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Thanksgiving is here, and every year on this holiday, I think back to my childhood when I saw on television and in magazines the incredible
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Brian Hoang
- Feb 1, 2022
The Year of the Tiger Through Art
Most of the Asian art I saw in pop culture or art class growing up was Japanese and Chinese. At the time, I generalized it and just thought
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Elwing Suong Gonzalez
- Jan 19, 2022
My People
Growing up mixed-race in a Vietnamese refugee family in Los Angeles in the era of "Vietnam" = Vietnam War, the legacies of the war,...
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Brandon Nguyen
- Sep 14, 2021
Việt Kiều: foreigner in a familiar country
The word việt kiều means “Overseas Vietnamese” according to Google Translate, but the word carries so many layered connotations depending on
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Phoung-Cac Nguyễn
- Jul 27, 2021
Say My Name
I hadn’t fully grasped it until most recently, but my identity has always been amorphous. When I came of age in Southern California,
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Kwinnie Lê
- Jul 14, 2021
a father's passport
my father does not know me by my name / from that moment on / all was forgotten / I watch him burn his passport / headfirst into fire / male
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Jackie Reed
- Jan 12, 2021
A Rough Transition Into A New Year
Like many Americans last week, I watched thousands of rioters invade the Capitol building and shred us of our nation’s dignity. As an...
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Jenn Nguyen
- Nov 17, 2020
Lessons of Intergenerational Trauma
Anger helped raise me. As a child, I felt my dad was always angry. He has propelled into a yelling fit over dirty cups in the kitchen sink,
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Jackie Reed
- Oct 28, 2020
Wishful Thinking
The Vietnamese zodiac is a repeating 12-year cycle based on the lunar calendar. The Vietnamese zodiac resembles the Chinese zodiac, but...
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Wind Meets West
- Oct 20, 2020
A Future Outside My Parents' Imagination
It's December in New York City, it’s cold in the Uber coming home from Williamsburg at 5am. I drank too much again, cigarettes and alcohol..
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Tracey Nguyen Mang
- Oct 13, 2020
Happy Birthday to Us
Two years ago, on Oct 10, 2018 I published my first podcast episode 'Prelude', a ten minute soliloquy of what it was like growing up ...
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Tracey Nguyen Mang
- Sep 22, 2020
Thank You 2020 Ambassadors
As our 2020 Ambassador Program comes to a close for the year, we want to thank this amazing group. They joined our team at the height of the
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Meghan Coyle
- Sep 1, 2020
Immigrants (and their children), we get the job done
I’ve had as many jobs as most people twice my age. In fifth grade, I started walking my neighbor’s dog every day for $10 a week. At the...
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Cuong Quy Huynh
- Aug 25, 2020
From Refugee Camps of Malaysia
In September of 1979, my family and I left the refugee camps of Malaysia to travel to the airport...How lucky I felt to be leaving...
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jhoang0352
- Aug 18, 2020
Pride
I also think about the hard times endured, such as instances of racism and trying to find my place in a majority white organization.
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Valerie Nguyen
- Aug 11, 2020
What is in a Name?
I hated my last name “Nguyễn.” In grade school and even in college, my name was butchered and no one made the effort to ask me...
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Bella
- Jul 3, 2020
Independence and Identity during the Black Lives Matter Movement
Today, 244 years later, with the Fourth of July only a few days away tears are falling down my face as I type - I am sad. I am disappointed.
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Megan Do
- Jun 16, 2020
Living Authentically
One of my earliest memories is writing a love note to a girl in my Kindergarten class named Lynn. I don’t remember exactly what it said,...
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RichardLuong
- Jun 9, 2020
Vietnamese Americans Must Be (Better) Allies
his face looked like mine. It was a shame and an anger that was unlike the other types of pain and anger I felt before. I broke down
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