A Little Bit Of The Vietnamese Culture

Back in Vietnam, her family had a coffee trading business in Sai Gon, Vietnam. Being Chinese, private business owner, her family were influenced a lot after the war. They turned from a middle class family, with pretty high education to refugees leaving the country with bare hands. Being a high school student when her family came here in 1987, Professor Hong was old enough to experience the harsh life of southern people in Vietnam after the war, and told her personal story.

Richard Rodriguez article, “The Chinese in All of Us (1944)”, argues that many different cultures have contributed to making up the American culture. Rodriguez backs up this claim by sharing

This description of a melting pot is now heard frequently in America to describe its citizens. The cultural assimilation that occurred in the colonies of the New World gave the people a great sense of identity and the unity as all being Americans.

The artist of the song using Logos by talking about Vietnam War. The fact that during the war, America called every young man have to leave America and came to Vietnam for the war. They needed to prevent the Communism spread to South Vietnam. Also, he using the Ethos rhetorical by the soldier believed that American’s army can stop Communism in Vietnam. Or maybe they will out of their hand and lose their freedom. Moreover, the artist also using Pathos. The soldier express his emotion by repeat many sentence through the lyric “Kiss, me goodbye and write me while I'm gone. Good, bye, my sweetheart, Hello Vietnam.” Now is time for leaving, he have to say goodbye to his darling. He hope and pray that the war will end soon and freedom

According to Kashima (2010), defining what culture means is a difficult task. Culture can be considered the individual differences of identity. Culture is established by numerous things such as ideology and beliefs. While categories of culture are not limited to only country, a common classification of culture is that of different countries. Vietnam’s culture is diverse, influences from many countries have played a role in shaping Vietnam’s culture. Years of Chinese rule, French imperialism, social conflicts and war have given Vietnamese culture a unique richness of language, music and history.

What is it like to be born in one country and then grow up in another where people speak a different language and follow different traditions? And is it easy to grow up in another country where members of the native country pressure one to be "one of their own"? If anyone wishes to find insightful and interesting answers to these questions, one should go no further than read Lac Su's I Love Yours Are for White People. In this book, Lac tells the story of his child- and adolescent-hood, growing up in "urban" Los Angeles as a Vietnamese living with a "traditional" Vietnamese family. As Lac demonstrates in the book, he once was between two worlds, sometimes unable to figure out who he was, and sometimes rejecting one or the other altogether. After going through difficult and painful experiences, Lac learns to embrace his ethnic identity. He realizes that he is a Vietnamese-American who belongs to both cultures. He learns to appreciate his Vietnamese background but also acknowledges that he is partly American because some Vietnamese habits are so uncommon for him.

America is a melting pot filled with many different cultures; moreover, the changing color of America has made it one of the most diverse place to live. Though rich in culture, minority groups suffer from health disparities due to their socioeconomic status, education, language, and political beliefs. As most minority group will find they have similar barriers that they face during the assimilation to the main stream culture. The minority group that will be focused for this discussion will be Vietnamese Americans.

So many times the phrase "melting pot" is used to describe the United States of America. It is a country built on ideals such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and other basic human rights. These  ideals, though they may have originated from European men labeled as liberals, eventually captured followers from all over the world. Soon, America was a mixture of peoples with different ethnic backgrounds, religions, and cultures all working together for the "American Dream."

She is a Hmong from Laos like her parents and family. They have to learn their ways of living and their beliefs but also learned to fit in with the American society including their Hmong Culture. They were all living in different parts of the United States. Some people might not agree with their beliefs because they came here as refugees from their homeland Laos. Because in the 1970s, war and conflict caused many of the Hmong people in Laos to flee to refugee camps (Yang 53). She was born in one of these camps and she moved with her family, including her older sister Dawb, to Minnesota in 1987 (Yang 53). Yang started to go to school in the U.S. and she struggled because she was not used to her

Kim empowers people who others may not necessarily see as valuable. She gives her subordinates opportunities to succeed, and to overcome personal obstacles. This inspires a high-level of loyalty. She will stand up for her people and get them what they need to do their jobs effectively; to support what we are all here to do, provide quality learning opportunities for our students and the community. In my comparatively

Hmong involvement in the Vietnam War led families like the Yangs to immigrate to the United States. Yang was born in a refugee camp in Thailand, (Yang, pg. 53). Like some Hmong families, she was relocated to the United States. Yang was considered lucky because many other Hmong families were left behind in a country that considered them traitors, (George, 2010).

As a girl who was born and raised in Vietnam, a third world country, and then moved to the United States of America three years ago, I experienced a big culture shock. Everything was very different here compared to where I come from. It was a big opportunity for me to explore the new world. I got to learn about the differences between Vietnamese and American families, education, and food.

As America was fighting a war for freedom in another country, unruly teens were fighting their own at home. Cultural change, the explosion of free love, youthful rebellion, and a new liberal mindset all seemed to have one underlying device in common; drug use. The late 1960’s into the early and mid-70’s found the perfect environment for recreational drug use. Music and arts celebrated this lifestyle, as well as free thinkers and their idiotic philosophies about spiritual elation through mind altering narcotics. Lack of family structure with so many homes transformed by the Vietnam War also left young teens without guidance, and an economy with little to offer to the up and coming generation. As the next few years passed and the free love generation began to grasp the concept of working for a living, showering on a regular basis, love with commitment (or antibiotics), and cultural change through policy, they brought to the workforce a new dynamic not previously prevalent. Recreational drug use had become part of society. Vietnam War veterans also brought their own demons home with their return, opiate addictions were a common occurrence (Carson 2012).

After this fortunate door-opener, Vietnam was known as one of the most rapid- growing economies worldwide.

The “melting pot” culture refers to people from various cultures coming together to create a new unique culture. (Lorenzo, 2000) In other words, these cultures have ‘melted’ together in a ‘pot’. For example, Chinese, Koreans, Germans and more cultures blended in together to create a whole new American culture. They are not Chinese-Americans, Korean-Americans or German-Americans anymore but just Americans. On the other hand, “salad bowl” culture refers to immigrants who do not lose the aspects of their cultures. . (Lorenzo, 2000) To put it in another way, you can still clearly see the different ‘ingredients’ in a ‘salad bowl’. As a contrast to the melting pot theory’s example, Chinese-Americans, Korean-Americans and German-Americans will still keep the unique traits of their cultures while living together in the country. America has been traditionally referred to as a ‘melting pot’, but recently; there are people who argue that ‘salad bowl’ will be a better description of America’s society today.