Viet Thanh Nguyen Still Remembers His Traumatic Refugee Experience
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2017
- The Refugees' Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen shares memories of being a refugee from South Vietnam.
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So weird to see my teacher on late night tv. SO COOL!!
6 years late to this, but same here. He opened my eyes to a lot of great Asian American literature.
woohooo a Vietnamese person on the show!
"Newenn" LOL
They had another [Ocean Vuong] but for some reason their interview has been taken down.
A racist Vietnamese person.
@@liamquane4701 th-cam.com/video/cQl_qbWwCwU/w-d-xo.html
Love how light hearted he is in this video as compared to the serious subject matter of the book. However, I have to say that there are many, many well-written funny moments in the book. The Pulitzer was well deserved.
He is so good looking, humorous and articulate.❤
I am Vietnamese and soon to live in the US. Always want to know more about the war that makes some of my relatives go to America. Love your book a lot, it does help much.
I have many Vietnamese friends and they are some of the best people I know. I hope you find a good home in the US. Most Americans try to forget the war, the horrible loss of life for many is a painful memory. We must live for the future and try to live in peace and harmony. Those that came before us would want that after the terrible things they witnessed. God bless and best wishes to you.
Loved his novel! The Pulitzer was very well-deserved, imo.
Love Viet Thanh Nguyen's humor in this video! A very personable guy. Just met him briefly last weekend at the 2018 Bay Area Book Festival!
He makes me proud to be Vietnamese even though I’m french
There is a distinction between VN ...before and after '75.
Lmaooo
i like his outfit! he comes across as a charming and laid back dude.
gonna pick up this book later. my new year resolution is to read at least 1 book a month, so this can be one of them!
Marcus Chan weirdly, that's my resolution too
Marcus Chan weirdly, that's my dad's resolution too
Cmon Viet! Im in LA & Im reading ... The Sympathizer. Great book- youre good. You have the best words...
This book was absolutely amazing; I live in Vietnam and most people in the country are this well dressed and handsome. Its a really ridiculously good-looking country.
Esp the women...gorgeous!
He looks better then Steve Harvey.
Hell yeah!
Anyone looks better than Steve Harvey.
I’m so proud of my cousin. 😂
You’re so adorable
He is racist.
@@fkutube933 how?
♥️♥️♥️
Just finished his book The Refugees. He’s so charming and articulate
The Sympathizer is a fantastic read!
That's a really nice suit
This is precious!
im excited af to see a viet on tv!! never really happens anymore
Can’t wait to see the movie!
this man is attractive....and damn his wife dresses him well lol. i just noticed the ring.
Or it could be a husband who dresses him well. His outfit reminds of me of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
... a few minutes later ...
It bugged me too much to leave just the initial comment. A search turns up that he has a wife but was also given some fashion advice by a fan.
www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/26/viet-thanh-nguyen-winning-the-pulitzer-changed-the-value-of-my-book-and-myself (mentions his wife)
Comment about dressing for the Late Show - facebook.com/vietnguyenauthor/photos/a.342855595920849.1073741828.338493239690418/638264039713335/?type=3&comment_id=638283933044679&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R0%22%7D
Or he could dress well by himself.
he dresses well by himself. he's a professor on my dissertation committee, and he's fashionable at all times.
That makes me feel even more inadequate. _(._.)_ (⌒▽⌒）
Best wishes on your dissertation and career!
No... that's just how Vietnamese guys dress. We're into fashion.
Seth. Thank you and your TV Family for your wonderful show always good for a laugh and like this show inspiration enlightening or your David Saderres funny too I’m a big Fan thanks again
He's awesome!!
Very proud
HE WENT TO BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY IN SAN JOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That dude has the most ethno-stereotypical name in the history of the world
(Looks at my ID card...) Oh....
Well played, Viet. Well played.
Why?
Also, you probably don't know this, but his name should actually be Việt, with the hat on the 'e' and the little dot at the bottom.
I don't think you got the joke ;)
good one.
Yeah, I'm not smart enough to get it :). Mind explaining it?
(Look at his youtube name, I'm imagining it's based in reality)
lol great interview. He’s hilarious. I shall read the book
This dude went to my high school
A brother nguyen from another mother....and father...
His name almost sounds like Vietnam Wins
theepicurbanproject Nguyen Thanh Viet is his proper Vietnamese name.
Actually thanh means green in vietnamese not win as thắng.
It does, Bradaya! @@thaoo8217 Nguyen sounds like Win when you pronounce it the in Western way haha.
If you just pronounce his first and last name in english It would sounds like "Viet New Win"
i kinda thought it was a prank thumbnail when seeing Thanh Viet on the show lol
We need more Vietnamese (asians for that matter) role models.
i bought a few, i brought them home 😂
I'm from Vietnam 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳, I know he speaks English very good
Sure he does. He escaped from the communists since he was a toddler
His body language. LOL.
Reading his book now. It's fine. It's kind of pretentiously written but I appreciate his reflections on the Asian experience in America.
can’t be compared to your tone though
Oh ! Oh ! I look alike a little bit of Viet Thanh NGUYEN in this video ONLY !
same age as van dark holme
Việt Nam
Viêt Nam Công Hòa
"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures" by Anne Fadiman.
From an Amazon review:
"The story itself is based on a true story that has apparently had a strong impact on the medical world."
It‘s PULL-itzer, Seth, not PYOOL-itzer!
I know u wow how are u,,
This guy makes me ashamed for not being more well-dressed and more articulate.
phone card minutes count em the winner
I’m liking this guy thank goodness this guy is on the right side of Politic. A lot of Vietnamese peoples like trump WHY?
They like Trump because of bitterness towards the past. Trump to them is anti-communism and these Vietnamese overseas, especially those older ones that were once part of South Vietnam's government (VNCH), they hate communism more than anything else.
Yes, it's mostly older Vietnamese that like Trump and the GOP. (Kinda like Cuban American in FL) They hate the Communist so bad that they are blinded by everything that Trump or the GOP stand for. The irony is that they escaped Communism and authoritarian and yet worship the very thing that they claim to loathe! But the younger generation of VN are more Democratic leaning so I’m hopeful.
@@ThinhTran-wy6vc The present is much worse than the past unfortunately. Nobody in VNCH needed to seek asylum in foreign countries, none had to get out by boat or to hide in trucks to cross the borders,...
BTW who are these guys?
umm, that's the whole point of watching / reading new things. You learn something.
*WHO AM I?!*
What's the meaning of life?
This guy talks like Matt Taibbi even though he's asian.
Hâu duê Viêt Nam Công Hòa on the show 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
There was a one in three billion chance that he would kill somebody.
FIRST BITCHES !
Muhammad Hussnain Haider Who cares...
"Traumatic Refugee Experience" oh god give it a break! he and his family got out in 75 which is a lot better than most and he was young enough to not remember anything bad. Most vn refugees had to face pirates, weather, floating around the sea for days without food/water, actually living in refugee camps (in thailand, phillipines, indonesia, hk, malaysia) and fighting for food and water. he had it made and his family got a head start before other vn refugees. And than there were minors without parents in the camps that had to fight for themselves. I was there in songkhla, sieu kieu, phanat nikhom refugee camps as a minor so i can say these things.
It's not a competition. Being a refugee does have its own set of traumatic experiences, whether you leave by boat or plane, or at a young age or older.... Just leaving your own home country to seek refuge and resettle into another country is already traumatic.
If you listened to a more detailed interview with Viet Thanh, he never exaggerated his experience as a refugee. I think the title of this episode is misleading. Though, traumatic experience is different from each individual, for a 4 year old child would be removed from your parents and placed into a stranger's home. You have to consider that he did not speak any English at that time.
@@damiann4734he’s here to sale his book n on his Twitter it says “refugee”…that’s milking it ok. no vietnamese walking around w the word refugee on their linkedin, fb, twitter account….he does it to make it looks like he experienced it
Loved the book, talented writer with that said, I can't tell if he's being cheeky/funny....but he comes across as kinda cocky, arrogant, and judgy. L.A. ppl don't read? Calling yourself a writer with such close-minded about ppl
Sorry, this interview is kind of lame. It is impressive Meyers actually read the book, or claimed to. Nguyen's joke about Model Minority and winning the Pulitzer is not funny. No parents care about their kids winning the Pulitzer.
That suit is kind of bad.