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Cultural Foundations: United States vs. Canada
Canadian and United States cultural foundations are similar and yet they vary in origin, deference toward authority, and identity as defined by the media. The two use very different symbols for their cultures; whereas the United States symbol is the great melting pot, Canada's cultural symbol is the mosaic. (Seiler, 97) The United States melting pot gives one the image of diverse peoples coming together to form one great new culture. Canada's mosaic, on the other hand, gives one the image of a country whose diversity is not lost, but cherished. Though both of these countries which make up the continent of North America, were mostly settled by European immigrants, their beginning philosophies were very different, thus the difference in their cultural foundations.
The similarities between the cultural origins of Canada and the United States lie mainly in the fact that European immigrants settled both. However, the......
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