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INTERNATIONAL CULTURE DAY Our school is proud to celebrate cultural (1) ___! Join students from 12 countries for a day of food, music and games. ✔ Learn a few words of (2) ___ from our guests from Seoul ✔ Taste dishes from (3) ___ Philippines, Japan and India ✔ Hear how our (4) ___ students overcame culture shock in their first year 📍 School hall · Starts (5) ___ 8 a.m., Saturday 15 November Don’t miss this chance to make friends (6) ___ all over the world!

Viet Nam is home to 54 ethnic groups. (1) _ make up about 85% of the population, but many smaller groups also keep their own languages and traditions. Most of these groups live in the mountains near the borders, (2) _. Every year, thousands of tourists travel to Sa Pa, near (3) _, to learn about the culture of the Hmong and the Dao. Although young people now learn Vietnamese at school, (4) _. Protecting this diversity is a way (5) ___.

Toronto is often called one of the most multicultural cities in the world. About half of its residents were born outside Canada, and more than 150 languages are spoken there. Walking through the city, you can hear Chinese, Punjabi and Vietnamese in the same street. Mai, a student from Hai Phong, moved to Toronto in 2023. At first, she experienced culture shock. People spoke quickly, the winters were freezing, and she missed her mother’s cooking. “I felt like an outsider,” she says. However, things changed when she joined a community centre that helps newcomers. There, she met students from Brazil, Kenya and the Philippines who had the same problems. Together they cooked their national dishes and practised English every weekend. Mai also volunteered to teach Vietnamese to children from Vietnamese families who had grown up in Canada and could not speak their parents’ language. Today, Mai feels at home in Toronto. “Living here has taught me that diversity is nothing to fear,” she says. “Every culture has something to give.”