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Sir Lankan and Canadian Culture

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Culture is broad topic and every person and society defines in different ways, and culture is wildly diverse and they change over time according the place one lives in. It is also influenced in many ways by a person, it is influenced through one’s experiences of race, class and gender and physical environment. Every county and its provinces has its own culture and how it preserves it. In my experience from Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka is place where it looks and men and women in two different ways and men always had the upper hand in all situation in a women life. Women mostly lived depending on the men of the house where did could be the father figure, brother or husband. The mens were known as the strong and knowledgeable person and women will count on men for even the smallest thing like changing a light bulb or changing the lock in the door. In that culture women not only had the responsible to obey and respect the men of the family through out the life but she also had a certain standard that she has to follow in order to show the society that she was a worth full and respectable women. As the standards are the women should never wear a cloths that shows any part of the skin in her body above the knee, she wasn’t able to wear sleeveless tops or tops that shows there hips. women weren’t able to stay outside when its dark, women weren’t able to have friends who are guys and if the women did any of the above things than people will talk down to her and caller names. As in my case I had came from a the capital city of Sri Lanka in the age of 10 and when I lived there I was lived by those cultural norms and values and I was scared to even to talk to a boy from my class or to wear shorts when its 45 celsius or question what my brother tells even if I think he is wrong I always have to go through them. But things have changed over these few years after I have moved to Canada. As for this paper I am going to write about how coming to C

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