Lunar New Year is a grand festival for Chinese people as family members from all around the world will head home for a reunion. It would be the only season in a year when all family members get to meet each other in person and have a perfect big warm Lunar New Year’s Eve meal together. However, in recent years, the younger generations are changing the traditional ways of celebrating Lunar New Year. They are less inclined to follow the customs or might have disconnected from their own cultures. As Lee defines that “culture is symbolized as the whole range of human activity in general, the particular way of life of a group of people, which consists of their beliefs, customs, religions, languages, protocols, music, arts, foods and so forth” (41),
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In the news report, “Lunar New Year is morphing into an all-American holiday with taco trucks, beat boxing and beer”, Chef Tin Vuong was interviewed by Frank Shyong. He comments on the evolved tradition of celebrating Lunar New Year that has begun since most of older generations passed away. The news report raises the awareness of this contemporary issue by addressing the viewpoints of Lunar New Year celebration from a few Asian Americans, and showing the traditional and modern ways of Lunar New Year celebration in the United States.
Nowadays, the younger generations of Asian Americans have developed different viewpoints on the Lunar New Year celebration and they tend to perceive the meaning of it differently. Celebrating Lunar New Year is part of the Asian culture, and “culture must be understood as both the expressive production of everyday life and the central site of struggle over the meaning of social identities” (Lee 41). In the relationship of culture with social identity, culture itself has its own significant meanings with the tradition too. According to chef Tin Vuong, he mentions that all the things that he knows from Chinese New Year are “drinking, gambling, respect for the elders, religion and tradition, and …show more content…
“The second-generation of Asian Americans started to form a distinctive desi subculture that is characterized by a degree of identification with their culture of origin, but that is expressed in a manner that is a hybridized representation of this ethnic pride, usually distinct from the traditions of their parents” (Louie 113). Unquestionably, the generation gap is created due to the varied experiences encountered by the older and younger generations that are based on the time period, policy, and economic and social factors. Now, young Asian Americans are creating their own ways of the Lunar New Year celebration in a more modern and hipper style, such as having taco trucks, beat boxing and beer instead of the traditional ways of having a reunion dinner with family. The festive activities during Lunar New Year, such as parade has also changed to fuse with Mexican and American cultures in the United States. As evolution is happening progressively, the disconnection gap between the traditions and their meanings grows larger. The young Asian Americans no longer make the traditional foods, such as Nian Gou (a sticky red bean cake) and dumplings (which symbolize wealth) by themselves. Instead of that, they can easily buy these foods from the nearby Asian supermarkets. In the fine arts aspect, the young generations have created
In the news report, “Lunar New Year is morphing into an all-American holiday with taco trucks, beat boxing and beer”, Chef Tin Vuong was interviewed by Frank Shyong. He comments on the evolved tradition of celebrating Lunar New Year that has begun since most of older generations passed away. The news report raises the awareness of this contemporary issue by addressing the viewpoints of Lunar New Year celebration from a few Asian Americans, and showing the traditional and modern ways of Lunar New Year celebration in the United States.
Nowadays, the younger generations of Asian Americans have developed different viewpoints on the Lunar New Year celebration and they tend to perceive the meaning of it differently. Celebrating Lunar New Year is part of the Asian culture, and “culture must be understood as both the expressive production of everyday life and the central site of struggle over the meaning of social identities” (Lee 41). In the relationship of culture with social identity, culture itself has its own significant meanings with the tradition too. According to chef Tin Vuong, he mentions that all the things that he knows from Chinese New Year are “drinking, gambling, respect for the elders, religion and tradition, and …show more content…
“The second-generation of Asian Americans started to form a distinctive desi subculture that is characterized by a degree of identification with their culture of origin, but that is expressed in a manner that is a hybridized representation of this ethnic pride, usually distinct from the traditions of their parents” (Louie 113). Unquestionably, the generation gap is created due to the varied experiences encountered by the older and younger generations that are based on the time period, policy, and economic and social factors. Now, young Asian Americans are creating their own ways of the Lunar New Year celebration in a more modern and hipper style, such as having taco trucks, beat boxing and beer instead of the traditional ways of having a reunion dinner with family. The festive activities during Lunar New Year, such as parade has also changed to fuse with Mexican and American cultures in the United States. As evolution is happening progressively, the disconnection gap between the traditions and their meanings grows larger. The young Asian Americans no longer make the traditional foods, such as Nian Gou (a sticky red bean cake) and dumplings (which symbolize wealth) by themselves. Instead of that, they can easily buy these foods from the nearby Asian supermarkets. In the fine arts aspect, the young generations have created