Nguyen, Gennie Thi. Home is where rice is: maintaining and transforming cultural identity beyond the borders of Vietnam

dc.contributor.author	Thi Nguyen, Gennie
dc.date.accessioned	2009-09-09T23:16:23Z
dc.date.available	2009-09-09T23:16:23Z
dc.date.issued	2007
dc.identifier.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.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0047-3928
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/2142
dc.description.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.	en
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dc.language	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Wichita State University. Department of Anthropology	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	LAJ	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	v.37	en
dc.subject	Vietnamese-Americans	en
dc.subject	Cultural identity	en
dc.subject	Ethnic identity	en
dc.subject	Food as cultural heritage	en
dc.subject	Acculturation	en
dc.subject	Cultural symbols	en
dc.subject	Rice	en
dc.subject	Diasporas	en
dc.subject	Food traditions	en
dc.subject	Vietnamese identity	en
dc.title	Nguyen, Gennie Thi. Home is where rice is: maintaining and transforming cultural identity beyond the borders of Vietnam	en
dc.type	Article	en