As I reflect on the past, a challenge that conquered a majority of my life was being a first-generation Vietnamese-American. Although I was born in America, I was raised with Vietnamese roots. This meant that I spoke fluent Vietnamese as a child and it was the only language I fully understood. It became a challenge as soon as I entered kindergarten. That was when I was introduced to the American culture. The mixture of English and Vietnamese made me forget how to speak Vietnamese with fluency. At a young age, I noted the difference between the two languages. I can recall a time where my teacher had asked what we ate for breakfast. I replied with "phở" and received odd stares from my peers because everyone else had said "cereal". In Vietnam, our breakfast consist of edible food that aided our survival. Therefore, there are no specific meals that does not fall under the category of breakfast. Not many people understood that. …show more content…
Report card pick-up functioned as judgment day for me. English was a foreign language to me. In sociology, there exists a concept called concerted cultivation. Children who are raised in a concertedly cultivated manner are said to be more socially developed. Parents really put in an immense effort by forming conversations and placing them in extracurricular activities. My parents didn 't have time to concertedly cultivate me. They worked long hours to ensure that they were able to pay our bills and put food on the table for their children. Even when they had the time to assist me with my homework, it was often difficult because English was something foreign to them as it was to me. There are even times, as an adult, where I feel insecure about speaking
ANALYSIS America’s policy of containment, which lead to the further development of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshal Plan, aimed to contain the spread of communism and when Vietnam was being threatened by a communist regime, the Vietcong, America extended its policy of containment to Asia. (Source B)America extending its policy of containment to Asia meant that it would support the South Vietnamese government by supplying military aid and advisors and American troops to assist the South Vietnamese in preventing a communist takeover. (Source A)America was scared that the ‘Domino effect’ would occur in Vietnam, which was the theory that if one country fell to communism, which in this case would be Vietnam, all the countries that besieged it
The Vitenam was one of the biggest blunders in American history. The war split America in two, and tensions in the country were high. It seemed as though everyone in America was mad at their government for some reason. The Vietnam war affected the United States of America socially, economically, and politically. Socially, the Vietnam war caused a split between the rich and the poor.
Have you ever had an obstacle that you had to overcome in learning a different language? In David Sedaris “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and Beth Johnson’s “The Professor is a Drop Out”, the individual’s trials are homogeneous in many ways, this stems from them being older students attempting to learn a different language. David Sedaris expresses the difficulties in learning French in a French-speaking nation, author Beth Johnson take the reader on a journey into the life of Lupe Quintanilla the reader learns of her struggles to learn English when she and her family moved to Texas. Both texts show the hurdles that these two people had to embark upon while being insecure in an environment that didn’t prioritize their native languages. But victoriously,
The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of blacks ever to serve in an American war. During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, who formed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam. The majority of these were in the infantry, and although authorities differ on the figures, the percentage of black combat fatalities in that period was a staggering 14.9 percent, a proportion that subsequently declined. Volunteers and draftees included many frustrated blacks whose impatience with the war and the delays in racial progress in America led to race riots on a number of ships and military bases, beginning in 1968, and the services' response in creating interracial councils and racial sensitivity
I was born in Vietnam, a small country in Asia. My family was ordinary and similar to the two millions of Vietnamese refugees, who have fled the country after the Vietnam War. My country is known for its rice fields, its beef noodle soup called “Pho,” the civil war between North and South, but Vietnam has four thousand years of History. It has always been a small country colonized by larger nations, such as France, or China. Yet, the inhabitants have fought to keep their territory.
The understanding of both culture will only expand knowledge. I was blind from the beauty of living in both cultures. Gaining my Hmong fluency and expanding my knowledge about the Hmong culture continues to grow today. With balance, I proceed to progress with the English language and American
War ends with deaths, missing people, traumatized people and some without food or a home. A question that most historians ask is, what starts a war. In this case what started the vietnam war? We all know it was a civil war and that was one of the main reasons America fought in the Vietnam war, democracy for the world! Vietnam's story started with the French colonization, for over 6 decades the French had been in control of the vietnamese people.
Had a conversation with some associates who wanted my input on what I was told as a recent issue in regard to the bashing of the “ Hmong men and the Hmong Culture.” So I’m going to write it down here for those individuals to read. I could care less about how you feel. first: there is nothing wrong with dating or marrying someone outside your own ethnic group.
When Asian came to America— a place where full of unfamiliar faces, speak different language, have different belief and culture, how would they respond and adapt to these changes? This essay investigates on Asian American experience in terms of culture, racial discrimination, culture assimilation and confliction, and lost of identity through diverse motions in four Asian American poems- “Eating Alone”, “Eating Together”, and “Persimmons” by Li-Young Lee, and “The Lost Sister” by Cathy Song. From the motions or movement in the poems, we can further look into their life and feeling of being an Asian American. In “Eating Alone” and “Eating Together”, speaker would like to express his yearning towards his death father and convey the hierarchy of a Chinese family. In “Persimmons”, speaker claims his unfortunate childhood experience to carry out the theme of racial discrimination and culture
The Vietnam War lasted for over two decades, from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. It was a conflict that fundamentally transformed American society and politics, with profound implications for the global balance of power. The war had its roots in the colonial era, when France controlled Indochina. After World War II, nationalist movements emerged across Southeast Asia, including in Vietnam, where communist and non-communist factions fought for control of the country. The United States became involved in the conflict in the early 1960s, under the pretext of containing communism and protecting South Vietnam from takeover by the North.
The culture of a country is defined by its own beliefs, its ways of life, its arts and other factors. Cultural differences are important because it distinguishes people living in a certain country from other countries. The differences between American and Vietnamese culture are striking, and they deserve rigorous examination. For example, marriage has the same meaning in both countries, which is the bonding of a man and a woman, but the wedding ceremonies are very unique.
My chest rose and fell with every heavy breath and beat of my heart; the battle had rendered me exhausted and depleted. I looked down below at the enemy of the century, taking a short moment to gaze upon the man I had just ultimately defeated. The very man who killed his own father and threatened to destroy anything that stood in his way. Kylo Ren. There was a look of anguish on my face as I hesitated in my actions.
Self-awareness is an initial step to understand the variations of cultures. It could help an individual to realize the essentials of his or her own culture that are usually neglected in daily life. In this essay, I would like to explore the Vietnamese culture under my own reflection and express my opinions about cultural variation discussion in international environments. At first, there is a variety of important factors that influenced Vietnamese culture but family is the most important point. In fact, a typical Viet family includes grandparents, parents and children living together under a same roof.
Vietnamese people eat three meals a day and each meal has a different kind of taste. For breakfast, for example, Vietnamese may have light pho soup which is a Vietnamese soup made with a broth, rice (or rice noodles), and some kind of meat (usually beef or chicken). The other two meals may be the same also, because Vietnamese people work all day for the living and are not wealthy. Since we eat almost the same meal every day, we would get use to eat same food and it would get boring to eat it. To prevent this, the food in each dish has many different kind of colors and simple changes are made, like mixing a little cilantro with the soup to increase the taste.
My mother is one of those selfless people,who, through her everyday actions, always has a positive impact on my life. From the wise advice given from time to time to the small lectures imparted when I do something "wrong" she proves that her own life experiences have helped her to make me a better person than she was at my age. I moved to the U.S. from my native El Salvador in my early youth, and had difficulties due to my inability to speak any English. This, my mother taught me, was a moment to prove my true potential and ability to adapt and succeed. The first time I went to school, at the start of my second grade year, it was tough for me to try to be social since I didn't know how to interact.