Diaspora Analysis in Dial A for Aunties novel by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Dial A for Auntiesis an English comedy novel which narrates a story about Chinese-Indonesians characters living in America. This novel is rich with characteristics of Chinese-Indonesian’s culture. This research discussed about how the five main characters’ identity influence the pattern of cultural heritage, especially onfamily values aspect and intercultural language communication aspect, also discussed the diaspora form in the five main characters according to Clifford’s theory, and methods of inheriting culture according to Cavalli-Sforza’s theory. The result is, even though they lived in America for quite some time, they can’t be separated with their identities and that their identities played a big role in their what they educate their descendants.