This is a photo I took to represent my culutre. Personally I am someone who feels very disconnected with their culutre. My dad is Taiwanese and my mom is Chinese, but was born in Vietnam. Despite the fact that both of them are immigrants I don’t speak Chinese or know much of my culture, which causes my disconnect. I can feel that disconnect when I return to Taiwan and find myself alienated from the family I have there, even from my grandparents. This photo is taken of a red envolope that we have up on our orchid pot. I took it because although we celebrate Chinese New Year, we don’t do it traditionally, and we leave up the envolope all year, almost like a forgotten Christmas decoration. Yet I think the contrast of the sign below, This is Our Happy Place, is a representation of that despite this lack of culture and immersion into American culture we have found a way to carve our own culture into our lives, as a mix of the two of them. I don’t think I’ll ever stop feeling the lack of ties to my culture, but by creating my own I hope to find peace with my identity.
