This is a video project for my Class of Documentary Photography

The topic t is the difference among generations of Vietnamese community in Prague, Czech Republic (located specifically in Sapa Shopping Centre at the suburb of Prague)

Today, there are an estimated more than 80,000 Vietnamese in the Czech Republic, the second¬ largest foreign community after Ukrainians.
The first generation of Vietnamese here are mostly labor workers, mostly uneducated, thus easily get involved in crime. In 2009, NY Times published an article saying that Czech citizens are worrying about Vietnamese minority because the number is growing so fast and Vietnamese culture influence on theirs. For example, according to the National Anti¬Drug Center, the police last year uncovered 79 large-scale marijuana grow¬shops, 70 of which were run by Vietnamese.

However, the next generation of Vietnamese community in the Czech Republic is changing for the better. Many own thriving corner shops, speak Czech and send their children to Czech schools, where they are routinely at the top of their classes.
What I want to focus is the difference generations of Vietnamese community. This difference also entails many issues, such as whether to assimilate or to promote traditional culture, which creates numerous conflicts within families. For instance, the parents can only speak Vietnamese, still practice Vietnamese traditional routines, and persist on Eastern ways of thinking; while their children speak little Vietnamese, but mostly Czech. They come from two generations of Vietnamese, but like people from two different countries.

I would like to visualize it through a daily routine of the children, and the parents - seperately. Then I would like to photograph them when they have breakfast/dinner together, or going on a field trip, or watch TV.

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