“A Man of Two Faces”: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen on New Memoir, U.S. Imperialism, Vietnam & More
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- We are joined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen to discuss his new book, A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial. Last week the 92NY, a major cultural institution in New York City, canceled an event with Nguyen after he joined 750+ writers in signing an open letter calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. His memoir explores his family's personal history as refugees from Vietnam dealing with the impacts of U.S. imperialism. "Civilian stories are war stories, too," says Nguyen. He says the U.S.'s greatest acts of anti-Asian violence occur internationally and continue today. "I see total continuity between what the United States has done in the Philippines, in Korea, in Japan, in Laos, in Cambodia, in Vietnam and now with Palestine."
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Wow!! What an articulate, intelligent man!!
Well educated but so thoughtful and insightful.
Thank you for featuring him today…..🙏🏽
Thimply amathing!
Apparently not thoughtful enough when he redacted Trump and not Biden who voted twice against US aids for South Vietnam and its refugees after the fall of Saigon. Despite the fact that the vast majority of racism and attacks against Asians in US weren't from white Americans but that's what he ascribed to and alludingly described in his interview. It seems dude is just another ungrateful liberal detached from reality, unfortunately.
Perfect! 🙌🏆🥇🎯. Can't wait for the miniseries and I have his books on my queue. Wonderful to see writers standing up for Palestine and against the Western World and Israel.
Yeaaa The Age Of Miserable Books or say books based on Misery. Sell Sell American Turds~
Growing up as an Asian refugee, I am so so very grateful for what Viet is expressing here. It's a rare thing for people like us to be seen and this conversation makes us visible and speaks honestly about our experiences. I look forward to your books, and thank you to DN.
I can't image all the trauma this man has survived, including the vicarious trauma of his parents. I love that he has been able to sublimate this pain into activism to create a more just society.
@DeleteGazaASAPwoah don't cut yourself on that edge bruh
Moving story almost scientific narrative and analysis. Thank you for sharing this
Thank you for speaking out Viet. You are speaking for those who suffered injustice which otherwise could not see the light of day. Many grateful thanks to you.
This author is a very intelligent man! I love to read and i look forward to reading his books!
The redaction of the name is appropriate for a person who loves seeing his own name and profiting from its commodification and propagation. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Sympathizer,” “The Committed,” and “The Refugees” are all worth reading, as I’m sure this one is too.
Except for the fact that without GOP POTUS like Trump, dude and his family along with many other Vietnamese war refugees would have had zero chance to immigrate to USA at the end of the Vietnam War, as Biden literally voted twice against US aids for South Vietnam and its refugees after the fall of Saigon in 1975. It seems dude is just another ungrateful liberal detached from reality, unfortunately.
Thank you for this interview. I have a new author to add to my list.! Love this interview and how he provides a nuanced perspective of the Asian immigrant story and is still critical of the US, his receiving country. I love how he characterizes his identity and his experiences on language, assimilation, while still being able to realize what he's lost through assimilation.
So eloquent !!!!
So Very TRUE Nguyen...🙏🙏🙏🙏💜😔😔
Extraordinary, thoughtful, honest, sincere. Excellent work!!!!!
Work for ☮️ Peace!
Will be getting his book asap! Ty!
Imagine all of the traumatised people we are currently creating through poverty, war and violence. So much suffering across the globe. So many children who will need healing.
Interesting interview. As a Vietnamese refugee coming to America at 14 growing up in the foster care system and joined the Navy deploying to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Djibouti, I have a much different take on America. I am concerned about America drifting into communism with woke culture being imposed in all facets of society. As an educator in CA, I am fighting an uphill battle to restore America back to its founding ideals of God, family, and country. I came to America when President Ronald Reagan took office. I like his vision of America being a shining light on the hill and a beacon of hope for the world.
i appreciate being able to learn about this man and his history...i will definitely check out the miniseries
The author is absolutely right, "war kills more innocent than the soldiers".
Living in NYC, I always felt 92ndY was a funnel for AIPAC. Thank You, Amy - for justifying my gut feelings.
AIPAC has infected the entire Congress, White House, state and local governments, institutions of higher learning, and the MSM. Try to expose its machinations for apartheid and genocide, and be labelled "anti-Semitic"!
Awesome take on the western problem !
I’m so impressed with his ability to state the truth as an immigrant. So many times in need of assimilating they refuse to state the truth. It leaves black Americans on an island with natives. ✊🏿
And all Joe Biden can do is more Domino Theory continuous economy wars.
I can't wait to get hold your book (The man of two face)
My grandfather, my father, and myself were born in San Jose, CA. According to my father, downtown San Jose was very dangerous back in the 70s and 80s with high rates of criminal activities. Vietnamese refugees eventually bought or leased commercial properties in the area to open their family-run stores, which changed the landscape of many parts of San Jose for the better. Nguyen's parents were two of those people.
It’s stupid to cancel their events over calling for a cease fire! How can you say we are part of the free world America?!
America is the A in NATO (NAZI American Terrorist Organization)
Fantastic interview with a truly fascinating guest - thank you for this introduction to the compelling Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Places that canceled these events should be boycotted. Release the names.
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I admire his way of trying to tell the World of the United States and the truth and other side of history in Viet Nam. Just like the Whiteman killing most of my heritage, American Indians. At the end is a statement by the Author, History is a written agreement of the lies told by the Winner.
Can’t wait to cop his book, this was a great interview!
زنده پاینده باشی ❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉
nice Interview
Thanks for this.
"If Israel isn't the problem, there is no solution!"
Shout out to W.E.B. DuBois and his concept "double-consciousness"!
good shit guys
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Nguyen doesn’t forget why he ended up in America and the plights of the Palestinians going through despite the risk to his career for being outspoken in the situation.
Read the Sympathizer, interesting novel. We shouln't forget, though, that Vietnam has a long history of being colonized, i.e. by China, Japan, France, and finally the US. One of the best movies, imho, is Section 319, a film about a mixed platoon of French and Asian soldiers making their way to Cambodia and their experience with the local population, victims to both sides, the French as well as the Viet Minh. The lesson learnt? Like later in Afghanistan, the Americans simply took over from the Russians, or in the case of Vietnam, the French whose inept generals thought it would be child's play to conquer those farmer soldiers.
Viet thanh is 2 faces !!
"You that never done Nothing
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your Little toy"
Bob Dylan
"We have to be realistic enough
To believe in Miracles"
Gideon Levy
Love him
Something is very wrong and it’s ashamed that not too many people have not the vision! But it’s one group of people on earth that we ( the people) are not allowed to speak on !
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DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE JUST ANOTHER BUNCH OF CARROTS FOR IGNORANTS LIKE ME!
LIFE'S A STAGE AND AS LONG AS THERE ARE PUPPETEERS, THE PUPPETS CONTINUE THE PLAY ON STAGE AND AUDIENCE PAYS THE PRICE!
My Late Father Survived ww2 Germany under HITLER'S Military...Most of his Family Members Survived along with his Mom and Dad...
Netanyahu's WAR
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s full name is pronounced Vee-et Tahn N’win!
This is fantastic. I so love the idea of Downey playing all the white characters. Fantastic and so good that Downey understands how funny AND important this is.
Anyone pushing people to choose a side... is evil.
Funny and smart
I wished his family immigrated to the Australia. It would have been much less negative and traumatising… it’s not perfect here, but it would have been so much better.
Rebranding ‘the 92nd street y’ is such a mistake. “Nine two N Y” is not catchy and doesn’t ring a bell
Censorship is the last weapon of the criminal and desperate State. It is always the harbinger of a shameful defeat.
Defeat by who? ‘We the people’ have been voting against our own interests for 40+ years, and it’s only getting worse . . .
@@ibbledibble The future is never a repetition of what happened in the past. The problems that the US is creating and fueling abroad have great potential to cause immense tragedies that will inevitably badly affect the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans.
@@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 that’s always been true, already happened
@@ibbledibble Wait and see... Nothing will be the same as before.
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Robert Downey playing all the white male characters is hilarious
Redacting trumps name. Great idea.
Well said. Retribution will fall upon US.
Absolute agreement on redacting ‘ that name’ as the more it’s mentioned especially in press the more he’s exalted while he should be avoided because of his shit stirring
I've always thought that myself, especially since his presidency was filled with negativity on a global scale.
Just a phony sensationalist gangster.
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Those who love war, have absolutely no love for Yahweh.
They do have love for White Jesus / White Messiah 😮
@@gotmilk91not true Jesus... just the money and status it brings...😢😢😢
@georgethalman1639 - well it IS TRUE that the installation of the "White Messiah" Israel brings the Ashkenaz1 regime 4-5 billion $$$ yearly!
English is a language of masters. 😅😂😂... English was actually the language of most vommon folks of England. Basically the plebs of England. The masters used to speak French or Latin😂😂 but later adopted English language to show more commonality with the English folks. But I understand your point, becoming proficient in English made u distant from ur native language speakers and its stories.. and when u realise this it hits you painfully. But donot let your pain turn into hate for English dear. Btw English is not my first language but i am proficient is both my native language, English and one more . I knew three languages, read, write and speak. It is good to be Multi lingual.
There are Viet Kieu do not feel like Mr. Nguyen do, those of us from the south remember the genocidal intentions of the Viet Cong.
He tells a story based on his personal experience. The Viet Cong was terrible, but the South Vietnamese government was no angel as it was incompetent and very corrupted.
This professor is ungrateful for the opportunities that America has given him. I’m a boat person from Vietnam. I came to the U.S. as a refugee when I was a small child. My parents and grandparents lived through war, but they moved on with life. I have an extensive community of Vietnamese refugees that grew up in America, and all are successful. None of us experienced “passed on” trauma. Life is what you make of it. If you embrace the victim mentality taught by the public schools and media, you will see the negative side of everything. This guy threw a bunch of victim word salad out there to fit in. Blame colonial and imperialism for everything, but regular Vietnamese ppl had better lives when the French and Americans were there. It all went to the dumps when the Communists took over the country.
Why did you end up in America in the first place? Did the US abandon South Vietnam? Think deeper.
True dat! Dude seems like an ungrateful immoral pr*ck, even to the extent of spontaneously badmouthing his own savior for personal gains. Without GOP POTUS (like Trump), dude and his family along with hundreds of thousands other Vietnamese war refugees would have had zero chance to immigrate to USA at the end of the Vietnam War, as Dems led by Biden literally voted twice against US aids for South Vietnam and its refugees after the fall of Saigon in 1975. Also, despite the fact that the vast majority of racism and attacks against Asians in US weren't from white Americans yet that's the woke concept this bootlicker ascribed to and alludingly described in his interview, all for personal gains just to follow the direction which the wind blows. Listening to his victimhood laced with American "colonialism", "racism" word salad, one would have thought dude was a Vietnamese Commie propaganda officer instead of a refugee fleeing Communism. His motive as a calculated opportunist was clear though. It seems dude is just another selfish, ungrateful liberal detached from reality, unfortunately.
These guy does not truly understand the refugees experience. It’s a shame. I’m a Vietnamese refugee and spent 3 years in Malaysia. His parents escaped Vietnam in search of freedom and democracy so he can have an opportunity to now becoming an author. And now he’s become a full blown liberal. The irony of life.
@@dant8891the U.S. absolutely a abandoned the south. They did not want to win the war they only wanted to negotiate with the communist.
You, too, can write a book about your experience.
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