Princess Jazz

So I'm currently in the Student Life Center waiting for Ridesafe so I can go home. I came from an Embassy Prayer planning meeting (which went well and was productive - yay!) and I figured I could wait in the quiet of the SLC and get caught up on some horrible but necessary Gerontology reading. How I was mistaken - the SLC is a giant party! There's some sort of festival going on which consists mostly of dancing from what I can see. But it's all good because it's beautiful brown people, in their beautiful Indian clothing, doing some very fun-looking dances.

It's so cool to be exposed to so many different cultures here at university. Growing up in my town, everyone was white. There was one black kid and one korean kid when I was young - and both of them were adopted by white families. Moving here for school was a bit of a culture shock, for two reasons. One - moving from the country to the city was a very big adjustment. But bigger than that was the shock of all the different looking people. Half my school is Asian/oriental, and another good sized portion are Brown. It's so cool to see the different expressions of their cultures; the food, the clothing, the languages. So Cool.

Anyone who knows me well knows about my love for immigrants. I think Canada is blessed to be so open to diversity. I've been thinking about this lately. how boring would our country be if everyone was just the same? It adds so much dimension to our communities and our country as a whole to have all the different cultures, not only present, but evident. It's neat that people can retain some of their own culture upon immigrating here. I know that if I were to emmigrate to some other country I would definitely want to hold on to my Canadian identity.

All of this rambling is just to say that I'm glad that we are the way we are as a country when it comes to the issue of cultural diversity. It's a cool thing to have a special unique heritage and to be able to celebrate that.