The Americanization of Canada

When the topic of Canada comes up among peoples, immediately the thought of ice hockey, the Mounted Police, and beavers comes to mind. In fact, Canada has truly lost its true identity that we once knew. It is slowly being assimilated and in fact “Americanized” in aspects of social identity, national identity, and cultural identity. First, Canada is being slowly “Americanized” in its social identity. When we talk about a country’s social identity, we …

…When the topic of Canada comes up among peoples, immediately the thought of ice hockey, the Mounted Police, and beavers comes to mind. In fact, Canada has truly lost its identity that we once knew. It is slowly being assimilated and in fact “Americanized” in aspects of social identity, national identity, and cultural identity. In conclusion, to put it slightly, both are “coca-colonized” meaning that Canada is becoming socially very fast-paced, industrialized, mechanized, and computerized.