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Originally Posted by softee
The closest thing Canada had to a countercultural scene comparable to Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco was the Yorkville scene in the mid to late 60s and then Rochdale College came along and made anything going on in SF or NYC seem uptight and square by comparison.
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Lmao, no, it didn't. Canada was uptight and square by a factor of 10x more than the cultural centers of the US were. Think of how much the hippy counterculture in the US changed the world. Enough said.
No music genres, art styles, ways of dress, philosophies, etc, came out of Canada's comparatively tiny countercultural scene. We can name tons of music genres, art styles, philosophies, etc, that came out of America's countercultural scene.
To claim that Canada's countercultural scene surpassed NYC's or SF is laughable historical revisionism. If that were the case, Canada would have more cultural weight than it does.
Name ONE cultural innovation that came out of Canada's supposedly fruitful counterculture. I'll wait.
Meanwhile, American subcultures and countercultures largely invented the concept of what "countercultural" meant. NYC and SF had the more prominent countercultural scenes for a reason, you loser.