Vietnamese Immigration Families Research Paper

Vietnamese Immigration Families
Nowadays, according to Chris Brown, Codi L. Schale and Johana E. Nilsion which are authors of article “Vietnamese Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Mental Health”, the Vietnamese immigrants’ population to 2006 is 1.1 million people. Therefore they become the fifth largest immigrant community in the United States of America (66). The immigration officially began after the fall in Vietnam War in 1975; the South of Vietnam was taken by the North Communism’s government. A lot of Vietnamese have left the country and came to the United States with the hope that they increasing their living and working condition. They have sought opportunities to full fill their dreams in the golden land where their children can have
U.S.A is a country with various kinds of nations in the world. Every nation has their own culture; however, they cannot live well in a society either speaking their own language or using our culture behaviors. Ages is very important component for acculturation, the older people are the harder they can adapt new things. Vietnamese are very conservative in keeping their culture; moreover many, many Vietnamese elders refuse acculturation which will affect a lot on development of the smaller generation in a family. Therefore, Vietnamese immigrant family will have hard times to digest whole acculturation
Western and Eastern culture differ from each other. The culture barriers gain the misunderstood between the native and the immigration. For example, kisses and hugs between friends are very common in Western culture, but they are inappropriate Eastern culture. They just do that when they are in a family or lovers. People can easily feel shock. In addition, Imogene C. Brower reveals in his article “Counseling” that Vietnamese people use to call each other by their given name not by their last name like Americans, and Vietnamese women will not take husband’s family name as their family names (646); therefore, Vietnamese people easily gain misunderstanding by calling teachers or elders by their first name, or calling a married woman by her own family names. Natives will feel like they don’t receive any respect. Another example, in the U.S, people do not teach their children in hard way. They almost never hit the children when they make a mistakes or do something wrong. However, Asian families teach their children in a hard way. They punish the kids by hitting on their hands, or on bottoms because they believe that will tame the wild which hides somewhere inside the kids. However, because of the opposing of method, Vietnamese parents will be unintended involving to justice which may report by American