Every year for the holidays i go to my grandmothers house in Canada where my whole family is. I love going to Canada because it is so different from the states, the way people act , eat, everything. People say that out of all countries canada and USA are the most similar, but i see them so different. Every year me and my family celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah because my father is Jewish while my mother is Christian. I find it weird that we dont just celebrate Christmas because one is supposed to follow your mothers religion , but im my family i guess we want to make my father proud of his children by saying the prayers and lighting the candles every night of Hanukkah. A little more description of my holidays in Canada is that we went skiing, spent a lot of family time with the cousins, bowling, went to a couple parties with a cousin my age, and stayed at my uncles cabin in the woods for a couple nights.
This year was the first time in a while that my father came with my sister and mom and i up to canada since their separation , and since he was there it was funny because our usual Canada exertions were americanized. Its kind of a stereotype when families go skiing during the holidays, and my moms family doesn't really go skiing but when my father mentioned it , to make him happy we all went. So i think that that little trip to the mountains made the trip different then others.
Its hard to connect how my holidays connect to the "American Way of Life" because i wasn't in america, but i can say how its different from New York City. What i can mention is that the teenagers in Canada think that living in nyc is like a dream and how they all wish they were my sister and i , it was weird hearing that because i dont find it that way at all, i feel like i have everything that they have. its just the fact that they are in the suburbs in the middle of the country were they dont see a lot , everyone lives the same in the town i go to in canada and that in NYC theres alot of diversity compared to them. THis connects to the american way of life and that us americans may not realized what we get to experience until others from another country tell us what we have. It pretty much goes along with the saying " you dont realize what you have until its gone" .
That we dont realized what we have until we loose it or something makes us realize it . that kind of shows a "selfish- ness" in our way of living , that we dont appreciate.
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