SOCI 3430 Chapter Notes - Chapter jan 25: English Canada, Social Status, Australian Bicentenary
12 Mar 2017
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He states that the australian bicentenary cut against the symbolic grain of an ethnic settlement myth, identified with british australis, by trying to convert the occasion into a festival of multiculturalism. Of course, this may show the need for a more neutral civic or political foundation myth, but the experience of canada and the. Usa suggests that such myths are essentially contested in multi-ethnic societies (hutchinson, This means that the image that is seen is more of a neutral civic and political foundation myth. Some similarities that are present in the reading by hutchinson are a flare of nationalism whenever the identity of the country may be undergoing some change. Another similarity the text mentions but doesn"t explicitly say is the fact that especially for. Usa and canada, there is a problem with the indigenous populations, which have been excluded.
