Popular Culture Analysis

Canada’s popular culture is a little different than that of the United States. Canada seems to emphasize on nature and the effects of humans in nature. The book defines popular culture as a, “reflection of everyday in the lives of ordinary people” (Holman and Thacker, p. 125). They also have a theme of death in their stories they tell. When the Canadians tell about nature they always capitalize on the dangers and make it well known that there are many dangers in this world. They also have a survival of the fittest type of mentality going on in some of their works. Canada is also really influenced by a more peaceful political system. The use of the prime minister's time to have a question period helps to let Canadians understand what is going
For example, we had to read “Death by Landscape.” The entire story was about a couple of girls out in nature at a summer camp. At the end of the story one of the girls had disappeared in the woods when all of the campers had gone on a canoe trip. They never see the girl again and there is some kind of mystery along with what had happened to the girl that no one seems to find out. This story had both themes I mentioned above that Canadians normally talk about throughout their stories. I say that they have both themes because throughout the story they are in nature at a summer camp, and at the end of a cane trip that they take with the summer camp, a girl goes missing and is never seen again demonstrating the death theme. “Canadian literary and popular culture has always been influenced by the presence (and often threat) of external ‘other’” (Holman and Thacker, p. 128). I think that every time Canadians speak about nature there is some kind of death symbolizes the reality of nature and the dangers of it as well. “Canadian culture and culture industries have become notably reliant on the state for survival” (Holman and Thacker, p. 128). Yet Canadians think that nature is peaceful as well. I think the relationship between humans and the environment in the Canadian works is a love hate relationship. I think Canadians love
With that being said, it truly shows that Canadians identify their environment to be more or less survival of the fittest. “Canadian literature often focuses on physical survival against hostile elements” (Lecture 21, slide 5). This goes to show not only do Canadians think about their own survival in nature when thinking about their identity, but they also think about the climates and how it affects their identity. The identity of Canada is shown in the short story “As Birds Bring Forth the Sun.” This story shows more or less the survival part of how Canadians identify with their environment. The story shows the hostility of animals in the wild and the miscommunication among the father and the pup that the father had nurtured earlier in the story. I always see in the stories that I have read, some kind of death. It gives the identity of Canadians environment and nature a sense of danger and fear of the