After living in Canada for many years, you still encounter cultural differences. Sometimes it's novel, sometimes it's ridiculous. No matter how many years have passed, there are always small details that will attract your attention.
What do you find most confusing about Canada Chinese?
Knowing it, netizens opened a building to count the local culture that they have not been able to understand for many years in Canada. This article includes some of the more novel angles from the forums to see if you feel the same way.
Panties are washed with shoes
Chinese generally wash clothes separately from underwear, we put underwear and underwear into the basin, apply laundry soap to protect the skin, and then rub.
But in Canada, people seem to throw their underwear directly into the washing machine? Even washed my shoes in the washing machine???
Think of something as close fitting as panties and shoes washed together... I feel scared.
There are so many animals, but it is not easy to become a "meal on the plate"
Some say that people and animals in Canada are "too harmonious"?
"Deer, raccoons, crows, squirrels, seagulls, etc. swagger shopping, haunt the road at will, sometimes may steal the fruits you plant, may also go to your house to eat, and even see that you are "unpleasant" will chase you to fight, such as Canada goose. ”
Indeed, Canada geese, with "bad attitudes" and "everywhere", were executed by the BC Parks Service for a "death plan" because their reproductive ability was too strong, what a good opportunity to "contribute to society"! Foodies are eager to try, but the water at home is boiled, but they learn that Canadian geese cannot be hunted at all, and they will be fined and even risk sentencing for personal injury.
Every autumn, B.C. can go to see the famous "salmon migration".
However, in the face of the "salmon" bouncing around, people can only dry stare.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) prohibits fishing during the salmon spawning season and calls for reporting poachers.
I can't eat a single one, and I have to watch the black bear on the opposite side eat happily, which is really a living sin.
Alas, even crab fishing requires a fishing license, and there are strict restrictions. For example, Dungeness Crab has a minimum catchable width of 165 mm, while Red Rock Crab has a minimum catchable width of 115 mm. A fishing license can only be accompanied by two cages, and a person can only catch 4 male crabs.
On the wooden bridge by the sea, it is common to see people carrying crabs in their hands and looking over and over, pulling out a ruler for a while, racking their brains for a while to distinguish whether it is male or female.
But it may be these slightly more draconian policies that protect Canada's natural balance and biodiversity.
Quarrel with Sorry
People have the impression of Canadians as friendly and polite, that's right! Even if it is a quarrel, say Sorry!
So some netizens shared that they saw people arguing on the bus, starting with "Sorry" and ending with "God Bless You".
I don't know how the passengers around me feel.
Canada's name features the word "practical"
I don't know if you feel this way... Canada seems to be a very simple country?
Take supermarket chains, for example, whose names reveal the unpretentiousness of functionalism.
For example, Save-On-Foods – "Save money on food"!
Canadian Superstore – "Canada's Supermarket"!
Fairway Market – "Reasonable Market"!
Of course, there are other supermarkets such as Walmart, Costco... But all American.
You see, all of a sudden "out of nowhere".
China's large supermarkets have a slight sublimation in their name? For example, "Carrefour", which focuses on a family joy, happiness and well-being.
"RT-Mart"? Lo and behold, the words reveal a beautiful vision of making a fortune.
Or "beautiful and cheap"? The meaning of good quality and low price also uses the rhetorical device of "palindrome".
Chinese the name of the store? It doesn't seem to be, haha.
"Patriotism" in the supermarket Canada Proud
Some people say that Canadian culture does not emphasize "collectivism" or "patriotism", and people pay more attention to their own little lives... At least that's what the Canadians themselves think.
But is that the case?
Beef, peaches, and milk in supermarkets are labeled "Canada Proud," and even Tim Hortons, who have been acquired in the United States, will be labeled with this label.
Some netizens left messages to share their experiences.
"I was walking around the Public Market once, and a big white sister asked the vendor: Is this peach from BC? (BC, abbreviated BC), the vendor said no, and the eldest sister immediately put it down. ”
It seems that the tsundere people themselves do not know that they are actually proud to be "Canadians".
The next time you visit a Chinese supermarket in Canada, when can you print a "China Pride", right.