Hello guys, my name is Nathan Xayprasith and I am a freshman majoring in Digital Media Innovation. My previous major was biology, but I changed it because Digital Media caught my interest. In this blog, I want to share my heritage with other people and also learn more about my culture in the process. With this blog, I believe that I am able to achieve both of these expectations with a little help and promotion. What I hope to gain and explore from this blog is skills I can develop, and also to learn new things. I want to share my culture to other people, and also want to learn new things about my culture, so my target audience is anybody. From my family members, to my friends, and to people I do not know, hopefully my blog will be able to target anyone.
Heritage Flow
I am Laotian, and I grew up into Buddhism so it’s a part of my life. In this picture, it is my two younger brothers and I during my granddad’s funeral. We are dressed as Buddha monks to honor the death in our family. When a someone close dies in our family, the male members shave their heads/eyebrows, and do a mediation that invites us to become monks for a 12-hour period. I am the one on the right side and this was during my sixth-grade year. During the time, I really didn’t understand what me and my brothers were really doing because this was something new to us. Becoming a monk for my granddad was a new experience. This event opened my mind up for learning more things about my culture. In this blog, I will share dishes, customs, traditions, and even new things that I will learn about my culture.
Learning more about my culture
For me to learn more about my heritage, I am going to be doing interviews, traveling to different events, such as Laos New Year celebration in the DFW area, and helping my mom cook to see the ingredients for different dishes.
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