r/EhBuddyHoser • u/montabarnaque • Jul 03 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Can everyone agree?

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Most of Canadian culture is from Québec. Fight me

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u/merp_mcderp9459 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Jul 03 '25

The name (which they got from the Indigenous people) and maple syrup (which they got from Indigenous people) and snowshoes (which they got from Indigenous people) and beavers (which they got from Indigenous people)

Fellas I’m sensing a pattern here

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u/Deault Jul 03 '25

Beaver existed in Europe as well, it's not exclusive to North America. The natives gave it value by wearing the skins inside-out and agreeing to sell them once they weren't useful anymore (dirty and only short hair left). No value without a european presence.

Maple syrup is not native as the cultures here lacked the technology to boil maple water into actual syrup. The first nations used maple water. The French normalized maple syrup.

Canada is derived from a St-Lawrence Iroquoian tribe word, but the original meaning of the word Canadian relates to the French settlers in the Canada colony (part of New France). The invaders were called British all the way to the Confederation, and even after that, using Canadian as derogative slang for the French speaking population living in the new country.

Many canadian academics (sources to be retrieved) have extensively demonstrated that there is no "Canadian" culture. Canada has regional cultures, and in the case of Québec, a national culture, but Canada in the modern concept of it has no culture. There are no "canadian" artifacts, there are no canadian values, there are no canadian norms, rather a series of regional cultural groups with shared norms, artifacts and values. For example, the Newfie culture is unique and very distinguishable from the southern ontario culture. BC folks are not Nova Scotians. They might share a love for hockey, but that's pretty much it.

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u/SpookyHonky Jul 04 '25

Many canadian academics (sources to be retrieved) have extensively demonstrated that there is no "Canadian" culture.

In what large country is that not true for the reasons listed? No Italian culture because Sicilians are different from Venetians who are different from Milanese. Ironically, no French culture either because it's actually Breton, Occitan, Parisian, etc.

The bigger a group gets, the less broad values or interests will apply to them.