Saigon

Thank you for sharing

Thank you for being here!

Bánh hỏi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1nh_h%E1%BB%8Fi

It's a Vietnamese type of very thin vermicelli. What I specifically like about them is that they are so thin they can be "boiled" just in a few minutes of water boiled in an electric kettle, no need to actually cook them in a pan. Yes, I am lazy ha ha

I posted this community on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and !communitypromo@lemmy.ca , I'll wait for a few more people to subscribe to it before starting posting. Should be okay in a few days.

Thank you for the post!

Short introduction on my side: 2nd generation Vietnamese, my parents left Vietnam in the 80s due to the war and its aftermath. Saigon, my username, is the former name of the capital of South Vietnam, renamed Ho-Chi-Minh city after the war.

Born and raised in Europe.

Happy to be here, even if the activity is not that high, I'm sure it will still be a nice place to chat!

Definitely. I always speak Vietnamese with my parents at home, because that's their mother tongue and it just feels much closer than speaking French.

Growing up as an immigrant is a unique experience, at one point one of my previous girlfriends said "you should stop with your immigrant things". I knew it was over (for other reasons too, but that was one of them)

My current partner also grew up abroad, so she knows what that is like to be a foreigner in another country. We also live in a country where none of us are locals. But we're both fine with that, because we know how it is.

I real the wall of text, very interesting

It probably depends on which ones are the two countries, in your case it's even more complex as you seem to support Taiwan.

I'm second generation Vietnamese, and while I like the Vietnamese language and culture, I'm still closer to the country where I was born, grew up and spent basically my whole life.

Also Vietnam being a one party state that my parents left doesn't really encourages me to fight for it.

That's harsh, sorry to hear...

Not everybody knows English, I've been to the Dutch countryside where quite a few people aren't comfortable speaking English. And even if they were, it's not their native language, so if you never speak you will always be less integrated.

Denmark and the other Nordics are a bit in the same situation, of course people know English there, but not knowing the local language is still frowned upon.

Yeah, that's definitely a valid concern x)

Well, as you can guess, this is an account I created mostly to discuss being a second generation Asian (that's usually some information I don't tell on my main account). I created it after seeing your post (to be honest, it was at the back of my head for a bit after seeing some of your posts).

We can wait for a bit if you prefer to see if I'm trustworthy.