I love his answer. It is so true. If you’re still connected with the culture and perhaps you’re a Vietnamese isn’t pefe t, but there is that emotional connection, then you are Vietnamese.
Great response. Having escaped VN on a boat in 1981 at the age of 14 and being a minor without parents, I was placed in an American foster family. I had a lot of drive to succeed when I came America. In order to do that, I had to assimilate quickly into the mainstream culture. Interesting to listen to Viet's perspective about his upbringing in America. Although I now speak fluently in Vietnamese, I have been told at times that I come across too Americanized- banana yellow on the outside and white inside.
I love his answer. It is so true. If you’re still connected with the culture and perhaps you’re a Vietnamese isn’t pefe t, but there is that emotional connection, then you are Vietnamese.
Such a touching vietnamese root feeling example from a teacher and writer for the coming generations!
Great response. Having escaped VN on a boat in 1981 at the age of 14 and being a minor without parents, I was placed in an American foster family. I had a lot of drive to succeed when I came America. In order to do that, I had to assimilate quickly into the mainstream culture. Interesting to listen to Viet's perspective about his upbringing in America. Although I now speak fluently in Vietnamese, I have been told at times that I come across too Americanized- banana yellow on the outside and white inside.
At 14 escaped VN and you doubt your vietnamese.
'Have you eaten rice(meal)' is a common greeting word in Korea, too😂 since we have history of war and all the starvation..
This guy is as vietnamese as Obama is Kenyan 🤣