Section 2
Week 8
I felt that although I did not relate to the issues that
were felt in the article, I could still really understand and feel for them. I
am talking about both the early first and second generation Vietnamese who came
after the wars and genocide in Southeast Asia. Essentially, there was no way to
prepare them to transition to the US. And even if it sounds like a blessing to
come to the “great” US, they were greeted with hostility, neglect, poverty, and
dependence on the government. To re-account everything they were feeling, they
had to grow up with a legacy of being a loser, become wandering ghosts on the
US streets, and inevitably helpless in America. And so this all builds up the
ideal of the transition for the Vietnamese as “Crippled Americanization”, which
nobody is truly benefiting or moving forward; instead, the US is just
sustaining the Vietnamese, while the Vietnamese can only survive and cannot
really become Americanized at that point in their life.
Question: From the trends I see in ASA 1 and 2, I wonder if
there was any instance where there was a smooth transition for 1st
generation immigrants to another country. It seems it is primarily the third
generation that can integrate into the new country.
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