My parents are immigrants from Laos. Since they've been here, for almost 30 years, they haven't fully adapted to the Western culture. It's rather hard to switch between the two sometimes, but somehow, I manage to do it anyway. I sense that I'm losing my ties with my ethnicity and its culture. I am a rebel in this sense, probably the biggest one in my family, to rebel against the original traditions. I avoid the ceremonies thrown at all cost. I feel bad, but it doesn't match up to my expectations. Funny, I don't even know what my expectations of the Hmong or their traditions are... Contradicting myself, but oh well. How about you? TIA for your answers.
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My family is from Haiti and I'm first generation born in America. I feel like I'm losing touch of my Haitian culture too. I grew up in a Haitian house. I learned to speak the language and I ate the food. I went to a Haitian Catholic church. I can honestly say that I become a blend of both culture. To some extent I hold my Haitian culture and this American culture that I adopted. When I went off to school I was slowly forgetting the language because I spoke English all the time. So I made more Haitian friends and spoke in Creole when possible. My sister and I have this thing where we switch or mix the languages up. Now I'm worry about what if I marry a non-Haitian? How would that affect my culture and my future kids? I'm currently dating this Italian-American man and he is the first person I ever dated out of my race or ethnicity. But so far he seem very accepting of my culture.
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Loas culture is awesome, quite being a buc-haney. lol. I adopted the laotian culture because my daughter is laos. i love how they love to have fun and are always having hall parties. my favorite food is laos i love some papaya salad (thamahune) and kapuit (soup). You are a beautiful people with an awesome culture. It would be a shame if you lost that culture and became another american sheep. Hold on to your roots. What expectations? They only want the best for their family from what i see. That is all they expect. I like the language too it sounds like ghetto thai. lol hunnah oh well. you can be americanized and hold onto your culture, just learn how to balance the 2 and stay respectful of your ancestry. bye
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