The most outstanding features of Canadian culture!
Red maple leaf – a symbol of Canadian culture
The maple leaf is an image that can be seen anywhere in the Canadian territory. For the Canadian people, the maple leaf symbolizes their country's culture, strength and long history from the early 18th century. Over time, this symbol has appeared more widely: on coins, on the National Flag, the National emblem and even on Canadian medals.
Maple leaf on the Canadian flag (Source: The Oshawa Express)
On the Canadian flag, the maple leaf is not only aesthetic but also represents great national pride. Two red rectangles on either side of the flag show the image of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The white square in the middle is accompanied by the red maple leaf with 11 prominent peaks on a pure white background – symbolizing the entire Canadian people residing in this vast, fertile territory.
In addition, maple trees are used as a staple ingredient in the production of a specialty drink in Canada: maple syrup.
Behavioral communication culture: Apologies, thanks and frankness
Canadians are known for their politeness, lightness, and sophistication in everyday conversations. The phrases “Sorry” and “Thanks” are quite common in their communication culture, being seen as a daily habit. For them, apologizing does not mean that they are at fault, but it is respect – respect for the other person and respect for the conversation.
Starting a conversation with questions about your hometown, work, travel, or sharing about your culture are topics that will make it easier for you to win the hearts and minds of Canadians. They may quickly call you by your first name instead of your last name after just a few small talks. Don't be surprised! This is just a sign that they are increasing their openness to you so that you are more comfortable in communication.
Canadians are very sociable, friendly (Source: Immigration Lawyer Toronto)
Besides, remember to go straight to the main issue when talking, especially in transactions, negotiations, exchanges, purchases of goods. Circumstances will make your story less attractive, attractive and sometimes fail in negotiations because of the way Canadians communicate very frankly.
Clothing
Canadian traditional costumes were influenced by European countries hundreds of years ago. Currently, most of these costumes have been preserved in the Royal Ontario museum and McCord museum. Canadians have modernized their costumes in the fashion style of the world. However, the former traditional costumes are still worn on occasions with appropriate festivals.
The most popular Canadian clothing today is T-shirt and jeans. Canadians love light fabrics, cotton fabrics or thin jackets in summer and autumn. Winters in Canada are cold so warm clothes are the most important criterion. Therefore, they often choose thick and heavy jackets and sweaters, especially woolen knit hats that keep the head warm. Backpacking to Canada your indispensable these items if you come here to travel in summer and autumn.
Thick jackets and knitted hats are the typical winter wear in Canada (Source: dulich360)
Culinary Culture
Dubbed as the land of maple leaves and a country of many ethnic and multicultural, Canada is quite famous for its unique cuisine. It can be said that this is the place where the quintessence of the cuisine in the world.
Speaking of Canadian cuisine, we can't help but mention maple syrup, stone wine, lobster, elephant snail, rapeseed oil. These are all typical dishes of Canadians that nowhere else. Enjoying this extremely special cuisine will bring you quite a lot of interesting things!
- Maple syrup with pure sweet flavor is not only used to make traditional cakes such as pancakes, waffles, toast but also to make natural spices such as butter, sugar or candy, yogurt, cereals and many other products that have been consumed in many countries around the world.
Maple syrup is one of the specialties of Canadian cuisine (Source: HDVietnam)
- Icewind wine is a delicious and rare wine of Canada. Canada is famous as a country of winemakers. They constantly receive gold medals and high awards from the most prestigious international wine competitions.
- Lobster is the ambassador for Canadian cuisine. It can be said that this is the most famous delicacy of this country. Lobster is also known as the “seafood king” and is the pride of the Atlantic Ocean.
- Elephant's snout is a marine specialty bestowed by nature thanks to Canada's cold and clean sea environment. Elephant's snout is caught from offshore offshore sea areas with high quality and meticulous harvesting and packaging processes.
Elephant snail dish is very popular in Canada (Source: giadinh)
- Rapeseed oil is one of Canada's most valuable products with an annual export value of over $3 billion worth of rapeseed oil, seeds, and dried oil. Rapeseed oil with a light, tasty, and very healthy color and flavor is an ingredient that everyone, especially students, office workers can not ignore.
Culture and Sports
This is an aspect that is less noticeable in this country but actually Canadians are very athletic.
Baseball is an old sport and one of the most popular in Canada. The oldest baseball park in the world – Labatt Park, is still in operation in Ontario.
Football in Canada originated with rugby and has since evolved into Canadian football with completely different forms and rules than are generally practiced in the world.
There is also Lacrosse, which was declared the national sport of Canada in 1859.
Hockey is Canada's national sport (Source: 360connect)
The Land of Festivals
Canada is known as the country of festivals. Every time of the year, in each region, there are festivals with their own cultural characteristics, showing a lot of beautiful traditions of the country in North America. The festivals held here are often very vibrant, colorful and attractive to domestic and foreign visitors.
- Heritage Festival in Hanoi
The Heritage Festival, which is an international festival involving more than 80 different cultures, is held annually in August and lasts for three days.
Here, Canadian immigrants exchange and introduce their cultures in showcases/food courts or performance venues featuring the typical dances of the provinces. Through these types, visitors can better understand the uniqueness of Canada.
This traditional festival has a very special meaning because it not only brings valuable knowledge about the diverse culture with the people living in the area but also an opportunity for visitors to learn and enjoy vivid images and sounds.
Heritage Festival in Canada (Source: CTAVN Study Abroad)
- Fireworks Competition (Celebration of Light)
If you are the type of person who is fascinated by the light of the sparkling, brilliant fireworks, you should not miss this festival of fireworks competition Celebration of Lights. This is one of the most prestigious and international events, taking place at City of Vancouver Canada on July 25th every year and lasts for four days.
Visitors will be amazed by the attraction, variety and uniqueness of the magnificent, fanciful, colorful fireworks displays that last for 25 minutes. Each year, this fireworks competition festival attracts more than 400,000 visitors to attend, contributing to making the routes of Vancouver more exciting, fun and bustling.
Celebration of Light is a festival not to be missed in Canada (Source: Flickr)
- Quebec Winter Carnival
Quebec Winter Carnival is considered the largest winter festival in the world. The festival is held in late January and early February and lasts for 2 weeks. Are you a devotee of the cold winter? So this time is an opportunity for you to enjoy the cold weather and participate in the festival when traveling to Quebec, Canada.
The festival has a lot of interesting activities such as skiing, snowman, ice sculpture, snow bathing, giant football, outdoor movie ... Especially, visitors will admire the ice palace built of extremely ornate carved snow here.
The Quebec Winter Carnival has a great human meaning, showing the immortality and resilience to the harshness of the cold weather in every person living in Quebec, Canada.
World's Largest Winter Festival in Quebec, Canada (Source: Travel Manitoba)
- Tulip Festival
When it comes to Canada, one can't help but mention the Tulip Festival. The Tulip Festival is held in Ottawa and Gatineau with over 500,000 visitors each year.
The beautiful and magnificent Dutch tulip flowers sent to Canada along with millions of tulip trees grown in Canada have made it the largest tulip festival venue in the world. This is a traditional Canadian culture that began after the Second World War.
Tulip Festival in Canada (Source: Toplist
Hopefully the information and knowledge that Edu2Review provides above will be useful not only for readers who are planning to visit Canada but also for international students is preparing the necessary equipment to come to Canada.
Message to those who are planning to study in Canada: don't just plan to study in the future in this beautiful maple leaf country because experiencing the unique culture here is also worth investing in. Anyway, Edu2Review also wishes you an interesting and memorable journey.
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