HIS367H5 Lecture Notes - History Of The Jews In Canada, Utopia, Polish Canadians
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Arrived to vancouver when she was thirteen years old. At this time, you are extremely uncomfortable with your body. To become part of the community, she became the ultimate and thus when she connected to canada; she lost her culture of being polish. She feels like she needs to control the english language and has to know everything down and proper. She believed that she could only become a native canadian citizen if she can do that properly: she needed to recreate herself through language and her sense of who she was and who she could be. When she was in poland, she was supposed to be an established musician and she was robbed from this. On this side of the atlantic, no one cared about her ability of playing the piano. This was extremely important and was the social capital in poland: during the 1950"s vancouver did not seem as if it was a classical cultural pursuit.
