so i was at the viet cafe shop the other day a while ago just chillin after a long week of work sorta. n there was this cute lil boy running around in there. so i asked him what he doing n where his mom is at in viet...i did'nt get an answer. turns out the kid don't speak viet. don't even know hes viet. his mom told me she did'nt teach him any viet n don't really care if u knows it or not. don't really care if he knows about his culture. maybe im a lil old fashion or becuz i was born in vietnam but i can't imagine me not knowing viet or anything about vietnam. which got me wondering will my nephews know anything about the history of his bloodline? i really hope they find it interesting enough to learn on their own if no one teaches them. even though we live in america. we're known as asian amercian. so the asian still comes first. n i know that our racial background is a fraction of our personality not the sum of it. but i guess im not use to the turning of time.

for me, eh parents just never had time to actually teach me viet.  so yeah all i learned was english.  but um, i'd love to learn viet if someone could teach me.  i've learned some by having viet friends, but i wish i was fluent lol.  but it is great to know about heritage and where one comes from.  sad that some don't teach young ones who they are.  now-a-days ppl who speak various languages as oppose to one language only will get bumped up in terms of jobs and pay.

thats a hard question to answer. my opinion is that it does a lil bit. like i said i feel that ur racial background is only a fraction of what u are. however what makes a culture..well umm a culture? language, food, history, human interaction, and tradition. so by losing ur language u lost a lil bit of that fraction. not to mention certain tradition will be lost becuz of language lost. n when i say being asian i mean the culture not the biology cuz we can't change that. hahaha like the cliche they us to discribe a white wash asian kid.."a twinkie(or banana) yellow on the outside, white on the inside.