Section 1
Week 7
In Professor Valverde’s writing, “Creating Identity,
Defining Culture, and Making History from an Art Exhibit: ‘Unfinished Story: A
Tribute to My Mothers’”, Valverde mentions an artist who expressed her views of
Vietnam and the war through her artworks and was labeled as a ‘communist’ by
Vietnamese Americans. After reading the professor’s writing, I was surprised to
find out that Vietnamese Americans protested against their own race in order to
gain power but because I am a Hmong person who has no country to call home, I could understand their action due to the fact that they felt
homeless. The Vietnam War severed the Vietnamese Americans’ bond with their
homeland; therefore, they felt inferior and in order to maintain a sense of
sanity, they would want to reach for power. As a result, they started protesting
even when there is no reason to do so. I also felt sad for these Vietnamese Americans
because there only sense of security is to believe that they chose the correct
path which is going against communism and leaving Vietnam. I believe that people
who are able to express their opinion which is outside of the ideology created
by Americans are very strong because they are not only going against Americans
but their own people as well. The Question is: Where do the people who are able
to express their different opinions find the courage to do so?
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