Final Thoughts
Public Deposited- Creator
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Nguyen, Mai
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
- Abstract
- In fall of 1977, my family settled in Garden Grove, California after fleeing a war in our homeland of Vietnam. My parents and their eight kids crammed into a three-bedroom ranch home in a typical post-war California suburb. The wafting smell of fish sauce and boisterous voices of Vietnamese children were not a welcomed addition to this middle-class neighborhood. The tensions over U.S. involvement in Vietnam still inflicted raw angry emotions from neighbors. Our Asian faces were a reminder of enemy combatants and a war recently lost. We fell victim to harsh and overt discrimination – derogatory words were spray painted on our house, my siblings and I were taunted and beaten, and an attempted home invasion by white supremacists was deterred by rapid police response.
- Date of publication
- 2013
- DOI
- Resource type
- Journal Item
- Rights statement
- In Copyright
- Journal title
- Carolina Planning Journal
- Journal volume
- 38
- Page start
- 64
- Page end
- 64
- Language
- English
- Digital collection
- Carolina Planning Journal
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