{"id":3,"date":"2005-01-16T10:33:49","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/01\/16\/vietnam-through-a-vietnamese-american-"},"modified":"2005-01-16T10:33:49","modified_gmt":"2005-01-16T15:33:49","slug":"vietnam-through-a-vietnamese-american-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/01\/16\/vietnam-through-a-vietnamese-american-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam through a Vietnamese-American eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a467'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n I always find it interesting to hear the myriad of voices of the slice of<br \/>\n Asian-Americans that are known as Vietnamese-Americans.  I have many<br \/>\n mixed thoughts on this.  I think it would be beneficial to me to sit<br \/>\n down and try to verbalize these many thoughts in a coherent fashion.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n However, someone else has done a good job of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/asia\/2003\/journey\/vietnam.html\">verbalizing hers.<\/a><br \/>\n It&#8217;s a very interesting insight into perhaps many other Asian-american&#8217;s<br \/>\n thoughts.  I can understand why many Asian-americans roll their eyes<br \/>\n when strangers bring up the topic of their country of origin as a<br \/>\n conversation topic.  In fact, I bet if you look at many expats in<br \/>\n Asia they got bombarded with the same questions from strangers and get<br \/>\n REALLY tired of it.  What goes around comes around, one would say?\n <\/p>\n<p>\n However, for Vietnamese people who do not claim Vietnam as their home<br \/>\n country because they are Americans, French, or Canadians, etc.<br \/>\n the Vietnam War is an invisible mark they must bear when they confront<br \/>\n any stranger.   It&#8217;s an invisible topic that always lurks in the background.<br \/>\n However, many of these folk are Americans, French,<br \/>\n Canadians or whatever  just as much as anyone else that makes their home<br \/>\n in those respective countries.  So, it&#8217;d be nice to try to get to know these<br \/>\n people first as a PERSON rather than as the cultural representative to<br \/>\n an event in history.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/asia\/2003\/journey\/vietnam.html\">Read it yourself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always find it interesting to hear the myriad of voices of the slice of Asian-Americans that are known as Vietnamese-Americans. I have many mixed thoughts on this. I think it would be beneficial to me to sit down and try to verbalize these many thoughts in a coherent fashion. However, someone else has done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}