Canadian Culture Research Paper

What is Canadian culture?

Culture is something we can only change the future of but not the past. Canada has a wide variety of cultural or a better word to use would be multicultural differences and people. If you look at the who the real and first canadians are, talking about first nation groups and people. Today there is Canadians with all the different heritage’s and backgrounds like asian and european, african etc. all of those people though have one thing in common when they decided (or their parents) to move to canada and live here, that is to become a canadian. Being a canadian is not about who you wish to be, but who you are and what you've become being from here or growing up here. Different people have different version of a canadian

culture, some people think of native people when they talk about canadian culture; some think of the dual language and maybe how Canada is one of the rare countries in which there are 2 official languages, (English & French).

What i think when i start thinking about canadian culture is all the years Canada has been under the british empire and how that has had a big impact on the country because even though canada is its own country now we still see the queen on our money and there is still a queen's representative in the senate which still shows we are not onehoundred percent separated from England, which takes it back to the culture and how was this country like prior to this day.Even though we all like to see the positive side of the story the Canadian culture has had a lot of bad in it same as any other culture of any other country; I'm talking about the assimilation, racism and in country conflicts in between

english and french canadians. First the British and French have pushed natives of their land, out of their homes in a way while arriving to North America and afterwards after too many deaths the assimilation began with residential schools which british used to “kill the Indian in the child” or that's what the government referred to it as, which is not any better than it sounds. When that wasn't enough the british and french have had its conflicts even though they all live in canada; and you can even still see that the conflict has never really stopped for good, French Canadians in Quebec still have been pushing to separate from Canada and even though they to this day did not make that happen, you can still see the irony in the dual language act which was created because french Canadians did not want to lose their language and/or culture.

So when you go to Quebec today you will notice people there will not be pleased if you try speaking to them in english and a lot of times they will refuse to speak english even though a majority of french Canadians nowadays do have at least some english speaking skills. When you're in any other province in canada you will always be able to get around even if you only spoke french. Must be that french nationalism quebec has adopted as theirs. I look at it as it's almost sad that French Canadians insists on being French before being Canadian. It made sense back in the day when Quebec was full of french that were just off the boat and have decided to stick with their heritage but after few generations of canadians in Quebec there should be more canadian nationalism than french. Also another thing is a lot of Canadians now days insists on bringing their heritage into the story, because in my experience talking to people about my background i often hear something like this; “i'm actually Ukrainian, mexican, French, polish etc.” it has always interested in why don't those people just make it so much easier on themselves and just say “i'm Canadian”. I personally would prefer that over being an immigrant but nothing i can do about that. Canadian culture is what we as the people that live in

canada have been following up on. Few examples like Canada day which is on july 1st, or remembrance day which is on november 11th, one day everyone has a red poppy on their shirt, these poppies are there to remind us of all the veterans and soldiers that serve or have served in our military