MY CULTURE IDENTITY

We will gain or lose a part of our culture when we move from a country to another country

Name: My CaoClass: ELA A30Date: March 5th, 2014

My Father’s

Family Tree

Cao Quoc Hung

(Father)

Cao My (Daughter)

Cao Minh (Son)

Phan Ngoc Tam (Wife)

Cao Thanh Lan

(Aunty)

Nguyen Van Hung (Husband)

Cao Kim Hue

(Aunty)

Nguyen Cao Truong

(Son)

Nguyen Van Tan

(Husband)

Tran Van Canh

(Grandfather)

Cao Thi Than

(Grandmother)

My Mother’s Family Tree

Phan Thi Trien (Aunty)

Bui Van Tham

(Husband)

Bui Kim (son)

Phan Thanh Minh (Uncle)

Phan Minh Dat (Son)

Lai Thi Phan (wife)

Phan Thanh Tan (Uncle)

Phan Thi Ngoc

(daughter)

Nguyen Thi Lua (wife)

Phan Thi Thu (Aunty)

Nguyen Hieu Xuan Truong (Daughter)

Nguyen Van Trinh

(husband)

Phan Ngoc Tam (my mother)

Cao My (Daughter)

Cao Quoc Hung

(husband)

Phan Thanh Phat

(Grandfather)

Nguyen Thi Nguyen

(Grandmother)

Cao Minh (Son)

My Family Tree

Cao My (daught

er)

Cao Minh (son)

Cao Quoc Hung

(Father)

Phan Ngoc Tam

(mother)

Country: Vietnam

Capital city: HANOI

Language: Vietnamese

Government Style: Communist Government

My paternal side and maternal side are come from the same country – Vietnam; the country with the Communism Government and that is the single government.

PATERNAL SIDE:My father’s parents are Vietnamese and we are speaking our language – Vietnamese. Around fifty – year ago, based on the traditionally, my grandparents met each other through a referrer. They were living in a small town and their family knew another family really well.

MATERNAL SIDE: My mother’s family came from the same town with my father’s family in Vietnam and they are also speaking Vietnamese. I do not know how my grandparents met one another because it seemed a secret and I could not get the information from my mother.

PERSONAL STORY About eighteen – years ago, when my mother is

being an elementary teacher and my father was a worker. They went a party that was hold by their friend and they met together. They fail in love with one another and they decided to get marry. My parents’ family came from the same province in Vietnam; my dad’s family moved to the capital for the better living condition; my mom, she moved to the same city for education and job. That is why they can have the same friends and they could know each other.

CULTURAL LOSS When we move from a country to another

country, we will lose some cultural elements of our heritage that were given up.

The first elements which was loss from our culture is language. We are living in Canada and we used English as the main language. We are keeping to used our own language at home but not much.

The second element that we was loss from our

culture is the traditional holidays. One of them is

New Year Holiday (Têt Nguyên Đan/Lunar New Year).

In the family, we ignored the lunar new year because

we do not have the day off or the same holiday in

Canada. We do not celebrate the party same with in

Vietnam we were always did for every year.

We lose some of the

traditional activities in

this holiday as design

and give the house a

new look , given

members in the family

the wishes, praying for

a year that will be

better than last year,

etc.

The third element that we were loss from our cultural is the knowledge of traditional music. The traditional music is a heritage and a spiritual food for people. With an immigrated family, we do not have time to spend for music; we used the most time in a day for work, school and take care of our life.

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Cultural Gain When we lose something it’s

means we could gain something new. We lose some of the heritage that the culture has given us, but we also gain some new things from the dominant culture. What we have gained first from the new culture is language. Before we move to Canada, we were using only one language – Vietnamese; but when we are living here, we need to learn and know English – our second language.

The second heritage that we gained in Canada is the holidays. In Canada, we do not have the Lunar New Year what we have in Vietnam, but we have Christmas Holiday (Winter Break). Also, we have learned about Canada’s and Easter in here

The third new thing that we have learned from Canadian people is the polite of culture. Every people are equal and need to line up and waiting for their turn. That is what we need to know when we go to public place.

Personal Historical Identity My personal historical was identified as

Vietnamese with my parent are Vietnamese. My paternal side and my maternal side are Vietnamese as well. That made my background in historical identity is Vietnamese Culture.

Modern Identity My modern was identified as

Vietnamese but I want to identify myself as Canadian. Because I am looking more similar to Vietnam people (Asian). I was living 13 – year in my country and I had my mother tongue is Vietnamese. I moved to Canada when I was almost 14 – year of age and I will grow up in here; my second language is English.

What does it means to be Canadian? Become a Canadian mean we

are living in Canada and we were treated as a resident. Being Canadian means that we can have all the rights what every Canada’s citizens could have, such as: freedom in speech, freedom of movements and the better education. Also, we could have the benefit that allow for everyone as health care, children benefit, and the protection. It means that we could have all the interest from government what same with Canadian citizens.