The Struggle Of Vietnamese Immigrants In The Play '

Trieu Tran represents a very extensive group of refugees that left Southeast Asia during and after the brutal altercation between Vietnam and America that drastically changed the lives of millions of people. Tran is just one of the many affected by the bloody, convoluted conflict within Vietnam that led to foreign intervention. These people’s lives were completely transformed as they were forced to leave their home to go live in a foreign land with people they had absolutely nothing in common with. Being refugees, these people were required to leave; this was not a choice that they could make freely. Tran faces an immense struggle as he attempts to come to terms with his identity as he transitions to life in North America. In the play portraying …show more content…
The Vietnamese immigrants were a constant reminder to the American people of a war that should have never been fought. Public opinion in Vietnam is starting to change as the newer generation of Vietnamese are starting to realize that the war was not necessary a noble endeavor. (B) The Vietnamese people themselves are starting to fully comprehend how awful the war truly was. The sight of these refugees reminded them of the humiliating defeat by a country a fraction of the size of the United States; in contrast to the Vietnamese, it did not take Americans long to realize how the war was not noble in any way. This could possibly provide a reasoning for those lack of acceptance. This further reinforces the analogy used in Tran’s play. How could America be a true melting pot when an entire group of thousands of people were being excluded and looked down upon by the American people? The Vietnamese people did not choose to leave their home; the country of Vietnam attempts to view the war as one of unification and liberation. (B) However, many Vietnamese people view the war as one of needless brutality. These refugees were pushed out of their home to a place where they were not fully accepted by many …show more content…
(C) The sight of the Vietnamese on American soil made it impossible to forget the war that shook the entire nation. However, the refugee’s struggle was virtually ignored by the general public as they tried to just forget and recover. The American public did not, or chose not to, realize that these refugees were in much more need of a recovery. They faced atrocities that were far worse than what the American public had faced. To be a true melting pot, these people would need to be fully accepted and assimilated into the American identity and culture. As seen through Tran’s play, this was simply not the case. Trieu Tran’s analogy still holds true to this day as the melting pot has yet to