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Record W4408891949 · doi:10.1080/27708888.2025.2482146

The paradoxical United States in English Canada’s 1968

2025· article· en· W4408891949 on OpenAlexaffabout
Stephen Azzi

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Global Sixties · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical sciencePsychologyHistory

Abstract

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English-speaking Canadians seemed largely removed from the dramatic international upheavals of 1968. The events of that year in English Canada bore faint resemblance to what was unfolding elsewhere: no general strikes paralyzed Canada; police did not fire on peaceful protestors; assassins did not shoot prominent figures; riots did not erupt in cities; tanks did not roll through the streets. Canada’s 1968 was, in part, a Canadian affair, reflecting the country’s distinctive history and culture. But in English Canada, 1968 was less a national phenomenon than a North American one. English Canadian radicals were less inclined to rebel against the domestic establishment than against the United States, often echoing the arguments and ideas of their American counterparts. English Canadians occupied a peripheral position within the broader North American context, meaning that protests were milder in Canada than south of the border. Canadians reacted with horror to what they saw in the United States, but at the same time they reflected American thought. Canadians have long defined themselves in opposition to their southern neighbor, but 1968 revealed that much of their critique of the United States came from Americans themselves.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.638
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.226
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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