"Roots" Nationalism: Branding English Canada Cool in the 1980s and 1990s
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, Canadian nationalists worried about the influence of the United States on Canada’s economy and foreign policy, and worked to promote and protect Canadian culture. This phase of nationalism is often seen to have come to an end with the election of Brian Mulroney in 1984 and the signing of the US-Canada Free Trade Agreement in 1988. In fact, Canadian nationalism did not disappear in the 1980s, but it did change form, moving away from cultural and economic concerns to take on a more consumer-oriented and branded nature, exemplified here by the tremendous success of the company “Roots”. With its liberal use of Canadian symbols — beavers, canoes, and maple leaves — Roots allowed Canadians to purchase identity and proudly display their country’s cool image to the rest of the world. “Roots nationalism” was a product of the globalizing world economy, of the growing emphasis on branded clothing and lifestyles, and of the particularities of the national crisis in Canada.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.002 | 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