Andrew Nguyen
ASA 002 A03
Week 8
As a Vietnamese-American whose parents fled Vietnam due
to the Communist takeover, I, too, dislike the Viet Cong. However, I would not
go so far as to take hostages to find a way to fight against the Viet Cong. I
do not understand why those four men did what they did. Their parents came to
the United States hoping for a better life and they tried to go back to the
conflict. Meanwhile, because they were film fanatics, they had false hope that
they could be famous heroes. I see this as an extreme example of hybridization.
These men feel passionate about both their Vietnamese refugee background and
their American film heroes – two completely different cultures. On the other
hand, the author of the article seems to be experiencing hybridization in a
different way. He sees himself as an American journalist but questions it as he
feels bound by his Vietnamese background. I feel like he hints that he wants to
be fully American but he feels it is impossible due to his ethnicity. If there
were a spectrum of hybridization, the four men would represent the extreme side
and the author would represent the weak side. Neither side is a good place to
be.
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