Vietnamese Family Research Paper

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While Vietnam was at war, many refugees fled to America to escape communism and suffering. My parents came after the war so that they could create a better life for themselves and their children. With that, growing up in a family whom still holds old traditions and customs has been extremely hard for myself. With the need to adapt to the American lifestyle in order to survive, my mother encouraged me and my siblings to abandon our first language so that we could succeed academically in an American school system, but holds consequences. The strict traditional Vietnamese household and community that I was raised in created a wall between myself and my family due to cultural and language differences which shaped me as a person that I am now.
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