I got something I want to talk about.

Y'all listen here.

The time has come to end my feelings.

There's just so much confusion going down.

I'm not the kind to be complaining.

But sometimes you've got to stand out from the crowd.

Everyone's got their own opinion.

And you know, I show that life is my world.

Don't you come a-messin' with my world.

Well, I don't appreciate the fact.

Some people just can't see it hurtin' you and me.

It's my world.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming.

The topic of my lecture is

the Star Banner and the Ahrhornblatt, Canada's relationship to the USA

in a cultural perspective.

All the spiritual and social sciences tend to

understand each other as borderline, interconnected cultural sciences.

Neudeutsch, cultural studies.

Traditionally, the word culture means something aesthetic in German.

However, cultural studies understand culture as civilization,

as constant change, understood as a

disguise and a superposition of social, ethnic, political,

and other groups and power interests.

My lecture is, from a cultural perspective,

from Canada as the relationship of Canada's

second largest country on earth to the USA,

the only superpower left after the East-West conflict.

I'll pick up six points of view.

First, US is central to Canada.

Second, Canada and the USA are nations.

Third, Canadian identity.

Fourth, the unilaterality of Canadian interests in the USA.

Fifth, Canadian associations.

Sixth, multiculturalism and interculturality.

First, US is central to Canada.

In the USA, since the founding of the state in the late 18th century,

the American Revolution, there has been a dominant,

almost state-abiding culture, the Wasps, the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

By the already anchored principle of religious tolerance in the Constitution

and the now extensive acceptance of ethnic and cultural diversity in the USA,

that is, political correctness, the Wasp rule has been put to work.

There is a large, mostly white middle class left,

whose values and lifestyle have a strong attraction on minorities and dissenters.

From this majority in the American society, a centripetal force is, so to speak.

This is what Canada stands for, a centrifugal impulse.

Especially because of the Franco-Anglo-Canadian conflict.

A short history of the conflict.

The Anglo-Canadian author Hugh McLennan claimed in his 1945 novel,

Two Solitudes, Two Lonelinesses,