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Drop Your Customs!?- Tuesday!

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Yo, good morning! It’s Tuesday, hope you’re all having a great one. I saw this headline yesterday: “One in four Canadians want immigrants to drop their customs.” So, I dove into the article, and basically, 25% of Canadians wish immigrants would ditch their outward appearances—turbans, hijabs, languages, the whole shebang. Religion wasn’t explicitly mentioned, but it was more like, ‘Do your religion, but keep it quiet.’

This all feels like part of the growing anti-immigrant vibe that’s been kicking around for the last five years, especially with the crazy immigration rates. But it got me thinking about this thing I read about how it takes three generations for a culture and its customs to fade away. When immigrants come to Canada (or America), the first generation brings everything—language, food, customs. The second generation still holds onto the language, understanding it and speaking it, though maybe a bit brokenly. By the third generation, the language is almost gone; they can barely speak or understand it. And by the fourth, it’s wiped out.

It’s wild, right? We were just celebrating my kids’ birthdays, and my mom does this thing called a “Sehaj Paath”—a religious reading of our holy scriptures, the Sri Guru Granth Sahib, from start to finish—followed by a prayer. She’s done it for all of us growing up, and now she’s doing it for her grandkids. But she’s getting older, and it makes you wonder: are we going to be able to keep this custom alive? It’s a huge time commitment and a lot of effort. If we don’t, it’s going to disappear. Even something like speaking Punjabi with our kids—they can understand it to some degree, but they speak it kind of brokenly. My Punjabi wasn’t amazing growing up, but we could always communicate well.

It just makes you think. These folks want us to drop our customs, and I’m like, just wait a while. You’ll probably get your wish. You see it with friends all the time; many are starting to worry about preserving their culture. You just gotta start, man! I know one in four Canadians wants us to drop our customs, but I say that means we gotta preserve them even more. We need to work harder to keep those languages alive, keep that history going. It doesn’t mean we’re against migrating here; it just means some customs are worth preserving. Preserve your language, preserve your foods, preserve some of your ways. Drop the bad, keep the good. Anyway, that’s what I’ve been pondering. Maybe you guys have better thoughts on this. Take it easy, peace!

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updated_at 31-07-2025
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