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Ho Chi Minh City – When Nguyen Phuoc Loc first started dabbling in Chicano culture eight years ago, it was simply because he liked the way that the loose clothing offset his large head.
Today, he considers himself Chicano through and through. The 30-year-old Vietnamese barber has never been to the United States. Yet he has filled his life and work with tributes to Mexican American identity and culture.
The back of the barbershop he manages features a mural of the Virgen de Guadalupe, a cactus plant and a Mexican flag. Sneakers hang by their laces from barbed wire, dangling above two motorbikes.
Vietnamese barber Nguyen Phuoc Loc’s head is covered with tattoos. The left side is inked with the Spanish word for family – family.
Even his shaved head is covered in the Gothic black letters long popular in Chicano culture that spell out: Family, Loyalty, L.A. The ink on his crown – a large number 6 – signifies his status as the sixth member of a small but increasingly visible community: a local band of barbers and tattoo artists who call themselves Viet Chicanos.
“In the beginning, I was just copying the older guys, their style and all,” said Loc, 30. “But over time, I started to feel that it really fit who I am. It happened gradually,like it seeped into me.”
Fashion aside, the culture has given Loc a sense of belonging, and motivation to work harder at his craft. He began watching movies steeped in Chicano culture, such as “American Me” and “Blood In Blood Out,” while using his limited English and translation apps to read about the movement online. He also started learning Spanish on Duolingo, but said that the language has been more arduous to pick up.
“If someone comes in from L.A., I’ll ask them everything I can about Chicano culture,” he said.”It’s like they’re tuned in to the exact frequency I’ve been on.”
Once a derogatory name for Mexican Americans, the term “Chicano” was reclaimed as a political identity during the 1960s, born out of their fight for civil rights in the American Southwest.
Since then, symbols of Chicano identity, such as oversized streetwear, elaborate tattoos and lowrider cars, have permeated mainstream culture. Subcultures influenced by Chicano imagery have cropped up in other parts of Asia, such as Thailand, the Philippines and most notably Japan, where a local love of lowriders emerged as early as the 1990s.
