Chopsticks To Eat In My Culture

When looking at, “Divorce”, the cutlery is personified and uniquely used throughout the whole short poem. In chapter four, Johnson and Arp tells us “Personification consists of giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept”(797). Primarily the whole idea around personification, is for the reader to visualize and understand what the human attributes that are given to the object or concept. Billy Collins writes the lines,”Once, two spoons in bed,/now tinted forks/across a granite table/and the knives they have hired”(1-4).”The two spoons are personified as this couple who fit into one another perfectly just like spoons as you put them together. All of a sudden, they become

Around the globe there are many different types of unique and delicious food. In America it’s extremely diverse, people around the world come to America to share and spread their cultural food so that Americans can enjoy. There are several Vietnamese restaurants in America that Americans love to visit once or twice every week. Vietnamese food are usually defined as inauthentic in America. Vietnamese food in the U.S are highly different than the ones in Vietnam. In Vietnam, the food texture, taste, and color are authentic because the ingredients are freshly made. Moreover, in America the spices and recipes are not like the original ingredients. The taste and color of the food is exceedingly essential because if people come in and eat, they wouldn’t want to pay for foods that are plain boring, colorless, and tasteless. That would be awful.

As Vietnamese people constantly had to defend themselves against foreigners, they adopted products of other cultures which they valued and renovated them into their own.

Kothari describes a time visiting India, where she longed to be like her cousins. Though Kothari never says America is cleaner than India; it is easy to surmise because of a reference to a trip back home. She describes everything eaten there as closely monitored and cleaned thoroughly because of amoebic dysentery and other unexplained ailments (Kothari 948). Her mother guides her safely through the Indian culture and food preparation. But her want to be included resulted in the consumption of the food her mom kept her safe from, ending with sickness (vomiting) thus being teased by her cousins. Through Kothari’s description of all things within her Indian culture, the reader can envision Kothari’s longing for it. She feels safe with her native food; it is her comfort food except when it comes to cooking or preparing it. Kothari makes it clear that she is unable to reproduce the simple recipes of her family correctly; a more complicated dish would take her six hours and three phone calls

Grilling meats and spit roasting over a pit fire are both common even today. Americans use barbecue smokers to cook chicken, pork and corn. Frying is the most common in Western countries because almost every famous dish is related to frying. Examples include fried chicken, French fries, burgers and fries, etc. Local families in America like to do baking, which is generally applied to breads, lasagna, manicotti, pastries and other sweet confections. There is a big difference between Chinese and American cooking methods. One is mainly concentrated on the color, smell and shape. The other is always speedy, convenient and cheap.

The Navajo Indians had to make their own weapons, such as the bow and arrow. The bow and arrow was one of the main weapons to use to kill animals. The Navajo Indians used other weapons like prayer sticks, claw dance stick, war shields, tomahawked,

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.

Have you ever been to a new country or state other than the one where you were born? Did you feel out of place? Many people can relate to what it feels like to be in a strange place. The people that have a strong sense of culture seem to handle situations such as these a little easier than those who have lost a sense of culture. Culture plays a major role on how we view other people and the world.

After doing all my research on the Vietnamese food, I now want to travel there and try it all!! In the 1800’s, during the Nguyën Dynasty, the French established a colony in Vietnam and they brought along their own food, which shortly became a huge influence on the Vietnamese cuisine. Foods like carrots, potatoes, lettuce, and others are all a few of the ingredients the French introduced to the Vietnamese that they now use on a daily basis in their cuisines. Coffee and baguettes are two of the mostly influences foods introduced by the French, along with several others (Wiens, Mark, 2013).

The traditional view the Vietnamese have on their social duties dervies on more a folklore explaining the origin of Vietnam. “The mountain-meet-ocean geographical characteristic of Vietnam is significant to the cultural identity of Vietnamese women, because the culture associates mountains with fatherhood and the ocean with motherhood…Vietnamese associate their myth of origin with the reconciled conflict of a divorce, where Mother, whose nature was that of water, took the form of a bird and flew to the mountains, and Father, whose nature was that of the mountains, took the

The difficulty of moving to a new culture is that a lot of people would feel fear because they are so use to their own culture, so now they leave what they are used to a new way and it will be hard for them to adapt. Some may like the new food and the pace of life, then later on in the month’s people may feel like the new life and culture is unpleasant life for instance: public hygiene, the language barriers, traffic safety, and food accessibility. Still the most part in relocating to a different culture is the communication because they might not understand the language or might say the wrong word thinking it means the same in the other countries. People adjusting to a new culture often feel lonely and homesick because they are not yet

Vietnam has variety types of food for every occasion, from an everyday meal to New Year’s festivities food. The flavor of the Vietnamese food varies from sweet, sour, salty, and spicy. However, rice, the

When you sit down at your dinner table do you ever wonder about the fork, knife, and spoon? The history of eating utensils goes way back to the first human-beings when they started eating with their fingers but over time their eating methods were refined and they started to use spoons, knifes, and forks. Many people were hesitant to make the switch to eating utensils like the English.

On one hand, Vietnamese gastronomy is not just about Vietnamese food; the gastronomes can try Chinese, Thailand, French food and many other dishes from different countries in the world right here in the Vietnamese restaurants. It is really a paradise of food bringing tourists to Vietnam. On the other hand, many Vietnamese restaurants located abroad contribute to present the image of Vietnamese gastronomy to the world. Misses Wendy Chan, an expert from Definity Marketing assumes that Vietnamese food is the most fashionable choice for the Americans.

When the Thais finished eating all of their food, they would pack up all of the leftover foods from the meal and store it in the refrigerator to eat the next day. The people of Thailand have a strong belief that throwing away food is a very sinful thing to do since it will dishonor and anger the Thai god causing famine and starvation among