Why Are Names So Important When It Comes To Heritage And Identity?
Part A) Task 1
I found the quote by the musician Yo-Yo-Ma very interesting because I cannot only relate to it but I think I fully understand it. I chose this quote because it is based around music and that makes me understand it better. Yo-Yo-Ma is also a famous American musician witch I have heard of before. In the quote, he compares different types of music with different type of people. That everyone has their own type of music with different rhythm, life, language and heritage and that you need to learn how to be more open and adaptive to the world around us .
Part A) Task 2
Why are names so important when it comes to heritage and identity? Names has always been important, not only for knowing whom you are, but to also have an identity …show more content…
My family and I had decided to try to escape. The Vietnamese war had just started, . we We lived in Can Tho which was I city in the south. We wore quite lucky to live in the south when the war started. The south was now ruled by USA which where against communism, just like us. Nevertheless, my parents did not want to live in a war zone. Unlike the rest of the people that wanted to move, we had a good amount of money and all the right resources to actually move. We had decided to move to Washington, USA. We wore positive to how the government ruled The the United States. Since we had a big amount of money, it was not hard to get to USA. We arrived there safely. My dad had bought a house a week before, so when we arrived it was all done. The house was red with a big balcony and a garage. My room was in the basement, I started to pack up my things. The school I was going to was called Belltown high-school witch was right near the Space Needle. The space needle is a high tower that was built in 1962. We lived right outside of Seattle, so it was a forty-minute drive to the school. I went to school a week after we had settled …show more content…
I did not know that much English since we had not had any English lessons in school in Vietnam. Because of that, I had a quite thick Vietnamese accent, . some Some of my classmates thought it was somewhat normal, but others started to make fun of me. At first, I did not care, but when they started to what I would call to bully me, I became quite irritated and sad. They started bullying me for everything: my accent, my stereotype and even how I looked. We tried everything we could, my family and I, but it did not
I found the quote by the musician Yo-Yo-Ma very interesting because I cannot only relate to it but I think I fully understand it. I chose this quote because it is based around music and that makes me understand it better. Yo-Yo-Ma is also a famous American musician witch I have heard of before. In the quote, he compares different types of music with different type of people. That everyone has their own type of music with different rhythm, life, language and heritage and that you need to learn how to be more open and adaptive to the world around us .
Part A) Task 2
Why are names so important when it comes to heritage and identity? Names has always been important, not only for knowing whom you are, but to also have an identity …show more content…
My family and I had decided to try to escape. The Vietnamese war had just started, . we We lived in Can Tho which was I city in the south. We wore quite lucky to live in the south when the war started. The south was now ruled by USA which where against communism, just like us. Nevertheless, my parents did not want to live in a war zone. Unlike the rest of the people that wanted to move, we had a good amount of money and all the right resources to actually move. We had decided to move to Washington, USA. We wore positive to how the government ruled The the United States. Since we had a big amount of money, it was not hard to get to USA. We arrived there safely. My dad had bought a house a week before, so when we arrived it was all done. The house was red with a big balcony and a garage. My room was in the basement, I started to pack up my things. The school I was going to was called Belltown high-school witch was right near the Space Needle. The space needle is a high tower that was built in 1962. We lived right outside of Seattle, so it was a forty-minute drive to the school. I went to school a week after we had settled …show more content…
I did not know that much English since we had not had any English lessons in school in Vietnam. Because of that, I had a quite thick Vietnamese accent, . some Some of my classmates thought it was somewhat normal, but others started to make fun of me. At first, I did not care, but when they started to what I would call to bully me, I became quite irritated and sad. They started bullying me for everything: my accent, my stereotype and even how I looked. We tried everything we could, my family and I, but it did not