'Catfish and Mandala\r'

'The American novelist Thomas Wolfe erstwhile wrote, â€Å"You cant go home again”. Andrew Pham proved that wrong. â€Å"Andrew X. Pham, who came to the unite States when he was ten years old as a ‘boat person, returned to Vietnam 20 years ulterior on an extended bike trip in order to understand better his cultural individuation” (Pearl 208). Despite the fact that Pham, like so umteen others of his generation, were forced to flee Vietnam, somehow they never muddled the sense of individuality with the homeland they only remembered as children.\r\nPham, as an insightful writer, decided it was time for him to visit oneself out if there still exists a couple between him as a Viet-American and his homeland. Pham travels to Vietnam to search for his grow in hopes to construct his identity. For Pham in the search of his identity he flies to Vietnam to ride his bike, and also to find his roots. As he first gets off the sheet he is already is immediately receiv ing dirty aware of others who looks at him disdainfully because he is a â€Å"viet-kieu” which way of life foreign Vietnamese.\r\n thusly as he is at the baggage cite while retrieving his luggage, to his amazement he sees the workers tear up his bike that had been stuck in the claim belt. That hit a soft spot in him because that bike had been through so much with Pham. From thence on his impressions of Vietnamese pack were bad, He developed a negative impression of Vietnamese people and he automatically thought of them as a lower class persons than Americans human than he was. Pham in order to go back to his roots postulate to humble himself as a true Vietnamese. Then he will understand his identity and deem his culture.\r\n'