Impacts of Living in A Multi-Cultural Nation with Physical Diversity

Topic: impacts of living in a multi-cultural nation with physical diversity
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0 hj - - marcialalonde.weebly.comEnglish from playmates and teachers. Before the Second World War, many Issei sent their children to be educated in Japan. When they returned to Canada, they were called Kika nisei (or Kibei in the United States). Most have remained bilingual, but many of the younger Nisei now speak Japanese with difficulty because English is their native tongue. My sisters and I arc Sansei (third generation); our children are Yonsei. These generations, and especially Yonsei, are growing up in homes where English is the only spoken language, so they are far more likely to speak school-taught French as their second language than Japanese.
Most Sansei, like me, do not speak Japanese. To us, the Issei are mysteries. They came from a cultural tradition that is a hundred years old. Unlike people in present-day Japan, the Issei clung tightly to the culture they remembered and froze that culture into a static museum piece like a relic of the past. Not being able to speak each other's language, Issei and Sansei were cut off from each other. My parents dutifully visited my grandparents and we children would be trotted out to be lectured at or displayed. These visits were excruciating, because we children didn't understand the old culture, and didn't have the slightest interest—we were Canadians.
My father's mother died in 1978 at the age of ninety-one. She was the last of the Issei in our family. The final months of her life, after a left-hemisphere stroke, were spent in that terrible twilight— crippled, still aware, but unable to communicate. She lived the terminal months of her life, comprehending but mute, in a ward with Caucasian strangers. For over thirty years I had listened to her psychologically blackmailing my father by warning him of her imminent death. Yet in the end, she hung on long after there was reason to. When she died, I was astonished at my own reaction, a great sense of sadness and regret at the cleavage of my last link with the source of my genes. I had never been able to ask what made her and others of her generation come to Canada, what they felt when they arrived, what their hopes and dreams had been, and whether it was worth it And I wanted to thank her, to show her that I was grateful that, through them, I was born a Canadian.TOPICS FOR EXPLORATION
1. Why does David Suzuki question the validity of the "biological connection" in determining individual identity? How does environment override genes?
2. Although Suzuki resembles them physically, he cannot communicate with his relatives in Japan. He is agaijin (a foreigner). How does being agaijin exclude Suzuki? Why is he rejected at a ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn)?
3. What are some cultural practices of Japan that Westerners misunderstand? Find examples in this account of mutual incomprehension based on cultural differences.
4. How have the different generations of Japanese-Canadians responded to the experience of the new land? How do people of Suzuki's generation (Sansei) view their immigrant ancestors (Issei)? Why are the hopes and motives of Issei still a "mystery" to Suzuki?
5. Why does Suzuki feel caught between two cultures when, as a Canadian, he visits Japan?
6. Suzuki takes a pragmatic stance on the question of immigrants' adaptation to life in their new country. Do you agree that Suzuki's assimilation—which might be called cutting off the "link with the source of one's genes"—is part of his process of becoming "Canadian"? How typical is the model represented by Suzuki's family?Pens of Many Colours: A Canadian Reader, 2nd Ed., Eva C. Karpinski (editor) pg.284Anne Jew
Anne Jew is an English graduate of the University ofBritish Columbia. She has published fiction and criticism in many journals, anthologies and newspapers. Her film work has been produced by the