Canadian Culture Analysis

Being born and growing up in the cultural mosaic of Canada has helped me to experience culture in a few unique way. Firstly, as a Canadian, I try to spend most of my winters outside, tobogganing and playing hockey. While my summers are filled with festivals, farmers markets and camping in our national parks. I have also had a large involvement with remembrance day events. As a citizen of Winnipeg, I try to immerse myself in the diversity of the city. For me that means spending time with friends who identify with multiple cultures, ethnicities and religions. This has helped me learn about a wide range of cultural values that have helped me gain an insight on how complex culture is. Although I primarily identify with Canadian culture, a big influence of

The segregation cause my family to be considered ‘people of color’ which meant they did not have dark enough skin to ‘fit’ into the category of ‘black people,’ nor being light enough to be considered ‘white people.’ This positively affected my families background with culture, as South Africa is also very multi-cultural, which allowed them to experience a diversity of values, that were passed on to me. However, this negatively effected them also as they were not welcome to identify with the cultures they learned about which ultimately influenced their decision to leave. This has effected the culture I experience now as my family decided to embrace the countries culture that they were most welcomed in, which was Canada. Over the years, I have learned small bits of South African culture, from being exposed to the official language of Afrikaans, and traditional foods such as, Bobotie, Koeksisters and Vetkoek. Since my family has experienced different cultures within South Africa, I have also been exposed to different types of foods like Dutch, and Indian as well as languages like Zulu, Xhosa and