Culture and Country: The Role of the Arts and Heritage in the Nationalist Revival in Newfoundland
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Abstract
WHEN INTERVIEWED on CBC Radio (29 March 2003) during the Newfoundland Historical Society’s symposium on “The Idea of Newfoundland: nationalism, identity and culture,” the novelist Ed Riche made the point that nationalism is the toy of a St. John’s elite. For a man much given to sharp observation, that comes perilously close to a self-evident statement: nationalism is a leisure-time occupation so, ergo, it has to be the pursuit of an elite. It is not like skidooing or curling or bowling. It requires time and patience to read — or hear — involved papers, intense conversations, savage indignations. Leisure without pleasure. So too culture. Unless it has been certified by scholars and journalists — surely an elite — it has no existence. The dance of the Green Bay Sugarplum Fairy is only the footshuffling of outharbour youth until a Folklore graduate thesis discerns its ancient roots and its theoretical value. So, as this journal’s editor has pointed out, we have the paradoxical situation of Newfoundland nationalism being generally perceived as a “townie” (i.e., St. John’s) phenomenon which is based on the outport. I should make clear that my credentials for speaking on this topic are dubious at best. Though I once was written into a Newfoundland passport and held a Newfoundland identity card, and though my parents took one of the last convoys out of England in 1945 so that I might be a Newfoundlander born, I can only claim a very distant connection with the fishery or with the bay. I am a townie, born of farmers, carters, shopkeepers and merchants and, narrower again, an Eastender, one of those St. John’s men whom the artist David Blackwood said were “always a misfit in Newfoundland, temporary, transient, exploitive.” Unable to vote in the 1948 referendums because I was out of the country — and may have been considered under-
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it