1. My cultural background is Vietnamese.
2. My parent, grandparents, and great-great parents came from Vietnam.
3. When we moved to America about 8 years old. My grandparents help us find living areas. We was poor because the Vietnamese money is not very big compare to United States dollar. We sold our house in Vietnam and brought it here but the budget we almost gone after flight tickets, living expense, rent, cars, and registration fee. My father’s friends help my father found a job in Military Air Crafts Part as a manufactured worker. However, after a year, the place got campus down so my father got laid off. He started to become self- employee, did whatever job to make money support out family. My mother had to study for Nail Technician …show more content…
As a typical Asian, my parents stricter to me more than my brother because girl are susceptible to danger more than guy. My curfew was at 8 pm. I did not have much male friends and could not wear short when I went out. Unlike my brother, my mother taught me how to cook, did more chores and knew to save money when I was very young. I could not hang out with my friends and stayed home to help my mother with family chores. Back then, my mother was not value my education because I am a girl. She had a thought that my responsibility was to get married and take care of my future family. However, I did not believe that I should end up to be same as my mother. Being a housewife is very tough job as no socialize, no jobs, no joy and work like a nanny for whole family. Therefore, the family’s beliefs did not affect my goal to be an independent and educated woman.
7. Growing up in a crowdy neighborhood, I saw that every single family favored man more than woman. The woman had to work, took care of children, did not have high education, and be responsible for house chores. I felt like it was not fair as the woman had so much pressure on herself. At that moment, I thought if I studied harder and had higher education, I would not end up in same place as