Maintaining & Sharing your Cultural Identity: Through Education, Exposure, & Experience
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- Title
- Maintaining & Sharing your Cultural Identity: Through Education, Exposure, & Experience
- Rights
- <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
- Type
- Moving Image
- Creator
- Kalia Johnson
- Date
- 2000s, 2010s
- Description
- The video explores the cultural identity of Jose. A. Casanova, with a particular focus on how food serves as reminder of where he has come from. We not only talk about how food has shaped who he is today, but also the people who have influenced him significantly, including his mother. Over time, his core values have not diminished despite a change in location. Through passing on values from his Venezuelan culture and his wife’s Colombian culture to his children, he actively encourages them to be culturally humble and to embrace their diverse cultural identity. He does this by emphasizing that they are not just from one community, but they are from three: Canadian, Venezuelan and Colombian. He provides advice on the best way to preserve one’s cultural identity, so that one can maintain one’s roots and not forget where one has come from. He also stresses on the importance of helping others because having gone through the challenges that come with being a new immigrant in Canada himself, he realizes a little help can go a long way.
- Format
- Video
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Publisher
- Bridging Classroom and Community: Languages and Cultures in Action, Western University, Fall 2019
- Contributor
- Jose A. Casanova- a member of the London Hispanic Community
- Extent
- 7:13
- Identifier
- https://youtu.be/CrPfz1hYGjU
- Relation
- "IsPartOf" Hispanic Collection
- Rights Holder
- : <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.
- Subject
- Cultural practices that allow Jose to be more culturally humble.
- Temporal Coverage
- 2000s, 2010
