My Cultural Identity: From Migration To The United States

Each and every person around the world have a cultural identity, whether they are part of a major race or not. If a person were to look back at their family tree all the way to the roots, they will find that they were part of a diverse cultural group. Sometimes, family history can be lost or unknown due to lack of recorded documents. Even if I do not know much about my family history, it still says a lot about who I am. It is essential to know what our cultural heritage is so that people can understand themselves. Being the first child of my family and born in the United States, I still have a strong cultural influence on me since my parents came to the states a year before my birth. Since my parents immigrated to the United States, I am a first generation Vietnamese American who grew up with all the values and traditions I was raised with under the household.

After my mother and father got married, they began to immigrate to the United States in 1998. My parents came to the United States for a better life for themselves and the rest of the family. In the little rural town of Palacios, the Vietnamese immigrant popular were unusually high. Those who escape the hands of the communist society of Vietnam, settled in an area which became to be known as the Vietnamese village to the locals of Palacios, Texas. All the children who were born from the immigrant families were able to grow up in a culturally rich