Vietnamese American

Quiet American, based off the classic novel by Graham Greene and directed by Phillip Noyce. Based in Saigon, 1952, in the middle of the Vietnam war between the communist and the French. The film follows a long-time war journalist from London named Thomas Fowler and his complicated love life between a catholic woman who does not believe in divorce and the Vietnamese women named Phuong whom he has fallen in love with. Fowler meets an unlikely friend, Alden Pyle, an aid worker for the American…

Birds of Paradise Lost, which is a series of short stories capturing the experiences of the American immigrants from Vietnam. In these stories, versions of paradise are both lost and gained. The experience is solely that of the Vietnamese refugees who fled Vietnam for America and other places in 1975 during the fall of Saigon. Lam’s stories depict the experience of the refugees; the vivid pursuit of the American Dream, the struggle that leads to transformation, mediation, and forms new ways of…

with Chinese Americans. During World War II, Chinese Americans did not want to associate themselves with Japanese Americans. This was all done to avoid the sphere of racism that existed in the United States. During the 1960s, students from these Asian subgroups “coined the term ‘Asian American’” , which related their combined experiences of “racial oppression and economic exploitation.” As Asian Americans, they importantly carved out their unique American identities within an American culture…

Association. On the other hand, Jeremy Lin is an Asian Americans who has the common physique as a basketball player. Jeremy Lin grew in the American basketball system. In Jeremy Lin’s model minority problem, Maxwell Leung, the author, is talking about the racial discrimination which is derived from racial stereotype in the United States. Asian Americans usually seem “the model minority” to the others. Therefore, people tend to think Asian Americans have less or…

also illustrating how the great American hypocrisy affects this transition. A great example of this comes from two paragraphs discussing her father’s first job at a blood bank. The job is temporary, as he’s trying to get official certification to be a doctor in the United States, but he encounters difficulties. One woman is xenophobic to him, “[requesting] to see an “American” doctor” (Balcita 2006, 1) when he comes to her aid. While this is a prime example of American hypocrisy as I explained…

small parts of the larger, degrading legacy paved for Asian-Americans of the past and present in America. One of these Asian-Americans, Garrett Hongo, earns his place as socially-driven poet from his countless commentaries and criticisms through poetry. Hongo, a Japanese-American born in Hawaii in 1951, culminates his 1988 The River of Heaven with the poem “The Legend.” Concluding the book of poems, “The Legend” pays tribute to an Asian-American, Jay Kashiwamura, whose unexpected death from an…

The Quite American, to express many of the political and diplomatic viewpoints about the involvement of various countries in the affairs of the people of Indochina and Southeast Asia. Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s, The Quiet American (1958), distorts the two main characters, Thomas Fowler and Alden Pyle, away from the novel’s version so as to present a viewpoint consistent and pleasurable for the audience with the era in which the film was made. Mankiewicz also tries to keep the anti-American aspects…

choice we make toward that end lead to the very opposite of diversity” (63). Finding our new places are hard but finding the places where make us agreeable are harder because most people don’t want to live near multiracial human. For example: Vietnamese-Americans mainly lived in Orange County-California, and another place in the Mexico-United States…

in Sociology at UCR, focused her research on the second generation Asian American immigrants, and has analyzed in a more in depth sociological perspective of how child rearing plays a role in their daily lives. There are great differences on how Asian immigrants and Americans child rear. An American ideology has also been created on how “the modern family” needs to be. It is amusing to see and understand how Asian American immigrants and child rearing play an important role in how we address and…

pressing the sides of my bulb-shaped nose in front of the mirror for hours as if my efforts would amount to a button nose so many girls had on TV. I grew up very bitter, sorry to say. My mom once told me, “Sometimes, I can’t tell if you’re Vietnamese or American.” It was said in jest; she just didn’t understand why I didn’t like egg rolls, but it still struck a chord in me. As upset as I was, I couldn’t fault her for it because I had the same problem. I continue to have this problem. This…