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Immigrant Stories is a research and archiving project run by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota. Immigrant Stories helps immigrants, refugees, and their family members create digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience.
\n\nThis project defines \"immigrant\" broadly. Our collection contains digital stories from people living outside their country of birth as well as stories created by their children and grandchildren. Immigrant Stories also welcomes stories from international students, international adoptees, and people who do not feel that their stories fit a particular, or just one, category. All stories are important, and we invite you to make a video and share yours with us.
", "title": "Kim Castillo", "title_s": "Kim Castillo", "title_t": "Kim Castillo", "title_search": "Kim Castillo", "title_sort": "kimcastillo", "description": "Kim's father, Thong Tran, was born in Bien Hoa, Vietnam. He fought in the American war in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1985. Kim is married to a man from Nicaragua and has two children. She tries to preserve and maintain her Vietnamese culture through the Vietnamese cuisine she cooks for her family.", "date_created": [ "2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21" ], "date_created_ss": [ "2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21" ], "date_created_sort": "2014", "creator": [ "Castillo, Kim" ], "creator_ss": [ "Castillo, Kim" ], "creator_sort": "castillokim", "notes": "This story was created as part of an optional final project in \"Becoming America(n): Literature by Immigrants of Color,\" taught by Professor Barbara Pierre-Louis at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota during the fall of 2014.", "types": [ "Moving Image" ], "format": [ "Oral histories | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595" ], "format_name": [ "Oral histories" ], "dimensions": "0:04:01", "subject": [ "Origin Vietnam", "Ethnicity Vietnamese" ], "subject_ss": [ "Origin Vietnam", "Ethnicity Vietnamese" ], "language": [ "English" ], "city": [ "St. Paul" ], "state": [ "Minnesota" ], "country": [ "United States" ], "region": [ "Ramsey County" ], "continent": [ "North America" ], "parent_collection": "Immigrant Stories; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/immigrant-stories", "parent_collection_name": "Immigrant Stories", "contributing_organization": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name_s": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contact_information": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center. 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc", "fiscal_sponsor": "This work is made possible through the generous funding of the Digital Public Library of America Digital Hubs Pilot, which is supported by the Digital Public Library of America with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.", "local_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0105" ], "dls_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0105" ], "rights_statement_uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "transcription": "My Father’s Fish Sauce: Maintaining Culture through Cuisine\nKim Castillo Transcription\nMy name is Kim Castillo and my immigrant story begins 28 years ago through my father.\nMy relatives come from Biên Hòa, Vietnam. My father came into the United States a few years\nafter serving in the Vietnam War in 1985. Since my father was only 15 years old when he fought\nin the Vietnam War, he had to wait a few years to come to the United States. He helped the U.S.\nsoldiers fight the communists, so he was promised a permanent residency in the United States. In\norder to complete the task of coming to the United States, my father was asked to build a ship\nthat he would come to the U.S. in, along with other young Vietnamese soldiers. By the time they\nwere finished, my father was old enough to come to the U.S. alone.\nSince my father was only able to bring a few pictures, he maintained his Vietnamese\nheritage the only way he knew how, and that was through Vietnamese cuisine. He taught us this\nculture through cooking traditional Vietnamese dishes. This is how I am able to maintain my\nVietnamese identity. My father and I are able to make our bond much stronger through him\nteaching me how to cook.\nWe have a traditional dish called fish sauce that my father would try teaching me many\ntimes when I was younger, and every time he would bring me into the kitchen to teach me how\nto make this dish, I would pretend I was busy or find something else that I thought was much\nmore important to do. And so, after repeatedly teaching me, you know, after I moved out and got\nmarried, I, you know, love eating Vietnamese cuisine still. So I had called me father one day and\nasked him to give me the recipe for the fish sauce because I didn’t know how to make it. And he\nwas so upset because growing up he had taught me repeatedly to make this fish sauce and I still\ndidn’t know how so, it’s just a little funny story that we share together, and finally I have\nconquered the fish sauce, so that’s one of my greatest accomplishments. And you know, the\nfood, the Vietnamese food is something that has become part of who we are as a family and as a\nVietnamese culture living here in the United States. So now I am able to share this cultural\ntradition through food with my family. My husband and my children. I like to think that my\nchildren will grow up cooking both my food and their father’s food which- their father is from\nNicaragua. And they will be able to share it with their family and their children. And it’s a\nbeautiful thing to be able to share these cultural traits with other family members because with\nfood I am able to hold on to part of my Vietnamese culture when I’m not with my father, and my\nhusband and I are able to share our cultures together. So we’ll split maybe the week up and a\ncouple days we’ll have Vietnamese food and the other half of the week we’ll have Nicaraguan\nfood. So that’s a great thing that we’re able to share both of our cultures with each other and\nwith our children and through this we can we maintain our values and teach them on to our\nchildren for our children to teach them on to their families, just like our fathers and our mothers\ndid for us.", "kaltura_video": "1_jpcwqm8u", "page_count": 0, "record_type": "primary", "first_viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "attachment": "289.pdf", "attachment_format": "pdf", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "_version_": 1710337983841828864, "type": "Moving Image", "collection": "p16022coll554", "is_compound": false, "parent_id": "73", "thumb_url": "https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/1369852/thumbnail/entry_id/1_jpcwqm8u", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/7050088eb227386d3376e50ea851015ad7f0740d.png", "children": [ ] }