Lydia Muyingo examines why immigrants’ consumption of alcohol increases the longer they stay in Canada and asks if Canadian culture influences alcohol abuse.
“I want the world to understand that adapting to a new culture comes with many challenges including financial strain, social isolation and discrimination that may impact an individual’s alcohol use.”
Thank you to all who have followed along with my blogs throughout my time as an OpenThinker. I am writing my final blog at the airport, eager to see family for the holidays but anxious yet again about this ongoing pandemic. As we go into our second COVID Christmas, I wanted to leave us with […]
Content warning: human trafficking Thank you to all who have followed my blogs on the cultural influences of alcohol use. I hope you’ve had a chance to reflect on how your culture has shaped how you view alcohol. I’d like to transition and finally introduce another area of research that I’m passionate about and am […]
Content warning: Article links refer to reported instances of sexual assault Off the clock business meetings and excessive alcohol use rarely sounds like a nice combination. While it might be a little humorous to observe otherwise uptight colleagues release some steam or act a little silly, these types of meetings can lead to serious boundary […]
If you’re anything like me and most of the people I’ve talked to recently, you might be feeling a little jarred by the change in Halifax the first week of September. For the first time in almost two years, we are seeing mass groups of students on campus, in the grocery stores, on the streets, […]
For part 3 of my “It’s a Generational Thing” series, I interview a South Korean-Canadian about their perspective on alcohol use in their culture. It was interesting to see them mention a bragging culture around how much alcohol a person can drink, as this came up in my previous interview with a Ugandan-Canadian elder. This […]
For part 2 of my “It’s a Generational Thing” series, I interview an elder in my Ugandan-Canadian community. There were some similarities to my responses in my previous blog: we both emphasized the importance of alcohol in Ugandan culture, and touch on the taboo topic of women drinking. I also learned a pretty shocking fact […]
In my previous blog, I introduced a mini-series I’d like to write about titled “It’s a Generational Thing”. My goal is to highlight different people’s experiences and opinions on alcohol and the interactions with their culture of origin/generation status. The immigrant alcohol use research I’m currently working on unfortunately doesn’t allow me to report data […]
In sharing my research about immigrant alcohol use, I am aware that it can sometimes seem as though immigrants are being classified as one big unanimous group. This is incredibly false! For example, I am extremely interested in how an immigrant’s alcohol use can differ based on their place of origin or time spent in […]
Taking a serious look at our actions and acknowledging our flaws is challenging for most people. This is especially difficult regarding alcohol use where one drinker’s opinions of their own use can be entirely different from what their loved ones think. Here in Canada, we have a very open approach to alcohol…. Are you happy […]
It’s hard to believe that one year ago, the world turned upside down (if you know, you know). How could we forget those weeks of peak pandemic panic when finding toilet paper was considered a grand achievement and when the baking aisle was rid of flour, yeast and trays. (Are people still making their own […]
