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We will gain or lose a part of our culture when we move from a country to another country
Name: My Cao
Class: ELA A30
Date: March 5th, 2014
My Father’s
Family Tree
Tran Van Canh
(Grandfather)
Cao Quoc
Hung (Father)
Cao Thanh Lan
(Aunty)
Nguyen Van
Hung
(Husband)
Phan Ngoc
Tam (Wife)
Cao My
(Daughter)
Cao Thi Than
(Grandmother)
Cao Minh
(Son)
Cao Kim Hue
(Aunty)
Nguyen Van
Tan (Husband)
Nguyen Cao
Truong (Son)
My Mother’s
Family Tree
Phan Thanh
Phat
(Grandfather)
Phan Thi Trien
(Aunty)
Bui Van Tham
(Husband)
Phan Thanh
Minh (Uncle)
Lai Thi Phan
(wife)
Bui Kim (son)
Phan Thanh
Tan (Uncle)
Nguyen Thi Lua
(wife)
Phan Minh Dat
(Son)
Nguyen Thi
Nguyen
(Grandmother)
Phan Ngoc Tam
(my mother)
Phan Thi Thu
(Aunty)
Nguyen Van
Trinh
(husband)
Phan Thi Ngoc
(daughter)
Cao Quoc Hung
(husband)
Nguyen Hieu
Xuan Truong
(Daughter)
Cao My
(Daughter)
Cao Minh
(Son)
My Family
Tree
Cao Quoc
Hung
(Father)
Phan
Ngoc Tam
(mother)
Cao My
(daughter)
Cao Minh
(son)
Country: Vietnam
Capital city: HANOI
Language: Vietnamese
Government Style: Communist
Government
My paternal side and maternal side are come from the same country –
Vietnam; the country with the Communism Government and that is the
single government.
PATERNAL SIDE:
My father’s parents are Vietnamese and we are speaking
our language – Vietnamese. Around fifty – year ago, based
on the traditionally, my grandparents met each other
through a referrer. They were living in a small town and
their family knew another family really well.
MATERNAL SIDE:
My mother’s family came from the same town with my
father’s family in Vietnam and they are also speaking
Vietnamese. I do not know how my grandparents met one
another because it seemed a secret and I could not get the
information from my mother.
eighteen – years ago, when my mother is
being an elementary teacher and my father was a
worker. They went a party that was hold by their
friend and they met together. They fail in love
with one another and they decided to get marry.
My parents’ family came from the same province
in Vietnam; my dad’s family moved to the capital
for the better living condition; my mom, she
moved to the same city for education and job.
That is why they can have the same friends and
they could know each other.
 About
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When we move from a country to another country, we will
lose some cultural elements of our heritage that were given
up.
The first elements which was loss from our culture is
language. We are living in Canada and we used English as
the main language. We are keeping to used our own
language at home but not much.
The third element that we
were loss from our cultural is
the knowledge of traditional
music. The traditional music is
a heritage and a spiritual food
for people. With an
immigrated family, we do not
have time to spend for music;
we used the most time in a
day for work, school and take
care of our life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx3t1rrGZrY
 When
we lose something it’s means we
could gain something new. We lose
some of the heritage that the culture
has given us, but we also gain some
new things from the dominant culture.
What we have gained first from the
new culture is language. Before we
move to Canada, we were using only
one language – Vietnamese; but when
we are living here, we need to learn
The second heritage that we gained in
Canada is the holidays. In Canada, we
do not have the Lunar New Year what we
have in Vietnam, but we have Christmas
Holiday (Winter Break). Also, we have
learned about Canada’s and Easter in
here
The third new thing that we
have learned from Canadian
people is the polite of culture.
Every people are equal and
need to line up and waiting for
their turn. That is what we
need to know when we go to
public place.
 My
personal historical was identified as
Vietnamese with my parent are Vietnamese.
My paternal side and my maternal side are
Vietnamese as well. That made my
background in historical identity is
Vietnamese Culture.
 My modern was identified as Vietnamese but I want to identify
myself as Canadian. Because I am looking more similar to
Vietnam people (Asian). I was living 13 – year in my country
and I had my mother tongue is Vietnamese. I moved to Canada
when I was almost 14 – year of age and I will grow up in here;
my second language is English.
Become a Canadian mean we are living in Canada and
we were treated as a resident. Being Canadian means
that we can have all the rights what every Canada’s
citizens could have, such as: freedom in speech, freedom
of movements and the better education. Also, we could
have the benefit that allow for everyone as health care,
children benefit, and the protection. It means that we
could have all the interest from government what same
with Canadian citizens.