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When able to experience their culture first-hand, youth become free, strong, and confident, learning about who they are and where their heritage originates.

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"Caribana is always a renewing of the spirit - more than just dancing, something spiritual."

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"But like so many other parents I was looking forward to their cultural awakening,"

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"We would joke that Caribana is the best spiritual tonic for the social and political alienation so many of us feel in Canada, including so many of us born and raised in this country"

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Carib Ana is a place where people can reconnect with their heritage and culture, meet new and old faces, enjoy exotic foods, dance in the street just like their elders, and is an escape from the alienation people feel in a white-dominated society.

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The entire event, which is one of the first Caribbean Carnivals along with those in New York City, Notting Hill and Boston to be held outside of the Caribbean region, brings in over one million people to Toronto and over $400 million into Ontario's economy, annually.[3]