Kayle Cole

Chinese and Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebrations

By: Kayle Cole, SFU Student, and Jessica Liu, SFU Student The spiritualism of Vietnamese celebrations — Kayle Cole  My Lunar New Year celebrations start when my mother calls her Vietnamese fortune teller to ask questions about everybody in the family. She gives the psychic our birthdays and time of birth. I can only guess that the fortune teller has a little book on the other side of the phone that categorizes the star signs and success level each person has in the new year. My mother always tells me, “If a psychic predicts your baby’s gender, it’s a 50/50 chance,”…

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