Word: canadianization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canadians not only import more from the U.S. than anyone else, but chronically worry that they import far too much for their own good-from U.S. capital to U.S. television, movies and magazines. Is the Canadian national identity so undermined by U.S. influences that Canada runs the risk of cultural and economic absorption? In the current International Journal, the scholarly, influential quarterly of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Harry G. Johnson, 38, a Canadian professor of economics at the University of Chicago, answers a vigorous...
Johnson is dismayed by the form that Canadian nationalist sentiment has recently taken, because it appeals to "the most undesirable features of the Canadian character. In these I include not only the mean and underhanded anti-Americanism which serves many Canadians as an excuse for their failure to accomplish anything worthy of genuine national pride, but also the small-town pettiness of outlook that is the shadow side of many Canadian virtues. Far from contributing to the growth of a stronger, more independent nation, Canadian nationalism has been diverting Canada into a narrow and garbage-cluttered...
...Canadian identity, says Johnson, is not nearly so frail as the nationalists think it is. "If it were true that economic integration leads to a loss of identity, how could one explain the survival of minority and regional groups such as the Scottish and Welsh in England?" Rather than hasten U.S.-Canadian union, argues Johnson, an even closer economic integration of the two countries would only improve Canadian living standards, and thus give Canada the means to follow its own political and social course...
With the help of the Canadian Department of Transport, the automatic weather station will be placed this month on uninhabited Graham Island in the Canadian Arctic. It is expected to work unattended for at least two years, transmitting by radio every three hours the temperature, barometric pressure, wind direction and velocity at its bleak location. Should a polar bear or an arctic fox come sniffing around, it will not be damaged by radiation. The magic fire will be underground and shielded from the world by three-quarters of a ton of lead...
...Unwarranted Harassment." Last week, persuaded by his fellow directors to face up to the facts, Colbert abruptly resigned all other duties with Chrysler to become chairman of the company's small Canadian subsidiary. Said Colbert in his resignation statement: "Having been the undeserved target of a great deal of unwarranted harassment, any personal desires on my part to continue to head Chrysler should give way to considerations of what seems to be best for the company...