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This paper will present hockey as a Canadian myth. The term "myth" however, will have a particular meaning, defined presently. The discussion will include popular Canadian culture as well as the meaning of Hockey stardom for the players, young players emulating them and aspiring to the NHL, and the meaning of hockey myths for the general populace.

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This essay will examine this radical metamorphosis in the representation of Asia and Asians in Canadian context. Through an ideological and mythological analysis, the historic racist representations of Asia/Asians in Canadian popular culture will be interrogated.

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This paper looks at how hockey, arguably Canada's most popular sport, is so engrained in Canadian culture that Canadian identification with it begins at an early age. The paper points out how, along with Richard Gruneau and David Whitson, the authors of "Hockey Night in Canada: Sports Identities and Cultural Politics", Canadian youth over the decades have grown up with a fairly stylized and masculine ideal of the sport and its place in Canadian society.

Tags:gender, hockey, canada

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This paper examines the upsurge in the production of popular culture for mass audiences, with reference to the transformation of "Asian" subculture in Canada; from racist portrayals only decades ago, to their defining "coolness" today. The paper argues that the social transformation of the popular image of this non-western group reflects how pop culture is closely linked to economic power and globalized cultural production in the post war era. The paper explains that Canadian social historians have argued that the Canadian mass media played a critical role in the shaping of racist ideologies and stereotypes to exclude Asians from Canadian mainstream society. In conclusion, the paper shows that as Asian economic growth continues, it appears likely that Canadian pop culture will assume more and more elements of Asian popular culture in the years to come as the "coolness" of Asian culture becomes ever stronger.

Outline:
Introduction
Images of Asia and Canadian Racism
The Cross-Cultural Origins of Cool
Cross-Cultural Coolness and Economic Power

From the Paper
"Today Canada, and in particular its large cities of Toronto and Vancouver, are highly multicultural societies defined by mass media and integrated into the global marketplace. In this highly mediated space, Asian popular culture - from the Hong Kong action movies of John Woo, to the cross-cultural popularity of "bubble tea", anime and manga, to children's television programs such as Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z - has played a significant role in the shaping of our society. This fact is particular ironic given that, only a few decades ago, the popular image of Asian in Canadian society was highly racist."

Tags:popular, images, manga, anime, racist, multicultural, society

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One of the most fascinating aspects of the Canadian cultural identity is the degree to which government policy and free enterprise economic principles converge and frequently collide in the field of the mass media. In large measure this is a consequence of Canada's geographic position next door to the world's last remaining superpower and predominant popular culture engine, the United States. This paper explores how the Canadian government, in order to maintain cultural distinctiveness in terms of national identity, has adopted a range of policies that promote the Canadian identity in the mass media and restrict the reach of foreign media and foreign media ownership.

Tags:media, canada, culture

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This paper examines the issue of racism in Canada. The paper points out that, contrary to popular belief, minorities in Canada do suffer from racism; this is most notable in the workplace. The paper argues that the problem of racism in Canada is deeper than meets the eye and that the Aboriginal peoples experience the greatest amount of racism. Three separate studies on racism in the workplace and the results of these studies are summarized and analyzed. The paper concludes by noting that all three studies indicate that racism is more often directed toward minorities of color than other minorities.

From the Paper
"Since it is regarded, in Canada's very polite social mores, to talk much about money, it is not surprising that few know that "Foreign-born visible minorities earned, on average, 78 cents for every dollar earned by a foreign-born white Canadian". (CRR Web site, 2001) The nation is so polite, in fact, that only 7 percent of respondents to a recent questionnaire for a Statistics Canada survey reported experiencing discrimination or unfair treatment "because of their ethno-cultural characteristics in the past five years". (Keung, 2003) Among visible minority groups, however, 20 percent of those 15 and older said they had been victims of racism, an the more visible the group, the more likely they were to report instances of racism, with nearly one-third of blacks, 21 percent of South Asians, and 18 percent of Chinese reporting racial incidents."

Tags:racial, tensions, native, canadians, foreign-born, visible, minorities, ethno-cultural, characteristics

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This paper examines the legal issues emerging from the Steven Truscott case of the late 1950s, a case that broke new ground in shaping and shaking popular understandings of the Canadian criminal justice system. Particular attention is focused on social and cultural factors - especially attitudes towards sexuality and media pressure contributing to a rush to convict - as contributing elements to this case. Comparisons are drawn to a similar case in the United States at this time - the Sam Sheppard trial - to illustrate how this situation is not limited to Canadian law but, in fact, reflects wider social and cultural realities. Increasing anti-institutional sentiments in both Canada and the United States have contributed to a revisiting of both cases, sentiments that both cases also played a role in shaping.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Culture and Sexuality
Tunnel Vision and the Issue of Disclosure
The Sheppard Case, Media and Authority
Conclusion

From the Paper
"One of the major legal problems to emerge from the Truscott trial was one of disclosure or discovery. As the Daum story reveals, the culture of the 1950s - which placed much more faith in the honesty and integrity of law enforcement officials than today -allowed law enforcement officials to effectively bury evidence that may have been of assistance to the Truscott defense. Indeed, it may be argued that cases such as Truscott contributed to an evolution in criminal law in such matters: "Rules of evidence today oblige the Crown and the police to disclose all the relevant information they turn up in the course of their investigations" (Sher 299)."

Tags:criminal prosecution, wrongful conviction, Sheppard sexuality disclosure

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This paper examines the theories of Marshal McLuhan. Its content is focused on Asian influences on Canadian culture and the manner in which they reflect and illuminate McLuhan's theories.

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This paper examines SCTV in terms of Canadian history, citing that it reveals interesting aspects of Canadian popular culture. According to the paper, Lorne Michaels, the ex-patriate Canadian behind the long-running American television phenomenon of Saturday Night Live, believed that television satire and parody were the defining characteristics of Canadian popular culture. Michaels is also well-known for his frequent visits to Canada to "brain-drain" Canadian comic talent to the United States, with Canadian comic actors such as Dan Ackroyd and Mike Myers.

From the Paper
"[Lorne] Michaels was convinced that this knack for media parody had its roots in the cultural conditions of Canada, a country where everybody watches TV that comes from somewhere else, and watches more TV because it's so flipping cold most of the time. Canada is a nation of chronic, ironic, detached observers. . . . - Pevere & Dymond, Mondo Canuck Introduction Any discussion of influential television shows, in the Canadian context,..."

Tags:tv, culture, education

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This paper looks at the impact of Hollywood upon Canadian popular culture and in particular Canadian film making. The paper argues that while some good has come out of Hollywood dominating the Canadian market, there are a number of reasons why the Canadian film industry cannot continue to cede more than 98 percent of the domestic market to big budget Hollywood films. The following paper reviews the history of the American cultural penetration into Canada as a result of Hollywood and examines also how Canada situation is not unique.

From the Paper
"There is arguably no nation in the world that is more inundated with American culture than Canada - mostly because of its proximity, but also because of the fact that the two nations have always shared a common English or British heritage. The following paper argues that the dominance of Hollywood within Canada has brought some good - employment for individuals within the Canadian film industry, access to world-class technology and to world-class American talent - but it has also brought a great deal of trouble - not least of all, a reduced native interest (or ability) in establishing a uniquely Canadian film industry - and this trouble is something that Canadian leaders will have to continue to grapple with if they wish to carve out a distinctly Canadian popular culture in the twenty-first century. "

Tags:hollywood, canada, culture