Currently, as an immigrant in Canada, my whole life is being influenced differently by microsystem . The greetings of the elderlies which was compulsory for me doesn’t hold sway over here in Canada at all. It is difficult for children to greet their seniors let alone greet strangers. If at all some do (greet), they do it with an annoying reluctance, as they continue to use such language as I will term offensive, given it informal nature like, “hi” to greet. Aside from this, teachers, Doctors, Pastors are called by their first names over here in Canada. When I started my nursing program at Bow Valley College, I found this a bit disturbing as students were calling our lecturer by their first names. Before I came to Canada, it was regarded as an offense and continued to be treated as such for student to have the audacity to call his or her lecturer by his first name. If one must call a lecturer by his name, it must be by his or her last name and must be followed by “ Mr, Mrs or Miss”, depending on the lecturer’s gender.
