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Condemned to rootlessness: the loyalist origins of Canada's identity crisis
Few observers have sought to explain why French Canadians, Metis and even AngloâAmericans developed a sense of indigenous ethnicity while EnglishâCanadians failed to do the same. Fewer still have sought to connect this to the national âidentity crisisâ often mentioned in the discourse of Englishâspeaking Canada. This article asserts that English Canada's perception of a âCanadianâ identity crisis is really an EnglishâCanadian one which has its roots in English Canada's Loyalist ethnic core. In contrast to most nations, English Canada never developed an indigenous ethnic core. Instead, its ânonâethnicâ identity, from its Loyalist beginnings, remained split. On one side was a repressed American folk culture, which outsiders used to recognize the EnglishâCanadians. On the other was an exalted set of British myths, symbols and narratives, to which EnglishâCanadians attached themselves. The pattern of EnglishâCanadian cultural history is therefore unsurprising: it involves a tension between American and British influence, with seemingly no exit. Thus the âCanadiansâ, deprived of a distinct founding people, were, from the beginning, âcondemned to rootlessnessâ
High-Resolution Point-Cloud for Landslides in the 21st Century: From Data Acquisition to New Processing Concepts
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