‘Banana’, Vietnamese or Czech?

What is it about?

The members of the second generation in Vietnamese diaspora in the Czech Republic is a very interesting phenomenon. Growing up in diasporic context, but internalizing very different socio-cultural values from their parents, the children are subjected to a double otherness, from their Czech peers and from the first generation migrants in the diaspora. _x000D_ As a result, they undergo a complicated, at least 4 stage long, identity formation that, in some cases, develop into an exclusive hybrid identity situated in between the Czech and Vietnamese diaspora socio-cultural spaces. The article analyzes the identity formation and self of those people to show that those people develop at least three different types of hybrid identity: 1) positive syncretic hybrid identity; 2) selective hybrid identity; 3) and an exclusive hybrid identity.

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