Passover Differences In Popular Culture

After receiving the topic of this paper I knew there was only one person I wanted to interview. I choose Lola because I have never met anyone who fully embodied her beliefs and culture the ways she does. Besides that, Lola’s culture and childhood were drastically different from my own upbringing, and I was curious to see how different they were. As a Catholic-American who grew up in Mid-West, Lola’s French-Canadian and Jewish heritage offered a window into two cultures I knew little to nothing about. When comparing religions, the initial point of conflict that I think about is religious holidays. In Lola’s case her favorite Jewish holiday is Passover. To her what made Passover special was the long and interesting history and rituals associated with it. A Passover ritual reading a smaller version of the Torah, their religious book, which focuses on the stories of Jewish enslavement in Egypt. Some of the traditions include eating certain food that has a symbolic meaning such as Harosets, which represent the mortar used by the slaves in Egypt, and they also dip most food in salt water to symbolize the tears they had when they left Egypt. Lola’s favorite part of Passover is how …show more content…
Canada is a commonwealth country and still has symbolic ties to Britain. For example, in Canada the celebrate Victoria Day, which is the Queen of England’s birthday. Canadians still symbolically recognize the royalty in Britain and their official government is classified as a Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy. The Queen is also still on Canadian money, another symbolic tie to Canada historically being a British colony. As mentioned before Canadians have less of a patriotic sense than in the US and that translates to Canada Day, the Canadian version of the Fourth of July. Lola told me that Canada Day is not a very big deal since Canadians focus more on their heritage rather than being