ASA 2-A02
Blog 8
After reading “Love, Money, Prison, Sin, Revenge”, I realized that although research does provide a big picture and the underlying factors that may contribute to a particular behavior of a population, it fails to explain the motives behind each act. Unlike the first wave of refugees which was full of professionals and intellectuals that were well adapted, the later wave of refugees, or the boat people, struggled on the journey to and in the U.S. However, I have noticed that most research that were done on the Asian American population in the past mostly focused on East and South Asians. Refugees from Southeast Asia were rarely included, and as the author said, they became helpless and impoverished after they immigrated into the U.S. As a result, many Vietnamese youth hoped to capture attention from the public and increase Vietnamese representation. Therefore, although research may provide implications and explanations about a certain phenomenon or behavior, we cannot generalize the results and apply them to the entire Asian American population, especially with the lack of representation for Southeast Asians.
Although Vietnamese make up a large percentage of the Asian population in California, they are not well-represented in the media and politics. What can we do to increase representation for Vietnamese?
Pictured is one of the brothers who took hostages at a Good Guys electronic stores in 1991, as described in "Love, Money, Prison, Sin, Revenge"
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