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| Title: | Nguyen, Gennie Thi. Home is where rice is: maintaining and transforming cultural identity beyond the borders of Vietnam |
| Authors: | Thi Nguyen, Gennie |
| Keywords: | Vietnamese-Americans
Cultural identity
Ethnic identity
Food as cultural heritage
Acculturation
Cultural symbols
Rice
Diasporas
Food traditions
Vietnamese identity |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology |
| Citation: | Thi Nguyen, Gennie (2007). Home is where rice is: maintaining and transforming cultural identity beyond the borders of Vietnam. -- Lambda Alpha Journal, v.37, p.25-38. |
| Series/Report no.: | LAJ
v.37 |
| Abstract: | This paper discusses how persisting Vietnamese foodways are critical
to sustaining cultural identity for Vietnamese refugees. For any immigrant group,
traditional foods represent a connection to the past, function to maintain ethnic
identity, and assist in reducing the effects of acculturation (Kilcik 1984). Vietnamese
food is not only important for the maintenance of identity for refugees
who fled Vietnam in search of asylum, but also for their descendents. Vietnamese
food acts as a shared symbol that helps hold Vietnamese communities together.
Persisting Vietnamese foodways is an important way for descendents of displaced
Vietnamese to form their ethnic cultural identity, since they were not acculturated
in Vietnam. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10057/2142 |
| ISSN: | 0047-3928 |
| Appears in Collections: | Lambda Alpha Journal, v.37, 2007
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