Melissa Mae De Guzman
ASA 02 – Section A01
Week 8 Blog
Having an identity where you share
two cultures is always very conflicting. In this week’s reading, “Love, Money,
Prison, Sin, Revenge” I was able to read from the perspective from a son of a Vietnamese
refugee. An incident occurred fifteen years after the Vietnam War where four
Vietnamese Americans felt the need to have a mass killing at a video store due
to their families’ suffering in Vietnam; communism deeply hurt their family’s
beliefs.
The author furthered the discussion
by explaining the difficulty of living in America with two cultures that clash
with one another and how it is natural to feel revenge. I always felt that
America’s culture has always been shifting my views towards my Filipino
culture, whether it being the clothes I wear, the food I eat, or simply the way
I speak. A feeling of revenge does come and go because of the way America views
minorities, but it is important to realize that revenge just creates a mess
rather than doing any justice.
Question: What can America do to make other minorities feel
that America is their home also?
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