“我们北方人”作为土著身份的剥夺和加拿大持久殖民遗产的口号

IF 0.3 Q3 LAW
Daniel W. Dylan
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作为美国职业篮球协会中唯一一支加拿大球队,多伦多猛龙队采用了“我们北方”的口号。这个新口号旨在唤起关于加拿大是什么或谁的历史神话和叙述。作为一种元叙事,这一口号象征性地假设了加拿大神话化的民族身份是明显的“北方”,在这个过程中,它显示出自己是加拿大平庸民族主义的再现。然而,它不仅如此:它是对一个想象中的加拿大北部,特别是因纽特人或真正的北方(土著)身份的挪用。像加拿大运动队的口号这样看似无害和平庸的东西,可以体现加拿大持久的殖民遗产。在加拿大,平庸的民族主义绝不是良性的,就猛禽号的口号而言,它剥夺了因纽特人的身份,是加拿大殖民遗产的持久象征。在试图概括想象中的加拿大民族身份并将其塑造成一种元叙事的过程中,这个口号挪用了北方人和北方土著人民的独特性,使他们成为北方人,并剥夺了他们身份的各个方面。
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“We the North” As the Dispossession of Indigenous Identity and a Slogan of Canada’s Enduring Colonial Legacy
As the only Canadian team in the professional United States’ National Basketball Association, the Toronto Raptors adopted the slogan “We the North.” The new slogan is designed to invoke historical myths and narratives of what or who Canada is. The slogan emblematically assumes, as a metanarrative, the mythologized national identity of Canada as distinctly “northern,” revealing itself to be a reproduction of banal nationalism in Canada in the process. It is, however, more than that: it is the appropriation of an imagined northern Canadian, and specifically Inuit or authentic northern (indigenous) identity. Something as seemingly innocuous and banal as a Canadian sports team’s slogan can manifest the enduring colonial legacy of Canada. Banal nationalism in Canada is anything but benign, and in the case of the Raptor’s highly appropriative slogan, dispossessive of Inuit identity and an enduring symbol of Canada’s colonial legacy. In the process of attempting to encapsulate the imagined Canadian national identity and fashion it into a metanarrative, the slogan appropriates the uniqueness that makes northerners and northern indigenous peoples what they are, northerners, and dispossesses them of facets of their identity.
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