Thursday, 26 March 2015

Rethinking What It Means to Be Canadian

nytimes.com - This month, the Angus Reid Institute, one of Canada’s leading polling companies, published a survey that asked Canadians a series of nuanced questions about their national culture. But a surprisingly sizable minority of Canadians — 24 percent — said the country had no unique culture to begin with. In French-speaking Quebec, an even larger chunk of respondents — 37 percent — said this idea of “Canadian culture” didn’t really exist.

“That’s a significant and notable finding,” said Shachi Kurl, a vice president at Angus Reid, who helped coordinate the representative survey of 1,525 Canadians across the country.

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