Originasians
Empowering Identities
Our mission is to provide resources and tools for second-generation Overseas Vietnamese worldwide to create meaningful connections with their family, culture and community.
Early Access Benefits
- Get early access to new features before anyone else.
- Participate in exclusive testing and provide valuable feedback.
- Shape the product development with your insights and suggestions.
- Be part of the journey from day one and make a real impact.
Be part of our journey.
Features
Our products are designed to empower identities and foster deeper connections with your cultural and personal heritage.
All tools are interconnected and integrated on a single platform to provide a seamless experience.
These features are part of Originasian’s vision:
Dual Calendar
A calendar with essentials to integrate lunar events in your life. It automatically converts your saved personal and cultural lunar events in your gregorian calendar.
Never miss the next ngày giỗ (death day), Tết (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) or ngày mồng một and ngày rằm (new moon and full moon).
Family Tree
A family tree with options to save family members, add infos about them (birthdays, death days, infos and memories of them).
It automatically shows you the correct pronoun for the family members in your tree.
Culture Vault
Resources and knowledge on cultural events and traditions. You’ll find step-by-step blueprints and explanations, for example for weddings, funerals, altars, or Lunar New Year. You can individualize every step or create your own traditions.
Community Space
Get to know other members of your diaspora in your area and beyond! Share and create events, join local networks and themed groups (e.g. cooking, hobbies, …). Discover and support other overseas vietnamese owned businesses, products and services (list and map).
Heritage Link
Have your parents told you interesting stories that you either forgot or didn’t unterstand because of a language barrier?
Heritage Link is an AI powered tool, that translates audio records of your conversations with your parents into chronologically logical stories in your preferred language. It can also add contextual (historical) information.
Which features are you most excited about? What are your needs and wishes? How can we make Originasians even better?
We’ve been looking for you!
Feel free to reach out, if you want to collaborate with us, or simply have a chat. We are especially looking for:
- Cultural experts to create curated content for our Culture Vault.
- Tech experts with experience in UI/UX, relational data bases and app development to make this idea become reality.
- People with ideas, contacts and networks who can help us get funding and/or a bigger audience.
Want to get involved?
Hi, I'm Vân!
I identify myself as a second-generation Overseas Vietnamese. I was born and raised in Germany as the youngest of three sisters.
For the longest time, I struggled to find my place in this world, often feeling misplaced in both Germany and Vietnam.
Since then, I graduated in Cultural Studies, Business Psychology and Intercultural Human Resources Development, always looking for ways to embrace the complexity of cultures and identities in this world.
With Originasians, I am creating my own path to empower myself and others to build our own individual, culturally rich and diverse places in this world.