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ERIC Number: EJ590677
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0044-7471
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"Splitting Things in Half Is So White!": Conceptions of Family Life and Friendship and the Formation of Ethnic Identity among Second Generation Vietnamese Americans.
Thai, Hung C.
Amerasia Journal, v25 n1 p53-88 1999
Examines the ways Vietnamese Americans form ethnic identity through cultural ideology in interviews with 18 young-adult second-generation Vietnamese Americans. Findings reveal the fluid and complex interplay of culture and identity. These students used cultural ideology to form and recapture ethnic identity. Contains 71 endnotes. (SLD)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Ethnicity, Family Characteristics, Friendship, Identification (Psychology), Immigrants, Racial Identification, Vietnamese People, Young Adults
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Note: Theme issue titled "Second Generation Asian Americans' Ethnic Identity."