People in a community often feel strong ties to others in the community through shared histories and cultures. In reading ""Whose Community Is It Anyway? Overseas Vietnamese Negotiating their Cultural and Political Identity-The Case of Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen" I felt how community that takes on organizational ideal can be very frustrating. The proponents for "Little Saigon" name for the business district feels that "Little Saigon" is the name that connects Vietnamese Americans to others and it is an identity that they have created here in America. Because they feel so strongly about this, they fail to notice that other Vietnamese feels different. Just because everyone belongs to the same ethnic community does not mean everyone thinks and behave the same ways. Proponents of the name "Little Saigon" instead of doings things respectably and honorably have taking to name calling and outrageous remarks against Madison Nguyen to force their ideal across and get their way.
Do you think that because you feel that because you belong to an ethnic community, do you have to give in to the ways of the "elders" that feel their views are the only views, or do you think that the emerging views and ideal in today's youthful ethnic community is the correct choice, and it is up to them to help change the "old traditional" views that have sometimes impede change in the community?0
Work Cited:
Valverde, K.L.C. (2013). Trans nationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
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