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Father Vathana Ean Interview

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The person I chose for this interview was my father, Vathana Ean. I chose my father because he has seen the changes that have happened in Canada for thirty years, he has seen the beginning and rise of technology, and has been using it for the past twenty years in his job. He has seen the slow shifts of society, the trends that have come and go, and the situations in the past arise again. My dad lived as a young adult in the eighites, an era showing rapid advanacement in technology and the rise of globalization. It was a simpler time, there was no internet nor cell phones, no computers either unless you were rich, and people were more connected personally. My dad participated in many outdoors activities when he came to Canada in the eighties. …show more content…

They rode through rivers, streets, parks and forests. They rode through downtown, all the way to the Toronto Zoo, Pearson Airport, along the lakeshore, they even brought their bikes on the ferry to Toronto Island and rode their as well, he said biking made him feel free. Compared to today, it is much harder to find opportunities to ride bikes, my dad said there was signifigantly less traffic in the past than now, it felt much more safe back then. It was also massively more cheap, cheaper than getting a car or taking a bus ride, and you can just ride all day Soccer was a sport he played quite a lot as well. After school, my dad and his friends would gather near Christie Pit and Bloor and Christie and play soccer. From my experience, most of my peers today rarely participate in any sports, most of us, me included, play video games, our phones and computers. Its not that …show more content…

He lived in an era where casette tapes and vhs tapes were the norm, there was no internet, and cell phones did not exist at the time. He did not have an Xbox or a Playstation console that could display 3D graphics, but he did have an Atari 2600 that displayed pixels, he played Space Invaders and Beserk many times. Information was a lot harder to find back in the day, you just could not go on the internet and google what you wanted to find. He had to go to the library and ask for something, the librarian would direct him. Hopefully he would find out something in the encyclopedia, but most times not. If you wanted to find an article or document, there was this thing called Microfiche, a flat sheet that store articles and documents a twenty-fifth of their size and needed a special Microfiche reader to be able to see it properly. It took a long time to send or receive messages from someone you could not directly see in the past, people did not have cell phones, and had to write letters if they did not have a phone, with all the time before speaking, you thought a lot about what you wanted to say. In this days, we are instantly connected to anyone, at anytime. This makes us want to be instantly gratified, and we talk, or text on a whim, with impulses, not truely thinking about how we want to convey our message and feelings. We as a society in whole have become more connected, yet more disconnected

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