Cultural Differences: Relationship Between Canada, And Canada

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When reading and comparing the three different texts in regards to various countries: U.S., Ireland, and Canada, there were crossovers between all three, but also very important differences. When author Colin Woodard, in American Nations, spoke about the various settlements within what is currently the United States, he emphasized the importance of those different settlements and the individual contributions they made to the U.S. later on. In Irish Americans, author Jay P. Dolan decided to focus specifically on the history of a certain ethnic group and their vast and important contributions they made in the history of the United States. For Robert Bothwell, in his book Your Country, My Country, he spoke about the relationship between Canada and the United States and how their relationship would constantly change due to conflicts of war and revolutions. All three authors emphasized the importance of …show more content…
Dolan, Dolan speaks of the American revolution from the perspectives of Irish Americans. He saw the war less as an act of specific nations within the country gathering around and supporting one another, but more so based on country origin. In the case of Dolan, he spoke heavily of Irish American involvement in American Civil Wars and the Revolution. The Irish Famine migration group of Irish Americans, specifically, joined the armies of both sides in the Civil War. They joined both the North and South, but were still vastly underrepresented in terms of different immigrant groups fighting for the Union specifically (Dolan 99). To Dolan, it was much more important for him to emphasize the cultural background and country of origin of the people who participated in American revolutions. Unlike Woodard, he focused less on whether or not Irish Americans belonged to New Netherland or the Midlands or any of the other nations, but instead, of the shared ancestry they all possessed. To Dolan, that was much more important than anything