Essay on Ethnography on Cambodian Americans

Being a Hmong-American in the United States was hard. Growing up in a community that was full of Americans, and being in a private school in my early years, (consisting mostly of Americans and little diversity) was difficult. In that kind of environment, I never saw each person differently. The characteristics that I saw were our skin color, and another distinction that I saw was our religious and cultural backgrounds. I started to lose touch of my own culture and identity as a Hmong-American girl. My family told me that in the stages of my toddler years, I used to be good at speaking my native tongue until I started school.

The following paper will discuss Vietnamese Americans and their journey to America. I will talk about how these incredible and resilient people fought to succeed it a world that seemed to hold the odds against them. The culture, beliefs, and challenges of Vietnamese people are a precise paradigm of their strength and perseverance.

The air would always be humid and stuffy while riding the bus to school, and the slightest bump in the road would result in tossing up the kids like salad. The backseat would provide carriage for all the popular and tough kids shouting out at pedestrians on the street or flipping off a middle finger to the bus driver that would shout for them to calm down. I despised those kids in the back. They were the same people that made my life a living hell, while growing up and attending an American school.

Growing up without parents is a rough task, but growing up without parents amongst a raging war is absurd. Having to run and hide in fear as your village is raided by North Vietnam soldiers is something no one should have to experience, but to those such as my dad, who has experienced this, it can be terrorizing. My dad grew up in the little town of Long Cheng, Laos living day to day struggling to survive. Living conditions for the lower class in Laos was already harsh enough, but when the Vietnam War broke out in 1961 these conditions got even worse. My father and many other Hmongs in Laos were in great danger of the communist armies.

The pain and the suffering, the oppression, and the exclusion all describe the history of Asia America. When they arrived to the United States, they become labeled as Asians. These Asians come from Japan, China, Korea, Laos, Thailand, and many other diverse countries in the Eastern hemisphere. These people wanted to escape from their impoverished lives as the West continued to infiltrate their motherland. They saw America as the promise land filled with opportunity to succeed in life. Yet due to the discrimination placed from society and continual unfair

     The focus of our group project is on Chinese Americans. We studied various aspects of their lives and the preservation of their culture in America. The Chinese American population is continually growing. In fact, in 1990, they were the largest group of Asians in the United States (Min 58). But living in America and adjusting to a new way of life is not easy. Many Chinese Americans have faced and continue to face much conflict between their Chinese and American identities. But many times, as they adapt to this new life, they are also able to preserve their Chinese culture and identity through various ways. We studied these things through the viewing of a movie called Joy Luck Club,

Many people do notice at first, but I am half Asian. I practice both the American and Asian cultures. My mother is Khmer and my dad is white. Khmer people come from Cambodia which is a small part of Asia. There are many differences between american and cambodian cultures, here are some of them.

The history of Cambodians in the United States began in the 1950s to 1960s when four Cambodian exchange students were admitted into the California State University, Long Beach to study in their Industrial Arts program. These well-educated students led the way for thousands of refugees to move there following the Khmer Rouge in the 70s. Since then, Long Beach, California has become home to one of the largest populations of Cambodians outside of southeast Asia (Needham and Quintiliani). In this essay, we will explore the history, settlement and growth, and daily life of Cambodians living in Long Beach, as well as the challenges they’re currently facing.

What were the strengths and weaknesses of European ethnography and / or science in understanding the Pacific? To the from here we go today I will not bug okay

Hello, my full name is Chuong Dinh Pham and this about me. So first that I am Vietnamese, born in Vietnam. I was born on January 11,2000. I was raised and grow up in Vietnam for twelve years. When 2001 hit in October, I have a baby sister. That happen when I was one year old. And we live with our parent, father, and mother. Until around April to May, we have the interview that we are going to U.S and we pass the interview. First time I learn a new language that I will speak to my friend and people around when I walk out the house.

After reading the novel Children of the River, I have learned some customs that people in Cambodia practice in their country. In this essay, I shall describe some examples of their traditions and contrast them with the American culture as shown in the novel and Honduran culture of which I am most familiar.

The Orient is traditionally viewed as separate, backward, erotic, exotic, and passive. It mirrors a past of unscrupulous tyrannical power involving carnal pleasures and deviating from the restrictive morals of the “occidental.” The Orient displays feminine vulnerability with its progress and value judged as inferior to the West. Graham Greene’s The Quiet American presents the treatment of Phuong as a metaphor for how foreign occupying forces treat her native country of Vietnam, and her depiction as having no control in matters of her love life is a motif of the Orient being a feminized other.

In 1975, the Khmer Rouge invaded Phnom Penh. Lon Nol, the self-proclaimed president of Khmer Republic escaped Cambodia into exile. The Khmer Rouge won the Cambodian civil war and the national executive power. However, in the 1960s, the Khmer Rouge was the armed wing of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and was operating in remote mountain areas of Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge mobilizes farmers, especially the youth, in rural areas for support. The Prince Sihanouk’s disfavor and the Communist agrarian ideology of Pol Pot, who was the leader of the Khmer Rouge, deterred the party from gaining support from urban dwellers. The turning point came in 1970. A military coup led by Lon Nol overthrew Prince Sihanouk and China encouraged Prince Sihanouk

“The banyan tree grows throughout Cambodia. It may reach a height of over 100 feet, and as it grows, new roots descend from its branches, pushing into the ground and forming new trunks. The roots grow relentlessly; many of the ancient temples of Angkor have toppled as these roots have become embedded in the cracks and crevices between their massive stones. A single tree might have dozens of trunks, and it is often impossible to tell which is the original.

Greetings follow a strict protocol based off of ethnic origin and race. The elders are always introduced first. Elders may or may not be accustom to shaking hands which is why you are to wait on them to extend their hand first. If the person is from a Chinese background the handshake will tend to be light and prolonged. If the person is Malay it is important to know that the women are not allowed to shake hands with Malaysian men. This is due to the fact that Malaysians are mainly Muslim and contact between males and females in public is forbidden. Instead they may utter the phrase “salaam” followed by a bow. For our female employees, a nod and a smile will suffice. If you are going to exchange business cards make sure the card is in pristine condition. The treatment of the card is seen as a reflection of the relationship (Doing Business in Singapore).