Vietnamese Culture Research Paper

Our world is a melting pot filled with a variety of cultures and ethnicities. People who grew up with a different cultural background sometimes forget their roots as they get older. I even forget my roots sometimes because, despite the fact that I grew up with a Vietnamese background, I have become so used to America and how they do things differently compared to Vietnam or Vietnamese people, that I simply forget about my culture and traditions. Another thing that I also overlook is the community that surrounds me every day. When I’m so caught up with my life and my extracurricular activities, I sometimes forget to take time to think about my community, how to give back, or how to make it better. I have progressively gotten better at reminding myself who I am by participating in cultural activities that my Vietnamese church offers. Every year we host an annual Vietnamese New Year festival at a local Youth Activity Center called Students Off the Street (S.O.S.). Vietnamese New Year is called Tết in Vietnamese and falls on the same day as Chinese New …show more content…
The first time I participated in a community service activity was Snack Pak 4 Kids. Snack Pak 4 Kids is a non-profit organization that helps provide food to students over the weekend so that they are well fed and ready to learn in school, because who can learn on an empty stomach? As I helped put food into each bag, it made me realize how big of a difference I was making in the community by simply putting a granola bar, orange juice, beef jerky, and other nutritious food in a bag. When we ran out of food to put in the bags, the people that ran the organization announced that we had enough bags worth of food to feed about 7,000 children and that astonished me. As I went home I felt really satisfied about giving back to my community for the first time and since then I’ve been participating more in community service