ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: English Canada

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Ivan Kalmar

Document Summary

An economic unit: typically encourages the movement of goods and labor within the borders, and protects it against trade across the borders. Canadian multiculturalism: an experiment in the benign management of forces that threaten unity (not directly about economics, it"s about everything in that the nation is something that projects homogeneity but there are forces against it- different ethnic growth) Multiculturalism is used to create national unity in (mainly) english canada. But ordinary language shows that not everyone is equally canadian. (cid:862)ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374)(cid:863) as used i(cid:374) o(cid:396)di(cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:455) la(cid:374)guage= a (cid:373)atte(cid:396) of deg(cid:396)ee. The question is normally not about citizenship. I(cid:373)(cid:373)ig(cid:396)a(cid:374)t (cid:272)itize(cid:374)s: (cid:862)ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ot, depe(cid:374)di(cid:374)g o(cid:374) the (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t. Legal citizenship and practical citizenship: not necessarily the same. Lacrosse and hockey as a canadian national sport. Nations defined by ethnicity and ethnicity defined by common language. National identity in some european areas preceded the national state.