Sunday, March 09, 2008
CBC: Only caring about the East for 72 years
According to CBC, you're not Canadian enough if you don't know enough about the East.
Out of a sense of morbid curiosity, I took a Canada Day quiz on the CBC site a while back. I managed to get every question right, by the way, so whoop-de-doo for me; I guess studying the same Canadian history every year from grad 5 through grade 8 finally paid off.
But you know the really interesting thing about this quiz? The nature of its fourteen questions. Here's a brief rundown:
Six questions on national trivia, such as the national anthem and who the Canadian head of state is. Five questions on national history, such as the role of the Hudson's Bay Company and what the first four provinces were Three questions on Eastern Canadian trivia, involving things like Lake Algonquin and Quebec bilingualism No questions at all about the West
Why am I not surprised?
Out of a sense of morbid curiosity, I took a Canada Day quiz on the CBC site a while back. I managed to get every question right, by the way, so whoop-de-doo for me; I guess studying the same Canadian history every year from grad 5 through grade 8 finally paid off.
But you know the really interesting thing about this quiz? The nature of its fourteen questions. Here's a brief rundown:
Why am I not surprised?
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It's similar in the US in some ways. Not quite that bad. But the textbooks are a little too politically correct. The Industrial Revolution chapter is just about workers' rights, ignoring the positives almost completely. It's a little strange.
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