South Asian Canadian

21st century

South Asian Canadian culture entered the Canadian mainstream in the 21st century. Bhangra music, a genre originating in India that combines traditional Punjabi music with pop, hip hop and other Western musical styles, has grown increasingly popular throughout Canada. Punjabi Canadian hip hop experienced a surge of popularity among audiences in Canada and internationally beginning in the 2010s. Canadians of all backgrounds enjoy and are familiar with Bollywood. In 2011, the 12th International Indian Film Academy Awards were hosted in Toronto, which was home to nearly 832,000 Canadians of South Asian ancestry, one of the largest in the Western World. How to Be Indie, a Canadian children's television program produced by YTV, centres on the daughter of HinduIndian immigrants living in Toronto, and has since been syndicated in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Latin America and elsewhere. The Indian Canadian comedian Russell Peters has drawn on his heritage for much of his comedic as material.