The book "The Amazing Absorbing Boy" by Rabindranath Maharaj reveals the diversed culture in Canada and Canadians' open minds. The diversed culture is shown when the main character, Sam, walks into the Coffee Time and meets his new friends there. Those people in the coffee shop he becomes friends with are from different cultural backgrounds. They are from Japan, europe and some other countries. It's amazing that there are so many different cultures within a small coffee shop in Toronto. Just like someone said in the book,
"Just cross the street and you are in a completely different country. Everyone's here."
What surprises me is, when the group of people in the coffee shop first met Sam, they are curious about Sam, but they never isolate Sam because he's new to Canada and has a different background. This isn't common in some other countries outside of Canada. Although Sam acts and thinks differently compared to other people in the group, nobody asks Sam to change his way of doing things. Instead, they've always accepted Sam as who he is and get alone well with him well. From the way people interact with each other we can tell Canada has a diversed culture and people are very open and welcoming to outsiders. The book also illustrates the welcoming side of Canada. There are many refugees and illegal immigrants living in poor condition in Toronto. Canadians don't send them back home but provide them free food, shelters, give them information about immigration. Even more, there are individuals who help these people in anyway they can. From this book, we can really see a welcoming, multi-cultural and open country.
The diversed culture is shown when the main character, Sam, walks into the Coffee Time and meets his new friends there. Those people in the coffee shop he becomes friends with are from different cultural backgrounds. They are from Japan, europe and some other countries. It's amazing that there are so many different cultures within a small coffee shop in Toronto. Just like someone said in the book,
"Just cross the street and you are in a completely different country. Everyone's here."
What surprises me is, when the group of people in the coffee shop first met Sam, they are curious about Sam, but they never isolate Sam because he's new to Canada and has a different background. This isn't common in some other countries outside of Canada. Although Sam acts and thinks differently compared to other people in the group, nobody asks Sam to change his way of doing things. Instead, they've always accepted Sam as who he is and get alone well with him well. From the way people interact with each other we can tell Canada has a diversed culture and people are very open and welcoming to outsiders.
The book also illustrates the welcoming side of Canada. There are many refugees and illegal immigrants living in poor condition in Toronto. Canadians don't send them back home but provide them free food, shelters, give them information about immigration. Even more, there are individuals who help these people in anyway they can.
From this book, we can really see a welcoming, multi-cultural and open country.