Adderbox76 , 1 month ago

One of my professors said something that always stuck with me.

Canada is a mosaic. America is a meting pot.

(Yes I know he didn’t coin the phrase). But he was the first who sort of explained it in a way that I truly understood.

In a multicultural America, you’re American first, ethnicity second. The impetus is to conform with the dominant culture and pretty much just keep your ethnic culture in your own home and own small communities.

Here in Canada, we are a mosaic. Every culture contributes the best (and worst) parts of their culture/heritage to the whole. There is no “Canadian” default culture. Its just a blend of everyone who comes to live here. **

**offer not valid in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.