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Religion Dispatches
January 11, 2018
He sees how Vietnamese Americans create home shrines that blend the traditional—a single photo of an ancestor beside assorted fruits—with a touch of “Americanization,” such as adding significant ornaments or a photo montage that personalizes the shrine. Meanwhile, second generation KoreanÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 9, 2018
ICE has begun unprecedented raids targeting both Cambodian and Vietnamese Americans, many of whom entered the country as refugees. For years, Cambodia had refused to accept deported citizens from the U.S. That changed this year after the U.S. placed visa sanctions on Cambodian officials toÃÂ ...
Gloucester Daily Times
January 9, 2018
Estimates from the Bureau based on 2016 numbers indicate about 47,000 Vietnamese-Americans live in Massachusetts. In 1992 Tony Lam was elected to a city Council seat in Westminster, California, becoming the first Vietnamese-born American to hold public office in the United States, according to theÃÂ ...
Sentinel & Enterprise
January 8, 2018
Estimates from the Bureau based on 2016 numbers indicate about 47,000 Vietnamese-Americans live in Massachusetts. In 1992 Tony Lam was elected to a city Council seat in Westminster, California, becoming the first Vietnamese-born American to hold public office in the United States, according to theÃÂ ...
The International Examiner
January 3, 2018
I started Viets Who Give A Shiet (VWGAS) in January 2017 with the intention of getting Vietnamese Americans in Seattle to coordinate among each other in resistance to the new administration. But intention and outcome are frequently, and wonderfully, unpredictable. What became apparent very quicklyÃÂ ...
The Nation.
December 19, 2017
The arrests surprised the Southeast Asian community alongside reports of similar mass arrests of Vietnamese Americans. “Individuals were often convicted when they were teens or young adults,” said Katrina Dizon Mariategue, immigration-policy manager with the Southeast Asian Resource Action Center.
NextShark
December 6, 2017
That's at least according to a Quora thread that specifically asked why Hennessy VSOP (Very Superior Old Pale) is popular among Vietnamese Americans, particularly in Vietnamese communities in Orange County, California. The consensus: it has something to do with Vietnam being a former FrenchÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
November 29, 2017
While Vietnamese Americans live throughout Orange County, Nguyen explained that many young restaurant owners still come back to Little Saigon to establish their shops. Part of this is for practical reasons, he said — the rent is cheaper than other parts of the county, and many still have family ties in theÃÂ ...
HuffPost
November 9, 2017
Some of those detained are not eligible for deportation under a 1995 agreement between the U.S. and Vietnam. By Kimberly Yam. The Washington Post via Getty Images. 4.3k. Dozens of members of the Vietnamese community, including some who have lived in the U.S. for decades, face an uncertainÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
November 1, 2017
Some Fear That Vietnamese Americans Could Be at Greater Risk for Deportation. As Trump moves to sanction countries that don't accept deportees, analysts warn that U.S. residents of Vietnamese origin no longer have the same protections. Author: Massoud Hayoun; Publish date: Nov 1, 2017; Social count: 1148.
Los Angeles Times
October 19, 2017
Today, the divorce rate for Vietnamese Americans, while still below the national average, is getting closer. According to a study of U.S. Census data by University of Maryland sociologist Philip Cohen, there are about 16 divorces per 1,000 marriages among Vietnamese Americans. The national average isÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
October 5, 2017
“Yes, there is definitely discrimination for Vietnamese Americans,” said Le's mother, who thought police had targeted her child for the way he looked. Hoai Le thought some more and changed his mind. Race, he decided, was the only thing that made sense to him in a story that had so far made little.
New York Times
October 3, 2017
I've been surprised by the strongly negative reactions by some of my fellow Vietnamese-Americans to this film. After the first night, they took to social media and email chains: This is fake news! The producers are Communist sympathizers! It makes the South Vietnamese look bad! It's another patronizing filmÃÂ ...
NextShark
December 31, 1999
We can add Cypress College student Luan Nguyen to the list of Vietnamese Americans who have a big heart after he returned the lost possessions of an elderly woman he met in Garden Grove, California. In a Facebook post on Christmas Eve, Nguyen said he was headed to a Bank of America at theÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
October 20, 2017
Today, the divorce rate for Vietnamese Americans, while still below the national average, is getting closer. According to a study of U.S. Census ...
KUOW News and Information
October 18, 2017
We look at the origins of pho and how it has come to define who Vietnamese Americans are in their adopted country. Thanh speaks with two ...
Vox
October 17, 2017
These results raise the question: Why did Indian- and Chinese-American voters move to support Khanna while Vietnamese Americans ...
The Diplomat
October 11, 2017
My mother was a teenager when she made her perilous journey to America as a “boat person.” Undoubtedly hiding from me many of the ugly ...
Los Angeles Times
October 5, 2017
“Yes, there is definitely discrimination for Vietnamese Americans,” said Le's mother, who thought police had targeted her child for the way he ...
New York Times
October 3, 2017
I've been surprised by the strongly negative reactions by some of my fellow Vietnamese-Americans to this film. After the first night, they took to ...
89.3 KPCC
September 29, 2017
But although OC's Little Saigon is home to the largest population of Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Americans outside of Vietnam, developing the ...
Los Angeles Times
September 21, 2017
Tim Le said that growing up in Riverside, he didn't know many other Vietnamese Americans — but Viet Taste Buds gives him that opportunity ...
Current
September 20, 2017
It describes Vietnamese-Americans as a successful, entrepreneurial community whose members are more likely to become citizens than other ...
Christian Chronicle
September 25, 2017
The Texas city is home to the largest concentration of Vietnamese Americans outside of California. Vu, a retired engineer, said he is unaware ofÃÂ ...
Current
September 20, 2017
It describes Vietnamese-Americans as a successful, entrepreneurial community whose members are more likely to become citizens than otherÃÂ ...
NET Website
September 19, 2017
Despite their common heritage, Dau Nguyen says there is tension between older, more traditional adults and younger Vietnamese AmericansÃÂ ...
Houston Press
September 15, 2017
Like many other Vietnamese Americans of her generation, news reporter Lily Jang's family immigrated to the US at the end of the Vietnam War,ÃÂ ...
IndieWire
September 15, 2017
We're hoping Vietnamese Americans who are of your parents' generation or over, whose English isn't perfect, can watch the film.”.
Austin American-Statesman
September 11, 2017
Houston, an official resettlement site for refugees after the Vietnam War, is home to the largest concentration of Vietnamese Americans outsideÃÂ ...
NPR
September 9, 2017
With the Gulf shrimp industry in gradual decline, most Vietnamese-Americans sold their boats over the years. They opened nail salons, gotÃÂ ...
Sampan
September 8, 2017
Based in Dorchester, MA, a community with one of the largest concentrations of Vietnamese Americans on the East Coast, VietAID is the firstÃÂ ...
NOLA.com (blog)
September 8, 2017
The city of New Orleans will soon be celebrating its tricentennial. A new Vietnamese American women exhibit is among the events celebratingÃÂ ...
Mother Jones
September 3, 2017
Novelist Robert Stone once likened the Vietnam War to a piece of shrapnel “embedded in our definition of who we are.” Who better to extract that shrapnel thanÃÂ ...
Highbrow Magazine
August 27, 2017
Lynn Novick: I met 1.5 and second-generation Vietnamese Americans, people who came up to me and said they couldn't wait to watch theÃÂ ...
Yahoo News
August 26, 2017
If confirmed, Pham would be one of the highest-ranking Vietnamese-Americans ever to serve in the federal government. FP's Elias GrollÃÂ ...
New America Media
August 23, 2017
Lynn Novick: I met 1.5 and second generation Vietnamese Americans, people who came up to me and said they couldn't wait to watch theÃÂ ...
MinnPost
August 11, 2017
How did nail salons, and the fine art of giving pedicures and manicures, become one of the main industries of Vietnamese-Americans in theÃÂ ...
NextShark
August 10, 2017
Today, the nail salon industry is worth approximately $8 billion — dominated by Vietnamese-Americans, of course, with many of themÃÂ ...
Harvard Crimson
August 9, 2017
And while 70 percent of Indian Americans hold a bachelor's degree or higher, only 26 percent of Vietnamese Americans hold one.
Louisiana Weekly
August 8, 2017
Vietnamese Americans were the first to come back, and they could exist without grocery stores. “We'd always grown our own food and wereÃÂ ...
Voice of America
August 5, 2017
This exhibition will resonate and will bring forth questions and will open conversations about the identity of Vietnamese Americans,” said JavierÃÂ ...
Viet Nam News
July 29, 2017
“When I first created this channel I was targeting Vietnamese Americans,” she said. “I wanted to encourage everyone to learn the languageÃÂ ...
KCET
July 26, 2017
About 200,000 Vietnamese-Americans now live in Little Saigon, which was founded in 1978. Neon store signs in Vietnamese or AnglicizedÃÂ ...
Seattle Weekly
July 20, 2017
Vietnamese-Americans told Seattle Weekly earlier this week that that was in part due to a cultural reticence toward speaking out againstÃÂ ...
Seattle Weekly
July 19, 2017
She says she and other young Vietnamese-Americans have looked to Black Lives Matter and other groups as examples for communityÃÂ ...
Northwest Asian Weekly
July 13, 2017
Local Vietnamese Americans, many of whom own businesses in Little Saigon, said the decision to site the center on the edge of the city'sÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
July 11, 2017
A woman who uses a wheelchair says she was discriminated against at a Lee's Summit nail salon. But the Vietnamese-Americans who work atÃÂ ...
FiveThirtyEight
October 18, 2016
Like Cuban-Americans, the first Vietnamese-Americans who came to the U.S. in significant numbers were fleeing a communist government.
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
Tim Le said that growing up in Riverside, he didn't know many other Vietnamese Americans — but Viet Taste Buds gives him that opportunityÃÂ ...
WMFE
December 31, 1999
... Vietnam Florida, Anh Do to talk about how the next generation of Vietnamese Americans keeps in touch with its roots in the Sunshine State.
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