HII, i’m Jannet Nguyen (probably thinking about how many times or people you know with that same last name), it an extremely common Vietnamese last name, and i am Vietnamese. Well looking at me you wouldn’t typically guess that i am, because i’m mixed, but both of my parents were born and raised in Vietnam. My parents had me after they come to the United States, so i consider myself an asian american.
In my culture we eat a lot of rice, everyday. We cook a lot, rice with some meat and lot of veggies. I personally love rice, but Vietnamese food isn’t my favorite, just because i don’t eat any other meats other than seafood and a lot of our meal are made with pork and beef. But if you want to try Vietnamese food try PHO, that’s is our well known rice noddle soup.
We are buddhist, but we are not religious, like i don’t even know what buddhism is, my parents are semi religious but never pushed it on us. The only thing i see my parents doing is go to the temple for the American new years and the Chinese new years (they do give us a red envelope ), and light an incense every morning and place it in the shrine.
We are hard workers. A typically vietnamese living America does do nails. My parents owns a nails salon and put me straight to work when was only 9 yeas old. Of course i hated that when i was younger seeing my friends going shopping on the weekends and going to the pool all summer while i was already working. But now that i’m older i’m very grateful that they made me do those things, and understand why they work so hard everyday to suppose their family. 15 years later we are probably the most well known salon at the beaches.
FAMILY we are very family oriented, it is very common for Vietnamese people to live with their parents until they get married(if you’re a female) and to live with your parents forever if you’re a male. I mean i don’t live with my parents anymore because i’m more americanized, but i’m still close by like i still work for them so i see them a lot and live close by to still stop by and steal some groceries. Also my grandmother still work with my parents at the salon because that just what we do, we stay together and build.
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