... the characters. The elderly people in the novel resisted changing, fearing a loss of culture and identity. The younger children, growing up and attending school accepted toward the larger social Canadian culture. The old people, Poh Poh and Wong Bak, never integrated into the Canadian Society, and were unable to accept the Canadian culture. They were deeply devoted to their native country and had to go back ... women all face a rather tedious search for their identity. The older women such as Poh-Poh and Fong Mei found the Canadian society to be one of the "demon- (Lee Pg. 120). In this...

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... fee of $975 on each adult immigrant to help pay the cost of the immigration program. Once they are here, immigrants have to adapt to a new culture and a new way of life. For them, the Canadian ways may seem strange for they have never seen it or experience it before and vice versa, their ways might be strange to Canadians. Children from ... is generally well supported. With the overwhelming number of cultural groups, in 1971 the Canadian government established a multicultural policy that recognizes the changing composition of the Canadian population. This policy acknowledges the contrib...

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... fee of $975 on each adult immigrant to help pay the cost of the immigration program. Once they are here, immigrants have to adapt to a new culture and a new way of life. For them, the Canadian ways may seem strange for they have never seen it or experience it before and vice versa, their ways might be strange to Canadians. Children from ... is generally well supported. With the overwhelming number of cultural groups, in 1971 the Canadian government established a multicultural policy that recognizes the changing composition of the Canadian population. This policy acknowledges the contrib...

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... these questions may be easier to answer. II. FEDERAL IMMIGRATION POLICIES AND OBJECTIVES Canada's current immigration objectives are set out in the Immigration Act Part I of the Act Canadian Immigration Policy  Designed to promote the domestic and international interests of Canada recognizing the need: 1. to support the attainment of such demographic goals as may be established ... afraid  If spouses come together, officer looks for wife to speak but could be from culture where deference to husband is automatic - culturally women have more difficult time asserting selves in patern...

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... culture because they have different beliefs and values. People from other cultures dream about their daily experiences and customs. Also, the meaning of the dreams can vary depending on their beliefs. For example, in Price and Crapo chapter, they mentioned how traditional Zuni of the American Southwest's dreams might have included both desert vegetation and Katchina rain gods, but not igloos. A Canadian ... is significant and meaningful, but perhaps more in relation to events and troubles in everyday life. It does not matter what culture you are from, dreaming is really nothing more than ...

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