Path: utzoo!lsuc!nrcaer!scs!sce!fear+loathing!richardb
From: richardb@fear+loathing.UUCP (Richard Brosseau)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Canada: one or two cultures?
Message-ID: <6664@fear+loathing.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 12:05:47 GMT
References: <615662921.9256@myrias.uucp> <568@UALTAVM.BITNET> <604@philmtl.philips.ca> <89Jul19.104948edt.18727@me.utoronto.ca> <609@philmtl.philips.ca> <6642@cognos.UUCP>
Reply-To: richardb@cognos.UUCP (Richard Brosseau)
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In article <6642@cognos.UUCP> rayt@cognos.UUCP (R.) writes:
>In article <609@philmtl.philips.ca> Michel J. Tremblay writes:
> 
>>I dont know how you can talk about 'our (canadian) culture' without using
[stuff deleted]
>>enjoy our 'vibrant' French Canadian culture.
>
>I believe this to be a mistake. I perceive the two Canadian cultures as
>being representatives of what has been termed the two `modernisms'. One 
>based on the modernism of technology with its deterministic and anitseptic
>scientific sense of progress (linear time), and the other based on a
>rebuttal of romanticism: idealized neo-classicism; history becoming a much
>more convolved circumlocution on recurrent themes. In the worst case, the
>former degenerates into sterility, the latter into triteness; the antogonism
>of the Canadian melange acts as a bulwark against such a degeneracy - WHEN there
>is some recognition of their complementary natures. Regrettably, the fracturing
>into an exclusive bipolarity which is being fostered these days threatens to 
>separate out the agents. No doubt the purists will be happy - until they
>recognize the long-term debilitating effects of their own particular brand
>of monomania.
>
>							R.
>-- 
>Ray Tigg                          |  Cognos Incorporated
>                                  |  P.O. Box 9707
>(613) 738-1338 x5013              |  3755 Riverside Dr.
>UUCP: rayt@cognos.uucp            |  Ottawa, Ontario CANADA K1G 3Z4


Say bro',

Could you repeat that in English (OR in French)?

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Richard Brosseau Cognos Inc. decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!richardb