A Vietnamese Edition of Culture Cards? Help us make it.

Vietnamese diaspora culture has a very particular texture: the Tết celebrations that take over the entire house for days, the pho that your parents insist no restaurant has ever gotten right, the Sunday drives to the Asian grocery store that somehow become a social event involving running into seven relatives, the red envelopes that come with both money and commentary. A Vietnamese Edition of Culture Cards would be for the families who carried this culture across oceans — from Saigon to San Jose, from Hanoi to Houston, from the Mekong Delta to Melbourne — and rebuilt it in new soil without losing the flavor.

Vietnamese family dynamics have a specific humor: the love that is expressed almost entirely through acts of service and food, the parent who communicates deep pride through a very slight reduction in criticism, the pressure around academic and professional achievement that coexists with enormous collective warmth. The diaspora spans generations and experiences, from first-wave refugees to third-generation Vietnamese Americans, and a game that speaks to all of them — that earns a laugh of recognition from everyone at the Tết table — is something worth building. Sign up and help us get there.