Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!yetti!geac!david From: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: 'Free' Trade? -- culture (from "Amerika") Message-ID: <542@geac.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 08:12:34 EST Article-I.D.: geac.542 Posted: Wed Feb 18 08:12:34 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Feb-87 21:38:10 EST References: <12419@watnot.UUCP> <1469@hcrvx1.UUCP> Reply-To: david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) Distribution: can Organization: Geac Computers Intl. Toronto, CANADA Lines: 37 In article <8477@watrose.UUCP> bcpalmer@watrose.UUCP (Barbara Palmer) writes: >In article <353@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes: >> >>To the extent of having some shows about Canada, showing many Canadian >>produced shows (the recent Ann of Green Gables being and excellent example). > >If you really knew Canadian culture, you would know it's "Anne-with-an-e" :-) > >We are already invaded with American culture - how many people watched/are >watching "Amerika"? Who let them film part of this boring piece of propaganda >in Toronto? I agree with Jerome's posting - if that's what the States have >to offer us for "culture", who wants more of it? > >- BP OK, but in reading all these entries, the thought occurs to me that no one here has come close to defining ``Canadian Culture''. What is it? What isn't it? It seems to me that the comments recently made by Clayton Yiger (sp) were designed to get us to come up with a working definition of Canadian Culture. Think about it from their point of view --- we are sitting here saying ``you can't touch Canadian Culture or affect the Canadian Cultural Identity'' but we don't seem to be willing to supply a definition of what we mean by that. If I were the U.S. negotiator, I would be very lothe to enter into bargaining with Canada with that sort of black hole in my bargaining strategy. Anyone want to come up with a working definition of ``Canadian Cultural Identity''? -david- -- ========================================================================== David Haynes (utzoo!yetti!geac!david) Geac Computers International Inc. +1 416 475 0525 x 3420 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, CANADA, L3R 1B3