Vietnamese American

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. Unfortunately, Vietnamese Americans make up only a small percent of the total American Population today. There are many stereotypes associated with the Vietnamese, but the truth is

I am Vietnamese, I am American Durian fruit. When people ask me how I feel about my Vietnamese culture, the first thing that comes to mind is durian fruit. Unlike the strawberries or cherries found at Safeway, durian fruit at first glance does not even look edible. The entire fruit resembles a dirty old football, except that durian weighs nearly three pounds. One-inch spikes and a tough brown outer peel cover the fruit, giving it an intimidating look. Inside, yellow, kidney-shaped pieces line

Achieving communication competence in a culturally diverse society is necessary for personal and professional success. I took the interview of my Vietnamese-American friend named Anh Bui. I chose him as my interviewee because for me he was the source of both American and Vietnamese communication traits. However he considers himself more of an american guy because he was born and grew up in california. We found a place to sit at the Titan Student Union. I started the interview by doing the shape-color-material

with herself, her Korean and American cultures, and her values. The article I chose is “Living in Two Cultures” by Andrew Lam; he described his experiences coming to the United States and comparing and contrasting Vietnamese and American cultures. Another article I chose is “The Korean Language in America: The Role of Cultural Identity in Heritage Language Learning” by Jin Sook Lee. It is a study about the role of cultural identity and language for Korean Americans. I was born at Vietnam, but

People" " I love Yous Are for White People" is a memoir about Lac's journey and his family immigrated to America from Vietnam, after the Vietnam's War. Lac's family had to deal with cultural shock, language barrier, and difficulty finding jobs. As a Vietnamese immigration myself, I feel like Lac's experiences live through me because there were a lot of similarities in his memoir compared to my past experiences with my parents. Lac's family and many immigrations families had the same circumstances, that

stereotype as a Vietnamese sex worker says, “me love you long time” to a man in the United States military is a famous example of this exploration (Nittle). This is creating a great impact because our society as a whole looks at the people within the entertainment industry and the content it produces as examples of how we want to be. This creates a box for the youth of Asian cultures whether in the U.S. or elsewhere if that is their only example. Vietnamese/Asian Culture in the American News Even

This week's reading, Jonathan Lee's “Vietnamese in America” (pages 128 to 138) in History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots, explores the resettlement process of Vietnamese refugees in the United States. What interested me most was the intergenerational conflict between 1-generation Vietnamese Americans and 1.5- and second-generation Vietnamese Americans. The “rescue psychology,” the guilt for losing the Vietnam War which fueled humanitarian efforts to help displaced refugees, mitigated

For this paper I will examine Vietnamese culture according to the five essential questions all cultures must answer (according to Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck). I will then take those answers and compare then to out culture here in America. I realize that some might argue that using North American culture as a starting point is an attempt to simplify this writing, but I believe that any initial examination of something new is most effectively done in comparison to what one already knows. The first

herself being stuck between Vietnamese and American culture, but on one instance she explicitly describes her realization of being stuck in-between cultures. There is a particular moment in her memoir when she talks about herself and her sister, Anh attending a Vietnamese party (Nguyen 113). She and her sister had attended multiple Vietnamese parties before but they eventually lost interest in them (Nguyen 113). As they had not celebrated Tet, which is the Vietnamese New Year, in their usual manner

with different social and cultural backgrounds. Our group consists of two Chinese-Americans and one Vietnamese-American. Our report is on the social customs of our respective cultures. Our purpose is to gather information about our social customs so that we can inform our audience. We researched dining etiquette, gift-giving etiquette, wedding customs, festival celebrations, and family customs for Chinese and Vietnamese cultures. We conducted our research using secondary sources, such as the Web, along