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He read the army literature about the war which stated that because of SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) it was America’s duty to go help the South Vietnamese people. They felt they were bound by their obligation to stop the spread of Communism to Southeast Asia. This gave my father a sense of duty and the belief that he was doing what his country needed him to do. His experiences taught him to never…

aimed to dispersed and resettle Vietnamese refugees across the states, in hope to avoid financially burdening local social services, prevent the creation of ethnic ghettos, and as a way to force the Vietnamese to quickly assimilate. Basically, it was the deliberate policy of the government to disperse the Vietnamese refugees with the intent to impede the formation of Vietnamese communities. However, contrary to this policy and for survival purposes, the Vietnamese regrouped themselves into…

Andrew Lam’s book, Perfume Dreams: Reflection on the Vietnamese Diaspora, is a collection of personal essays that documents Lam’s quest and struggle in finding the right identity as a Vietnamese American. At the age of 11, Lam fled with his family to America, during the ending years of the Vietnam War, as war refugees. This sudden exposure to a new environment, tore Lam’s past perception of who he was , created the identity dilemma that Lam struggled through his lifetime. Throughout the book,…

inclination to remember things the way he would like them to have been rather than the way they were” (xxi). Caputo stays true to the story throughout the book. He could have very easily not mentioned the parts of the war when Americans mistreated the Vietnamese. He did not do this because he knows that both the good and the bad part of the war…

After 39 years since the U.S officially pulled out of Vietnam, most of the Vietnamese still talked about the United States as the dreamland of freedom and opportunities. ¬Not to mention how much I had been wishing to be in this dreamland. Surely, when I had been waiting long enough, a new chapter of my life was coming. It was 2014 when I was unbelievably at the U.S Embassy of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam to participate the applicant interview to settle my new life in the United States. On the night…

heard that they did not know much about the Vietnam War because it was not that focused upon during history classes. Your name came up in the discussion and I decided that it was time to reach out to you because I believe that my story, and other Vietnamese women’s stories, can help your students and others truly understand what the war was to us. My story…

Vietnamese Community’s Approaching the Chinese Influence on and Chinese Elements Within Vietnamese Culture: Customs, Traditions, Language and Contemporary Media The conflict between China-Vietnam regarding the 2016 territorial dispute appears a new development to the rest of the world. In reality, this hostility is deep rooted, and significantly more vibrant and imminent from Vietnam side, almost making the conflict one sided. Overpowered and overshadowed by China, the smaller nation puts more…

allow me to feel closer to my Vietnamese American and Asian American identity. VSA has a sense of inclusivity and openness that will let me be able to identity as a Vietnamese and love Vietnamese culture without adhering to self imposed cultural expectations. I am able to connect with people not only through Vietnamese culture, but also underlying similarities. I would like to be immersed in the community to have that strong relationship with my identity. As a Vietnamese American, I also want to…

the Vietnamese population alone consists of 1,548,449 individuals. They are the fourth largest among the Asian population; an increase of 37.9% compared with the total Asian population growth at 43.2%. Although over half of the Vietnamese live in the west region of the United States; between 2000 and 2010, the South had experienced the largest percentage growth in Vietnamese population, by 34.1% (2010 U.S. Census). As the fifth most populous county in Florida, Orange County has a Vietnamese…

extreme the disconnect between American’s perception of what was happening in Vietnam and the lived experiences of the Vietnamese people was. The American public perceived the conflict as a war against communism that must be fought by the U.S, as we are the only ones capable of winning the fight, without every taking into account the horrors they were inflicting on innocent Vietnamese people. From a young age many Americans were brought up to unflinchingly oppose and despise communism…