ECCU 400
My family3/20/2020 During this time, I spent a lot of time communicating with my family through Facetime and other forms of technology. I decided to use this time to learn a little more about my family and where they came from, using this new knowledge and learning from my language profile completed in another course I learned a lot about my family heritage.
The main two cultures that my family is from is German and Ukrainian. Although, the main cultures are German and Ukrainian I am also Polish, Icelandic, Irish, and Scottish. My grandma and grandpa on my dad's side of the family, still take part in Ukrainian cultural things such as they attend church spoken in Ukrainian. Then on my mom's side my grandma speaks German, but doesn't attend German events that happen in the community. I began to think about our official languages being English and French. None of my family speak french even though it is one of Canada's official languages. I attempted to learn it in Elementary school and High school but has since lost a lot of my connection with the French culture as the people around me knew nothing about it. Knowing I have a lot of cultural identity in my make-up gives me an understanding that I do not know enough about my culture, and that I would like to learn
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