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Canadian culture is nothing more than insisting that Canadians have a culture and trying to prove it constantly.
What is Canadian Culture?
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No Pamela Anderson? OUTRAGEOUS!
LesCanadiens
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Canadian culture is nothing more than insisting that Canadians have a culture and trying to prove it constantly.
Considering your avatar, your statement is quite ironic.
holiday_hawk
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What about Adam Copeland?
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1. Politician, Champion of National Health Care in Canada
2. Athlete who lost his leg to cancer at 18. Later began a cross-Canada run from Halifax to Vancouver. Had to abandon the run near Thunder Bay in Western Ontario after it was discovered the cancer had returned to his lungs. Millions of dollars have been raised in his name for Cancer Research.
3. Prime Minister, for whom the Airport was named for. Established the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
4. Doctor. Co-discoverer of Insulin.
5. Science broadcaster and environmental activist. His documentaries are a staple of Canadian TV.
6. Prime Minister, Nobel Prize Winner. Created the Canadian Healthcare system in cooperation with Tommy Douglas (who was leader of a another political party at the time), instituted the 40 hour work week in Canada, official Bilingualism (he was the last unilingual PM), and the first race-free immigration system in the world. Created the Canadian Peacekeeping Forces, which helped diffuse the Suez Crisis.
7. Hockey Announcer. Prolific media figure.
8. First PM of Canada
9. Invented the telephone.
10. Hockey player
So like, when was the last time it hit -40 in Nova Scotia. I'll give you a hint, your grandparents likely hadn't been born yet.
Cheezy the Wiz
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Doesn't sound that bad, really.
warpus
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sonorakitch
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Ummm...Alexander Graham Bell was born in the UK. He spent a few years in Canada and then became a United States citizen.
Why don't you replace Bell (who isn't even Canadian) with Neil Young? Or Dan Akroyd?
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Why don't you replace Bell (who isn't even Canadian) with Neil Young? Or Dan Akroyd?
~Chris
Evie
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Honestly, I don't think there is. From the very start, Canada has had a dual identity; and that has made it very hard indeed to form a single Canadian culture.
The geography of Canada hasn't helped. It's hard to form a cohesive culture between people who live in widely different conditions, and even harder when each of those people can find people a lot like them not far away at all : Vancouver has far more in common with Seattle than with Calgary; Calgary with the cities of the US great plains than with Toronto; and so on and so forth. This is even true of Québec, which tends to get along, as far as english-speaking people go, New England better than mostly anyone else.
Though I guess by those standards, we're not so very different from anyone else. There is no monolithic *insert country* culture; even what we generally call French culture is mostly really "Parisian culture" (and by that I mean, mid-to-upper-class White French Parisian culture), and what we call American cultures (the many things we call American culture) is variously Mid-West culture, and Californian Culture, and New York culture, which don't have much more to do with each other than Montreal culture has to do with Toronto culture has to do with Calgary culture has to do with Vancouver culture.
The reason Canada doesn't get away with picking one city and saying "This is our culture" is because English Canada won't let the French get away with nominating Montreal, and the French won't let the English get away with nominating Toronto (and Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton won't let anyone get away with anyone nominating either Montreal or Toronto)
The geography of Canada hasn't helped. It's hard to form a cohesive culture between people who live in widely different conditions, and even harder when each of those people can find people a lot like them not far away at all : Vancouver has far more in common with Seattle than with Calgary; Calgary with the cities of the US great plains than with Toronto; and so on and so forth. This is even true of Québec, which tends to get along, as far as english-speaking people go, New England better than mostly anyone else.
Though I guess by those standards, we're not so very different from anyone else. There is no monolithic *insert country* culture; even what we generally call French culture is mostly really "Parisian culture" (and by that I mean, mid-to-upper-class White French Parisian culture), and what we call American cultures (the many things we call American culture) is variously Mid-West culture, and Californian Culture, and New York culture, which don't have much more to do with each other than Montreal culture has to do with Toronto culture has to do with Calgary culture has to do with Vancouver culture.
The reason Canada doesn't get away with picking one city and saying "This is our culture" is because English Canada won't let the French get away with nominating Montreal, and the French won't let the English get away with nominating Toronto (and Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton won't let anyone get away with anyone nominating either Montreal or Toronto)
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Even when teaching in Boston (which paid his bills) he was still often found living and working in Canada. He died on his estate in Nova Scotia.
He demonstrated the phone in Philadelphia at the Canadian exhibit. He conducted the first distance call in Ontario. He died in Nova Scotia.
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Neil Young is better.
Evie
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Almost no Quebecers on the list, two people Quebecers loathe (Trudeau and Cherry), two people Quebecers would probably react with "Who?" (Douglas and Banting), one who's just a hockey player, if perhaps the best ever, but still only a sportsman (Gretzky)...
I could see Pearson, MacDonald (but Cartier is more likely), Suzuki, Fox and maybe Bell (if Quebecers even realize he spent a lot of time in Canada). The rest, it's safe to say, means nothing to Quebecers, or even worse, means very bad things to Quebecers.
It's safe to say this list makes it clear that there's no global Canadian culture :-D
I could see Pearson, MacDonald (but Cartier is more likely), Suzuki, Fox and maybe Bell (if Quebecers even realize he spent a lot of time in Canada). The rest, it's safe to say, means nothing to Quebecers, or even worse, means very bad things to Quebecers.
It's safe to say this list makes it clear that there's no global Canadian culture :-D
Must be frustrating that Trudeau is the greatest thing Quebec ever made
Well Trudeau and the poutine.
Evie
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And the rules for Ice Hockey
Zarn
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There is no single Canadian culture.
Is that in the Canadian Constitution?
And the rules for Ice Hockey
Is that in the Canadian Constitution?
Evie
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The rules for ice hockey ARE the Canadian Constitution :-D
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