Vietnamese American

Often, when New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Celebrations are mentioned, many Americans tend to imagine fireworks and champagne among other vibrant festivities occurring on December 31st and January 1st. However, while Vietnamese-American families celebrate this holiday, they also celebrate their own unique holiday based on the lunar calendar. Due to my relationship with Gabrielle Nguyen, I have been able to experience the New Orleans Vietnamese community’s rendition of some of the events of Vietnamese New Year’s, or Tết, firsthand. Centuries ago when the Vietnamese culture became independent from the Chinese, they took with them some of the Chinese traditions. Celebrating the lunar New Year is one of the important traditions taken from…

I am interested in becoming a part of VSA Board because it will allow me to feel closer to my Vietnamese American and Asian American identity. VSA has a sense of inclusivity and openness that will let me be able to identity as a Vietnamese and love Vietnamese culture without adhering to self imposed cultural expectations. I am able to connect with people not only through Vietnamese culture, but also underlying similarities. I would like to be immersed in the community to have that strong…

Other than Vietnamese Culture influenced by Confucianism, Vietnamese Americans have or own a business from adapting to U.S. economics. The Vietnamese people had to adapt to U.S. economics because of how poor they were and couldn’t speak any English at all. Vietnamese Americans might be found in all occupations, however they appear to demonstrate an inclination for specialized employments, like electrical building and apparatus amassing. In the southern states along the Inlet Drift, Vietnamese…

The following voice project will discuss second generation Vietnamese Americans struggling with cultural expectations. In this assignment, I will discuss summary of lessons learned and final thoughts. I thoroughly enjoyed this experience. Recognizing where Vietnamese Americans came from and the troubles and hardships they’ve endured is a step toward understanding of their culture. I came into this assignment with little knowledge of the population. Through research and hands on activities, I…

This presentation will discuss the problems of the Vietnamese American children community. The Vietnamese American community relocated to Western society due to the trauma occurring within Vietnam. The children of migrates are directly affected by the traumas that the first generation Vietnamese Americans are experiencing. The first generation have difficulties acculturation to Western society but this is opposite for the second and other generations. The other generations were forced to…

I identify as a Vietnamese-American, however, this was never the case. It was almost ironic how strongly I identified with American culture when my family’s time spent in America was fairly new. Since my parents traveled to America after the Vietnam War in the 1980’s, my siblings and I are the first American-born generation. I grew up as an American, so I quickly found out that I had no knowledge of the Vietnamese culture, language, or history. It came to the point where I realized, I couldn’t…

mother asked him to come back to school, he always said he got the better job of currently his work. Otherwise, I had the plan in mind was the focus in school that helped me to get a better job. One made different on me that I came from outside America and though not the same with my cousin. I saw his mother told him the people in Vietnam could not come to America to study because they did not enough money to get in this country, why he refused his opportunity. He simply pouted and was not…

increase the risk of cervical cancer (CDC, 2014). A Pap test can detect cervical cancer in its early stage. Different studies have found that the prevalence of cervical cancer is high among immigrant Vietnamese women around the world. In the United States, Vietnamese American women show the highest rate of cervical cancer compared to all other ethnic groups. The cause of this disparity is perhaps the low rate of Pap test among the community (Taylor, Nguyen, Jackson, and McPhee, 2008). In this…

Vietnamese Americans Vietnamese Americans are people who settled in the United States with Vietnamese ethnic origin. According to Pew Research Center, the Vietnamese American population was estimated at 1.6 million in 2010, making up nearly fifty percent of the overseas Vietnamese population in the world. They are also the fourth-largest Asian ethnic community in the United States after Chinese Americans, Indian Americans, and Filipino Americans. The majority of Vietnamese migrated to the United…

The following voice project will discuss second generation Vietnamese Americans struggling with cultural expectations. In this assignment of exploration of literature, I will be discussing the first chapter of Growing up American: The Adaptation of Vietnamese Children to American Society. The first chapter is entitled The Children of Vietnamese Refugees. Growing up American tells the story of largest group of refugee children, Vietnamese children and sheds light on how they are negotiating the…