Canadian Culture: Ironyczan And Linda Hutcheon

The stereotypical idea of the canadian irony is broken down then brought to the attention of Shane Koyczan and Linda Hutcheon. The essay that Linda Hutcheon published, talks about the irony in the Canadian culture and how not only the Americans, but the whole world interpret the Iconic Canadian culture. People such as Irving Layton say, “Canadians lack identity and that we would do anything to give us some sort of recognition.” Many canadians would agree that is unfair to think that way, however Linda Hutcheon talks about how irony is such a useful but complicated tool, “...irony can have at least two possible functions:deconstructive and constructive…”(5). Shane Koyczan briefly goes over identity within his poem, “we put a god in everything and those gods would give our reasons.” most people look for meaning in almost anything and look for multiple ways that it could help define themselves, like canadians they use irony to help define themselves. Many

Linda hutcheon states that ,”its history offers binary opposition: Native/colonial, Federal/provincial, not to mention English/French.” Canada's history is more passive aggressive from time to time. One of the bigger stereotypes that people have on canadians is that we are nice all the time, This isn't completely true but canadians do like to make jokes about other countries because it what has been done for a long time. In the “shoulders” poem Shane Koyczan says ,” we are facing crisis” this is true, us as humans are facing a huge crisis known as “Pollution”. Pollution is growing faster than humans can stop it and as shane koyczan says in his poem ,” we only have one earth, there is no reset button.” the people responsible for all this isn't just one country or the next, it's all of us. All over the world there is pollution and humans don't care, or try to stop