Overseas Vietnamese

There are a wide variety of food that are significant to Chinese New Year (CNY). The foods served on CNY is a combination of symbols and sumptuous flavours. The dishes served during CNY suggests wealth, luck and splendour by the way of their appearance or because they rhyme with certain auspicious Chinese words. Proportions are generous as customs dictates that one should not be stint at the festive table as abundance brings luck. (Moey, 2006, p. 10) Before I started writing, I interviewed two…

4. The Outdoor Leisure Participants (Demand) 4.1. The Consumer Economic analysis of the demand for a commodity normally takes as its starting point the relationship between the quantity demand, the price of the commodity and the income of the consumers. For outdoor leisure commodities, however, the resources available to the consumer are wider than simply his or her income. To enjoy leisure commodities consumers need time, and for some consumers the lack of availability of time is a bigger…

The article “Why Do Language Die?” by Noah Tesch reminds me a conversation that I had with a Cherokee when I visited a Cherokee preservation festival several years ago. The young man I have talked with had told me that they are demanded from the government to adapt the endangered Cherokee culture into their everyday lives, which include their younger generations to learn Cherokee languages along with English. Languages are not only a way to communicate, they also represent different cultural…

Media plays a very significant role in people’s everyday lives. Why media is so important in Chinese society? Perhaps the media can instruct each individual person of what is going on around the world, it is a very important role that help informs people about news, history, entertainment, music, and politics, which is used as a form of communication and obtaining knowledge from expertise. Certainly, most media are likely to provide accurate information to the people. Over the pass couples of…

Everybody born as a consumer, and consumerism is a word that as old as our modern civilization. On the other hand, it is also a derogatory term that is used to describe an uncontrolled buying and wasting behavior. A few days ago, one of my friends just ordered the newest IPhone, which is the IPhone7 that was released in the beginning of September, even though his IPhone6 works just fine. I can feel his gratification from his Facebook and twitter as he definitely wants to show his new toy, the…

Throughout history, many people come to America by force or immigration. Many found the hardship and fulfilled the dream. At the time Olaudah Equiano arrived in America, the new land, his life and fate is set to change dramatically. In the narrative, the conflicts that Equiano wrestles within in his life are devastating account that happened in human history. Although Equiano and I live in different time, our experiences connect us with the problem of first generation settler. Examining contexts…

a. In her work “Conflict, Coping, and Reconciliation: Intergenerational Relations in Chinese Immigrant Families,” author Min Zhou discusses the generation gap between Chinese immigrant parents and their children. As Zhou states, the Chinese immigrant population in the United States started as individuals but has now evolved into a family community. These immigrants come from different geographical, socioeconomic, and educational backgrounds. Despite all their different stories, one thing that is…

KangKang Shih, known as Patrick in the U.S., is part of a family of Chinese immigrants. His grandparents migrated from China to Brazil before his father was born. Patrick’s father, aunt, and uncle all grew up in Sao Paulo and later went on to study in the United States in search of better opportunities. However, while most of the Shih family stayed in the U.S., his father, Teh Shih, moved back to China and consequently, that’s where Patrick was born. While Teh might not have been born in China…

Book Review Anne Pegler-Gordon 's in Sight of America: Photography and the development of U.S. immigration policy, is a study that illustrates the importance of photography and the development of photographic identity documentation and its role in the regulation of immigrants. In addition the study explains how these developments produced racial distinction and how these distinctions contributed to the immigration policy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Pegler Gordon main…

Chinese immigrants post 1965 face difficulties when coming to America. Chinese immigrants can re-establish ethnic networks but the connected are mainly from strangers instead of family and friends who have the same background (475). One challenge is their connections and networking are disrupted. Those immigrants who is in the middle class and chose to live in white suburbs have difficulties connecting with people of their “kind” (475). The second challenge is things are different in family…