...United States Census reported that Westminster had a population of 89,701 with a population density was 8,926.5 people per square mile”, (Westminster Wikipedia entry, 2014). 29.6% of the population is between the ages of 35-54. "Most people were hospitalized due to diseases and disorders of the circulatory system", (OC Health Info, 2011). Industry overview of Westminster is comprised of small businesses and services. Majority of adult population reported that their health was good, very good, or excellent. Summary of Assessment Population Economic Status Assessment The total population of Westminster in 2010 was 89,701 people. “The 2010 census shows racial makeup of Westminster was 32,037 White, 849 African American, 397 Native American, 42,597 Asian, 361 Pacific Islander, 10,229 from other races, Hispanic or Latino of any race were 21,176 persons, and 3,231 from two or more races”, (Westminster Wikipedia entry, 2014). “40.2% of the population is comprised if Vietnamese Americans making Westminster the highest concentration of Vietnamese Americans in the country” (Westminster Wikipedia entry, 2014). Westminster’s median household income has improved since 2000 from $49.150 to $54,780 with 15.3% of the population living under the federal poverty line”, (Westminster Wikipedia entry, 2014). Neighborhood/Community Safety Inventory Westminster is located in southern California with the annual average temperature at 64.3 F. Westminster has major freeways that pass through...
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...conflict within societies of Eastern and Western countries. Although Vietnamese women living in the United States have equal access to jobs and education and are able to be independent, they still choose to “incorporate the new realities of their lives into the ideological confines of the traditional family system” (Kibria 109). Tradition mandates that women are the support system of principles and values of the traditional Vietnamese family system (137). While Vietnamese women are more reserved and submissive to their husbands, Vietnamese-American women have discovered the strength and power to be the central figure within the newly defined collective household in order to survive and provide for the children’s future. According to Confucianism, the family line is patriarchal and the man is to be obeyed. Women were expected to follow the three respects—her father, her husband and her eldest son; if not, the consequences were severe. Having women stay at home with the children is a way of life in mainstream Asian countries. In Asia, a woman would not and could not leave her parent's home until she is married, then she would live with and care for her husband's family. An unwed woman living on her own would be considered shameful and disgraceful to her family in Asian culture. Unlike the strict traditional ways of Confucianism, Vietnamese families are orderly and emotional (Freeman 88). Within the traditional Vietnamese family, the “disciplined authority of and obligation to the father...
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...of Motives. Berkeley: U of California P, 1969). In this paper I will explain the rhetorical situation where I used the rhetorical situation to help Same Day Restaurant Distribution, Inc. establish their business in the Vietnamese community. I will be explaining the Exigence of the problem that needs to be solved, the Audience will be the people that I need to address in order to solve the problem, and the Constraint that inhibit my ability to persuade the audience. I am currently interning at a restaurant distribution supply company called Same Day Restaurant Distribution, Inc. located in the heart of Westminster. Westminster has the biggest Vietnamese population second to the country of Vietnam. The area is called Little Saigon. There are many restaurants and mom and pop shops in Little Saigon, none of which Same Day distributes to. The Vietnamese community will only work with other Asians or Vietnamese businesses; Same Day does not have any Vietnamese employees. Because I had come to America as a refugee and have lived in Westminster for the pass 35 years, I understand the community very well. I can relate to their experiences and their needs. The majority of the Vietnamese people who came to America in the 80’s were refugees. The main reason the Vietnamese...
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...Research Paper for SOC 350 National University 25 November 2012 The Vietnamese Americans’ Successful Transition to the United States Group of Vietnamese immigrants started after 1975 to the United States started after the Vietnam War. Early immigrants were refugee boat people (refers to refugees, illegal immigrants or asylum seekers immigrate in numbers in small boat fleeing persecution or poverty). Forced to flee from their mother country and often drive into poor town neighborhoods, these newcomers have yet managed to establish tough communities in a short amount of time. More than sixty percent of Vietnamese Americans reside in the states of California, Texas, Washington , Florida and Virginia. (Rothenberg 205) As a fairly recent immigrant group, most Vietnamese Americans are either first- or second-generation Americans. They have the lowest division of people with more than one race between the major Asian American groups. As many as one million people who are five years and older speak Vietnamese at home, making it the seventh-most spoken language in the United States. As refugees, Vietnamese Americans have some of the top rates of naturalization in the 2006 American Community Survey, 72% of foreign-born Vietnamese are naturalized US citizens; this collective with the 36% who are born in the United States makes 82% of them United States citizen in total. Of those born outside the United States, 46.5% entered before 1990, 38.8% between...
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...immigrants from across the world. America’s diverse population demands that health care workers be culturally competent (Edelman et al, 2014). In order to be culturally competent, the patient’s health traditions should be addressed as they relate to their ethnicity, religion, and heritage. This can be achieved by completion of the Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT). The Heritage Assessment Tool allows health care professionals, especially nurses, to have improved patient-nurse relationships and allows the patient to be treated as a whole being with respect to their beliefs and traditions. This paper will discuss the usefulness of applying the HAT as it evaluates the needs of three diverse families. The families of Vietnamese Americans, Mexican Americans, and Italian Americans will be discussed to identify the differences in health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. The families’ health traditions based on their cultural heritage will also be identified. Usefulness of Applying the Heritage Assessment Tool The Heritage Assessment tool evaluates the degree to which an individual lives by their cultural beliefs and traditions. The questionnaire contains 29 questions to help determine if a person is traditional in their culture or if they are more acculturated with less compliance to their traditional practices. The questions examine family relationships, religious beliefs, ethnic traditions and beliefs. The tool brings awareness to the many culturally based health...
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...Then we have been to the Adult school to learn English for a year to advantage our English and now we are in the college students. My sister and I do have many friends who come from many countries in the world; we use the English to communicate with our friends and understand them. Like my sister, I feel confident with my English even though somehow I speak not very well; I practice English everyday, in everywhere. I can communicate with my teachers, my doctors, my customers, my friends or someone else by English, and I independent on using English; I am happy about that. Communicating in English is the most important for everyone include immigrants in America so that it can become essential part to connect all people together in the U.S...
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...shape human behaviors and determine what individuals will do to maintain their health status, how they will care for themselves, and others who become ill, and where and from whom they will seek health care (Edelman & Mandle, 2009, p. 34) Health professionals need to be cultural competent, understanding and appreciating one’s beliefs to “work and function effectively with people having different values, beliefs, and ideas about nursing, health, caring, wellness, illness, death, and disabilities (Edelman & Mandle, 2009).” For this paper, three families of different cultures and or ethnic groups where interviewed using the Heritage Assessment Tool. This paper will highlight areas of the Arab American, Panamanian American and Asian American regarding how maintaining their health, protecting their health and restoring their health is influenced by cultural values. The Heritage Assessment Tool is comprised of 29 questions that gives an individual, such as a health care professional, the ability to see the person as a whole when caring for them and being able to see the culture values, beliefs, and traditions one holds in regards to their health. It helps the health professional develop a care plan that will incorporate the patients beliefs and traditions in their ethnic group and or religion. A group of questions asked in the Heritage Assessment Tool that represents a significant factor...
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...and has not received and prenatal care until now. The nurse is recommending she have frequent prenatal visits to monitor her problems. She refuses to have any more prenatal care and wants to have a midwife deliver her baby at home. The nurse needs to provide education and work out a care plan that would be acceptable with the patient to maintain the safety of the patient and her unborn child. Cultural Brokering in health care: Is defined as "a health care intervention through which the professional increasingly uses cultural and health science knowledge and skills to negotiate with the client and the health care system for an effective, beneficial health care plan" (National Center for Cultural Competence, 2006). Example- An elder Vietnamese was admitted into a...
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...child has clearly developed some sentence-building capacity by this stage and can get the word order correct. By the age of two-and-a-half years, the child’s vocabulary is expanding rapidly and the child is initiating more talk. By three, the vocabulary has grown to hundreds of words and pronunciation has become closer to the form of adult language. The child’s linguistic production, is mostly a matter of trying out constructions and testing whether they work or not. For the vast majority of children, no one provides any instruction on how to speak the language. It is simply not possible that the child is acquiring the language principally through a process of imitating adult speech. Certainly, children can be heard to repeat versions of what adults say on occasion and they are clearly in the process of adopting a lot of vocabulary from the speech they hear. The language a child learns is not genetically inherited, but is acquired in a particular language-using environment. It is difficult for me to understand whether a child whose parents speak Vietnamese will live in an American-speaking environment. Will the child speak Vietnamese or American? Similar evidence against imitation as the basis f child’s speech production has been found in studies of the syntactic structures used by children. In the formation of questions and the use of negatives, there appear to be three identifiable stages. The ages at which children go through these stages can vary quite a bit, but the general...
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...They think they need to speak louder or slower so we can understand what they are saying. I would get so offended when someone asks me if I spoke English. I would give them a glare and sometimes even pretend I do not speak English so I don’t have to interact with them. For some reason, many clients think we, as a Vietnamese culture, all work in a nail salon because it is our only job we can do without speaking English. I felt they were discriminating us for being Vietnamese. Discrimination as Beebe, Beebe, and Redmond implies, “Unfair or inappropriate treatment of people based on their group membership” (2010, p.91). They would get offended when we start speaking Vietnamese in front of them. Some would tell us it was very unprofessional of us to be speaking a different language when we are working on client. Then there are some who jokes around and tell us we are talking about them. I prefer the second situation. It’s probably the way they say it. When they make it as a joke, it sounds friendlier than when they are just saying out right that it is rude for us to speak in Vietnamese. I usually rudely reply, in perfect English, “It should not matter what language I speak to my co-workers as long as we are doing our job...
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...cultural, and religious heritage. The tool is helpful in assessing how deeply a person is tied to their traditions, and can help nurses become culturally competent. The greater the number of positive responses reflects how closely one is tied to their particular heritage. Once the history is learned and the degree which one identifies with the tradition is discovered, the focus is placed on discovering the role that the tradition plays in the situation (Culture Guide, 2014). Family Interviews I interviewed three families from different cultures to see how closely they were bound to their heritage. The families originally were from China, Vietnam, and England. The families all moved to the United States when the adults were middle age and the children were young adults. While the children seemed to adapt and accept medical values from the United States, the parents stayed true to the cultures and traditions from their own country. Health Maintenance Health maintenance refers to what the individual must do to maintain health. There may be special food, clothing, or exercises that one must do or...
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...Gabriella Hatzopoulos War & Society Uniting Tactics, Divisive Consequences Rape, torture and murder against innocent civilians- what could cause someone to do such a thing? The My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War was a result of a war tactic that continues to be utilized today: racism and dehumanization of the enemy. This strategy, employed by the Armed Forces and facilitated by the media back on American soil has proven to be dangerous in that it causes both soldiers and civilians to treat an entire group as subhuman and unworthy of empathy. We can see this in the My Lai Massacre and through the persistent hare crimes against Muslims during the United States’ current “war on terror.” On March 16 1968, 140 men of the American Charlie Company entered the village of My Lai and were ordered to kill whoever they saw. There was the belief that the province of Quang Ngai where My Lai was located was a stronghold for Vietcong guerillas. After increasing frustration with losing their soldiers and not progressing in the war as much as they’d like, the group took their anger out on what was thought was a village of Vietcong enemies. It was the first chance they had to meet the enemy face to face instead of through grenades and booby traps and finally get even. Lieutenant William L. Calley ordered a search and destroy mission and urged that anyone in My Lai was to be considered connected to the Vietcong in some way, and should be killed. Though no guerillas were found when...
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...summary Child Development 10H The video is about five American girls: Corrie, Toby, Amber, Aisha, and Haibinh and how they confront the challenges of growing up female in America. While revealing differences in race and class they take us through each of their stories. I also noticed that these girls have in common self-awareness and determination to be themselves. From first loves to parental expectations to the gap between poverty and wealth, the teenagers of 5 Girls facing dilemmas shaped by society's ideas about young women as they experience daily changes in their lives. Corrie is intellectual and openly bisexual, from Chicago's upper middle-class who struggles to connect with her very religious father since revealing her sexuality to him. Amber is an honor roll on Chicago's Southside, a world apart from Corrie's world. Not only must she deal with societies' misconceptions of her, based on her race and class, but also the challenges that comes when she is forced to live on her own. Aisha is a high-achieving black teenager in a Catholic girls' school, a basketball star that fights to stand her ground in the face of a loving but over protective and demanding father. Haibinh came to the U.S. from Vietnam when she was ten. A high school sophomore who excels in school and is a community leader, she struggles with the conflicting demands of holding on to her Vietnamese heritage while fitting in to American culture. Toby is the active 12-year-old daughter of doctors who...
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...There are certain types of diseases that are the sole reason immigrants are not allowed to enter the United States. Also, to make this journey, the potential immigrants must be able to travel that distance. The adults must be able to afford the transportation and be physically strong enough. Thus meaning that the infants have to be healthy enough themselves for any conditions they might face that they are not normally exposed to (Fennelly, 2005). Both these factors are possible reasons why infants that arrive here as immigrants are healthier than native born infants. Another theory behind why there is generally a healthier population of immigrants in this country than native United States citizens, is the hygiene hypothesis. This states that individuals that exposed at a young age, such as infancy, to a relatively dirty air environment, would fare better against respiratory infections (Kolker, 2011). Thus meaning that if their previous place of residence was in closer contact with farm animals and other pollutants in the air, they could be more resistant to respiratory affecting factors than native U.S. citizens. Both of these ideas could be the reasoning for healthier infants, which as time goes on, it relates to healthier immigrant adults. Although 47% of Mexican-American families with an infant live in a household that is considered of low socioeconomic status, the births from Latino women immigrants are frequently strong and healthy, when compared to other groups of ethnicity...
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...“Patchworking Households in the Economy” Nazli Kibria argues that age and gender tension in the Vietnamese immigrant/Vietnamese American family could be explained by the interaction of the patriarchal structure of the family and the new strategies employed by family to improve their socioeconomic position in the US. I personally agree with Kibria to a certain extent. Through my interviews of people I did find some tension because of patchworking. On the other hand I also found patchworking to be something that brought families and communities closer together. I also found that patchworking could also form family like bonds between people that are not related. When the Vietnamese first arrived in the United States they were amazed at the amount of economic freedom that was in the United States compared to Vietnam. They were especially amazed in the ability to engage in business activities freely something that they could not do in Communist Vietnam. Among the amazement was a sense of worry. In Vietnam a person could earn enough for everyone. “Here, people need more; everyone needs to get a TV, a car, a house. Here I work very hard and very long, and still I’m not sure, do I have enough money? Because there’s always something more I have to buy” (Kibria 74). In a sense when they were in Vietnam they had to worry about the communist, after escaping they now have to worry about money. Vietnamese Americans view on economic life in United States was uneasy. On one hand they liked the freedom...
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