Exploring Personal Growth: The Influence of Canadian Culture

This essay explores the profound impact of Canadian culture on an individual's personal growth and development. The author reflects on how living in Canada transformed their work ethic, promoting a better work-life balance, and shifting from a focus on hard work to a more efficient, technology-driven approach. The essay highlights the influence of the Canadian environment on fostering individualism, encouraging the author to embrace new friendships and become more socially independent. The author's personal experience demonstrates how cultural adaptation can lead to significant changes in lifestyle, mindset, and overall well-being. The essay also references the importance of maintaining a work-life balance and the value of adopting new innovative features.

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How Canada bought Change in Me
The environment where I was brought up and the environment in which I am living are
entirely different. My native place has several traditions and old school thinking that I used to
follow but living in Canada helped me to completely change by nature and grow for the better.
The environment of Canada helped me to live in a better environment and look for the better
prospects of life. Canadian environment changed my living standards and daily routine that
subsequently helped me to grow.
Initially, living in Canada changed my working style. As people of Canada prefer
maintaining a work life balance, due to which they work 5 days a week and do not drag the
office work at home. The companies of Canada provide health benefits to people through indoor
relaxing and exercising area etc. This helps me in getting motivated to complete the work before
time and relax in the time period left. Resulting in which, my working capacity was increased
due to other non-cash benefits. Also, my working pattern changed from hard work to smart work,
with the help of peers, I started using technology and new innovative features more than earlier.
Living in Canada gave me more time to think and make changes in my personality and
behaviour. Living in a different environment helped me to introspect my behaviour with the
trends present in that environment. Analysing the changes, I got time to focus on my strengths
and weaknesses and adopt the good features present in the Canadian environment. I became
more competent personally as well as professionally as it gave me time to think about the
capabilities and work on them (Romero, Laroche, Aurup, & Ferraz, 2018).
Change in the environment also helped me to change my lifestyle and live my life to the
fullest. I changed my conservative thinking and started living each and every moment freely.
Increment in the individualism aspect of the culture, people believes in focusing on their
personal strengths and living their life freely. As much as these people work hard, they enjoy
their life even harder (Miller, et. al., 2018).
I got new friends while living in the new environment. I also started making new friends
by my own, however, earlier I was too shy to meet new people and be friends with them. Change
in environment and friends changed my this behaviour as well.

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Lastly, I believe that Canada made me more socially stable and independent as well. I
started taking care of my needs and keeping a track of my work as well. Now I do not need any
other person to take care of me as I enjoy my own company. Thus, these are few changes that I
adopted while living in Canada.

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References
Miller, J., Snyder, G., Antoniou, D., Bitar, E., Garrett, C., Alcocer-Loredo, F., ... & Norman, G.
(2018). Hofstede’s 6 Dimension Comparison of the United Kingdom, China, Columbia,
Chile, Canada & the UAE. Copyright 2018 by Institute for Global Business Research,
Nashville, TN, USA, 149.
Romero, C. B. A., Laroche, M., Aurup, G. M., & Ferraz, S. B. (2018). Ethnicity and
acculturation of environmental attitudes and behaviors: A cross-cultural study with
Brazilians in Canada. Journal of Business Research, 82, 300-309.