Being Canadian: Personal Experience
Canada identities
Immigrants from numerous countries’ existence is a part of the nascent Canada which became a sign of Canada - Multicultural. The third or fourth generation of immigrants are indoctrinated with Canadian culture knowledge, so their ancestors’ culture are revoked in their daily life. Their appearances is the justification that many people read it as their identities which confused various people about to identify themselves. Immigrants’ identities are awry because of their evident look enslaved their freedom to become a total Canadian. Immigrants propagate the standpoints about identities and announced they are oppressed by the confusion of self identities. The term “culture” often conjures up large groups of people who have activities, attitudes, and attributes in common. And more often than not, the word is used to refer smaller minority groups within a larger society. However, this article remind us that units as small as a family or seemingly monolithic as an entire nation are rich with cultural identity and experiences that direct, define and distinguish its members within society.
DENISE CHONG
"BEING CANADIAN"
Denise Chong is a Canadian-born economist who worked for Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the 1970s. In her book The Concubine's Children (1994), she told how she rediscovered the courageous and tragic story of what her Chinese forebears had done so that she would be born and grow up Canadian.
It was the kind of story others - perhaps even she - would be told to suppress or to glorify, but, as Denise Chong argues here, only truth can add real nobility to our roots. Her speech, delivered during Citizenship Week, 1995, is a stirring appeal to honesty and courage - and to pride in the country all our varied ancestors helped to create.
I ask myself what it means to be a Canadian. I was lucky enough to be born in Canada. So I look back at the price paid by those who made the choice that brought me such
Immigrants from numerous countries’ existence is a part of the nascent Canada which became a sign of Canada - Multicultural. The third or fourth generation of immigrants are indoctrinated with Canadian culture knowledge, so their ancestors’ culture are revoked in their daily life. Their appearances is the justification that many people read it as their identities which confused various people about to identify themselves. Immigrants’ identities are awry because of their evident look enslaved their freedom to become a total Canadian. Immigrants propagate the standpoints about identities and announced they are oppressed by the confusion of self identities. The term “culture” often conjures up large groups of people who have activities, attitudes, and attributes in common. And more often than not, the word is used to refer smaller minority groups within a larger society. However, this article remind us that units as small as a family or seemingly monolithic as an entire nation are rich with cultural identity and experiences that direct, define and distinguish its members within society.
DENISE CHONG
"BEING CANADIAN"
Denise Chong is a Canadian-born economist who worked for Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the 1970s. In her book The Concubine's Children (1994), she told how she rediscovered the courageous and tragic story of what her Chinese forebears had done so that she would be born and grow up Canadian.
It was the kind of story others - perhaps even she - would be told to suppress or to glorify, but, as Denise Chong argues here, only truth can add real nobility to our roots. Her speech, delivered during Citizenship Week, 1995, is a stirring appeal to honesty and courage - and to pride in the country all our varied ancestors helped to create.
I ask myself what it means to be a Canadian. I was lucky enough to be born in Canada. So I look back at the price paid by those who made the choice that brought me such