Immigrants share their cultural traditions with the larger community through ethnic celebrations. During ethnic celebrations, immigrants can display and enjoy many of their native cultural traditions while joining with others from their homelands and the larger community. When a group immigrates to a new country, its members find that they have to modify their way of life (their celebrations of significant events too). Immigrants have brought with them a diversity of languages, religious practices, food and craft traditions and ways of celebrating (cultural diversity).
Many ethnic celebrations are calendar events like religious holidays. And other ones are life cycle events (weddings and funerals). These occasions also offer a time for people of the same ethnicity to enjoy customs that connect them with their homelands and the larger community.