American Dream Boat

I can honestly say I enjoyed this article.  I think it is great insight to Vietnamese culture and tradition.  It should also make the average American student think twice before making fun of the foreign exchange student.  All they want is to be accepted just as everybody else does when they go to school.  And nobody knows the hardships they may of had to go through to get here.  It shows that we should be thankful that we have annoying parents that can keep us grounded and won’t let us forget where we came from.  It seems that despite her father’s fears about Asians marrying Americans, that this marriage will last.  Her fiance was great enough to understand and embrace her heritage and even welcome it into their wedding day.  I think it’s great that her family still allowed her to get married even though her grandmother had jist died.  She still followed tradition yet moved on with her life, which is what her grandmother would have wanted.