What is a Canadian icon?
Posted in Anthropology, Canadian Icons, Canadian Identity on Jun 15th, 2009
There are idols and there are icons. The star-making machinery that generates idols is familiar to us all from watching the spectacle of American Idol and its various clones, including Canadian Idol. Icons are of a different order. An icon is “a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol, especially of a culture or […]