Awarness of Others

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It is always interesting to take a glance into another individual’s life, especially when an individual differs greatly from yourself in one way or another. For my other-awareness paper, I decided to have my interview with my roommate Ryan Torresin, a Caucasian red-head Catholic (a double jeopardy in some ways, in that being he is both Canadian and red headed) in who is from Toronto, Canada. I chose Ryan because he is my roommate, plus being from another country creates for an interesting look into the perceptions and culture someone from another country possesses. Canada has a reputation for being overly friendly and passive, and what Ryan relayed to me through our interview shows this to be a relatively true stereotype, albeit exaggerated somewhat. Torresin shared with me his own unique cultural identity, values, and his perspectives.
Ryan Torresin grew up in the cold, and to my surprise diverse, city of Toronto. He told me how the town he lived in was populated with a wide range of races (blacks, whites, Asians), languages (French, English) and religions (Christian, Catholic, Je...

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