The Citizen, 2010-12-23, Page 21THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2010. PAGE 21.
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also celebrate Dec. 26 as St.
Stephen’s Day. St. Stephen was the
first Christian Martyr, and the date is
marked with feasts and traditional
songs.
New Year’s Day is also a different
celebration in South Korea, and
most other Asian countries
according to Oh.
“New Year’s Day is called ‘seol-
nal’,” Oh said. “It is one of the
biggest holidays celebrated in Asian
countries. It celebrates the
beginning of a new year.”
Oh explained that, because they
follow the lunar calender, the date of
the new year can fall anywhere
between January and February.
Korean people wear Han-Bok, a
traditional garb, and visit their
family, where they perform a
religious service to their ancestors
and prepare traditional foods.
“Then everyone in the house
should vow to wish for good health
for each other for the year,” Oh said.
Families then have a traditional
Korean dish called Dduk-Kuk,
which is a rice cake with soup, and a
traditional winter drink called sik
hye.
“Sik hye is a concoction of rice
and water,” Oh explained.
Oh said that adopting most of the
Christmas staples of Canada was
easy, as they were very similar to
those practised in South Korea, but
still looks forward to the family time
that he feels was more a part of
Korean Christmas than it is here.
He looks forward to seeing his
sons, David and Harry, come back
home from their job and school
respectively.
“David lives in Mississaugua and
Harry is starting his Master’s in
Chemical Engineering at the
University of Waterloo,” he said.
“We are looking forward to them
coming home for the holidays.
We’re going to have a good time.”
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Hank and Aggie stated that if they
could bring one thing back from
their celebration of Christmas, it
was the time they spent with their
family.
Both stated that Christmas had
changed drastically over the years,
and that when they were young,
there was no television, cars and
fuel were a luxury, and Christmas
(and the St. Nicholas’ birthday) was
about family.
The couple said that walking to
visit relatives was one of the
highlights of the event, and wish
that they could do it more.
Hank stated that he remembers
being “happy with the littlest
things”.
“The niceness seems to be going
out [of Christmas],” Aggie said. “It
was a lot more simple then, and it
was about family. People weren’t
worried about gifts, you were glad
about getting an orange.”
Christmas time was family time
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Everyone welcomes and shares.”
Kugba-Nyande explained that,
while Christianity isn’t the primary
religion in Sierra Leone, many
people in the country celebrate it
anyway.
“Christmas is a family reunion
and a community reunion,” he said.
“We celebrate and the Muslims
participate, they cook and eat and
join us.
“When it is time for the Muslims
to celebrate, we join in with their
celebrations.”
Kugba-Nyande travelled to
Canada due to a war among the
rebels, military and civilians in
Sierra Leone in 2000. The war
began in 1991 and ended a year after
Kugba-Nyande travelled to Canada,
in 2001.
For Kugba-Nyande and his
family, their first Christmases in
Canada were difficult, as they had
come to the country empty-handed
after their house and most of their
possessions were destroyed in the
fighting.
He and his family have adopted
many of the Canadian Christmas
traditions since arriving here since
many of them are quite similar,
however he looks forward to
returning home to Sierra Leone, and
arriving in the middle of the week of
celebration.
“I will be going back on Dec. 26,”
he said. “I’m looking forward to
eating the chicken, playing soccer
and enjoying the social nights and
dancing.”
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Continued from page 20Lee’s wife, Judy, is Canadianborn, and followed more traditional
Christmas celebrations, he said.
Lee’s family, having moved just
after the war, didn’t place a high
priority on decorating.
“She’s more into the decorations
and traditional celebrations,” hesaid. “The intense decorations weresomething we had to negotiate.
I was used to something
different.”
Traditions for the Lee children
came from both side of the family
though, as Chris’ pillowcase-
instead-of-stockings practice wasused by his sons.Lee says that Christmas now, more
than ever, is a time to be thankful for
his family and where he was raised.
“Christmas time was a time to be
grateful for where I was raised, and
now, with a bigger family, I believe
that even more,” he said. “We live insuch a neat place to raise a family.”Lee said that one of the best
presents he receives now is due to
his family’s migration during his
youth.
“The best part of Christmas now is
when I get to see how happy my
parents are at Christmas because oftheir choice to immigrate in 1956with nothing more than suitcases”
he said. “They’re happy with seeing
all the kids running around and
playing because it is a product of
their decisions.”
Decorations negotiated with wife over time; Lee