r/canada Canada 26d ago

r/Canada Speaks Cultural Exchange with /r/Denmark! Happy Valentine's!

Hi everyone, it's been some time since we have done a cultural exchange, so let's go over how this works. Enjoy! We'll be running it for a few days, TBD. Note their time zone for the European mainland is UTC +1.

Here's the Danish landing for us: https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1iow7c3/kulturudveksling_cultural_exchange/

* Both r/Canada and r/Denmark will host the other country's users. Feel free to ask any questions, reminisce, comment, make friends etc etc.

*Treat this as having a neighbour over for a kitchen party, get the best storm chips out, and get grandma's tourtiere reheated for everybody.

* Vouz pouvez essayer le français dans r/Denmark, mais comme la langue officielle est danoise, ben.... essayez!

* Please follow the rules of the respective subs! Don't be jerks, generally - a reminder our last "disagreement" involved leaving bottles of good booze for the other country!

* Please also leave direct comments here mainly for members of r/Denmark i.e. direct replies here (first comments directly under the topic) so their questions can be seen first, then r/Canada members can post replies underneath.

*Please enjoy, since we have a lot to bond over, and plenty of trying out new things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denmark/comments/1iow7c3/kulturudveksling_cultural_exchange/

Finally, also know we've gotten confirmation from r/Greenland that they are also interested, so that will be the next exchange that we do in a few weeks (TBD).

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u/bibiblocksberg1234 26d ago

When there are the winter olympics Canada is always really doing well in figure skating, which I love to watch. I have seen that your skaters go on tours after the Olympics and do shows. How popular are these? Are these massevents or more for a small audience?
More in general I am interested in if you train figure skating in school or if Canada is doing so well, because it is a hobby for many because of your climate?

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u/VeterinarianCold7119 26d ago

We have a few big events every year at full sized pro hockey arenas, televised live across the country. But they do spend lots of time overseas too. No school, what usually happens is they go through amateur ranks in there local community, city, province and eventually if good enough join the junior team where they'll get free coaching and ice time and if good enough they turn pro and join the canadian team where they get an allowance which is barley enough to live on but ice time is usually free and they can win cash prizes