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Jul 12, 2013 · Artefacts containing national or ethnic symbols, such as flags and maps, are frequently used by 14-year-old youth in a multiethnic, suburban municipality in Stockholm.
- Layal Kasselias Wiltgren
- 2014
Based on a year-long fieldwork in a junior high school, this paper documents ways in which minority group students handle material artefacts and what these symbols involved mean to them.
importance placed on many Canadian symbols. Youth (aged 18 to 29) are less likely than older generations to identify strongly with such established symbols as the #ag, the National Anthem, the RCMP, National Parks and the National Capital; this reverses the previous trend between 2003 and 2007. At the same time, youth are also more likely than
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Summary for Lay Audience
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter Overview
- 1.3 Physical Forms of Forgetting
- 2.1 Breaking Away from Britain
- As ties with Britain began to unravel, however, Canada could no longer cling to its
- 2.6 Unity Through Division?
- 3.4 Marketing to a Multicultural Audience
- 3.5 “Stolen and Restored”
- Conclusion
This thesis uses Barthes’ Mythologies as a framework to examine the ways in which the Canadian nation has been mythologized, exploring how this mythologization affects our sense of national identity. Because, as Barthes says, the ultimate goal of myth is to transform history into nature, it is necessary to delve into Canada’s past in order to under...
Barthes, Canada, history, multiculturalism, myth, national identity, spectacle i
This thesis examines the many myths that have shaped Canada over time, exploring the stories, stereotypes, and symbols that we have used to represent our nation and ourselves. By tracing specific aspects of Canadian history, society, and pop culture from Canada’s earliest days to current times, I attempt to uncover the “true origins” of the most ta...
I would first like to express my appreciation for all the support provided by my co-supervisors, Dr Jan Plug and Dr Michael Gardiner; in particular, I want to thank Jan for encouraging me to write about Canada in the first place (a topic I admittedly found quite boring and unworthy of investigation, which is exactly why it ended up being such a fas...
My first chapter examines the earliest iterations of Canadian identity, employing Hall and Barthes’ notions of discourse and myth to track the many alterations, additions, and eliminations that Canadian identity has undergone up to contemporary times. To illustrate and focus my examination, I employ Michael Dawson’s The Mountie from Dime Novel to D...
This inability to confront our demythologized past is evident not only in the ongoing revisions to namesakes and monuments, but also in the general lack of concern for the preservation of physical markers of Canadian history. This lack of concern is a direct consequence of Canadians’ attitude towards our past; we do not want to conserve the outdate...
As my analysis of the RCMP’s history points to but does not directly address, much of
image as the “Britain of the North”; instead, the emphasis was placed upon Canada’s inferior status as a colony of the great British empire. This sense of separation and isolation would continue to grow throughout the nineteenth century, leaving Canadians feeling marginalized and victimized on a grand scale.34 As Mackey argues, seeing oneself as a ...
Since its earliest days, Canada’s identity has been constructed through a constant process of differentiation. This differentiation has been both external, from metropole and potential (American) invaders, and internal, between the many factions fighting for recognition and power. As a result, Canada has rapidly transitioned from a proudly- British...
Although signifiers from Indigenous and French cultures still feature heavily in Canada’s symbolic landscape, since the implementation of official multiculturalism and widespread changes in society – increasing awareness of Indigenous issues, rising numbers of immigrants, and the fact that most Canadians live in urban rather than rural areas – symb...
As Canada has proven time and time again, because there is no fixity in mythical concepts, it is possible to shift and adapt longstanding narratives to suit specific situations, to create an identity that can easily adjust to incorporate new elements as needed. This project of adaptation has been particularly ambitious throughout the last several d...
Throughout this project, I have focused on three key elements of Canadian myth that have been used over time to construct our national identity: our stories, our stereotypes, and our symbols. In examining how these three aspects of myth-production interact to signify and explain the idea of “Canada,” it has been my goal to disentangle nature and hi...
- Shannon Lodoen
- 2019
Students consider the promotion of Canadian national identity by assessing the success of individual and collective efforts to use symbols, myths, institutions and government initiatives to advance a national identity.
Every country has symbols that are key to national identity. The latest Focus Canada survey reveals that Canadians continue to place strong importance on a number of established symbols, but the strength of this identification has declined in almost all cases since 2010, after having previously been on the rise.
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Jan 1, 2014 · Young children tend to construct their national identity based on overt information, referring mostly to place of birth, geographical location (living in a particular country), language, and ties of consanguinity (Barrett 2005).
