11/8/15
week 8
Love, Money, Prison, Sin, Revenge
My parents and grandparents came to the US as immigrants and they have many stories to tell. Especially my grandfather, who was a refugee for almost his whole life. He fled China when the World War 2 began and arrived in Vietnam and fled again once the Communist party took over in 1975. The stories my parents and grandfather tell are mainly educational, so that I know about the struggles my family took to come to America and start a new life. In no way was it meant to excite an inert nationalist fervor within me for a country that does not exist on the map anymore. Along with the other first generation Vietnamese Americans, we can not take arms and fly to Vietnam to free our so called "motherland" because some of us may have never seen this place before. I have never been to Vietnam or even China and I don't plan on going overseas to visit anytime soon because my home has always been in California, USA. While reading this article, I found it strange how these siblings had a mentality that they could just go back to Vietnam and free their parent's homeland. Maybe it was out of courage, or even insanity, but I could never drop everything and take arms to fight for a country I don't have any personal ties to other than hearing about it from stories.
Q: What are stories told from our parents or grandparents supposed to teach us? Is there a reason why stories are told?
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