Cultural Values In Vietnamese Culture

Little Saigon in Garden Grove has the highest population of Vietnamese living in the United States. In fact, it is the highest number of Vietnamese living outside of Vietnam. How did they retain their language and cultural practices virtually unchanged after they immigrated to the United States? The preserve their culture and traditions and continue to teach it to the following generations that follows. Although, some of the children are born here they are still fluent on their Vietnamese language and carry on with their heritage. Americanized but still following the footsteps of their own ethnic group, most of my experience working in the airport we often come across a family of Vietnamese traveling together and they bring goods that it’s …show more content…
They are strongly attached to their own customs and tradition and they don’t want to change it a bit, that is one good reason that they still retain their cultural heritage and identity. This can be related to integration, while maintaining their own tradition they are also part of American community here in the United States. Cultural relativism can be also an argument why Vietnamese living in Garden Grove has preserved their culture. They might view that American culture is totally different from their own and it could be wrong to them. For example, divorced is widely accepted in American culture, to them is could be wrong because of traditional family values. What considered right in American culture can be wrong in Vietnamese culture and vice versa. This might be one of the reason why they kept a tight community and continue to practice their own way of life. Discrimination can take place also if they trying to fit into American culture and their features does not, it just makes them look like an outcast from their own community. In order to avoid being discrimated they stick with their own community, work with their own people and stay in their own comfort