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...away, Nu sold cigarettes on the streets of Saigon to support their two children. By 1974, Xuong's concerns about the war's course had grown. He had never thought the United States would leave without at least ensuring a viable South Vietnam. And like many in the large ethnic Chinese community in Saigon?which would provide the majority of the boat people fleeing to the U.S. after the war ended?he dreaded the idea of a Communist regime ever coming to power. "We had never thought about leaving," he says. But when the North rolled into Saigon...
...often the case for the children of immigrants, Victor sometimes found himself torn between his ethnic heritage and his American identity. He slept through many of the Saturday-morning Chinese classes that his parents sent him to. When Victor said that he wished to pursue a career in the Los Angeles Police Department (L.A.P.D.), his father was pleased because, he said, it would set a good example for "others in the Indochinese community.'' Slightly annoyed, Victor replied, "Dad, we're Americans...
Regarding several recent columns and op-eds on campus ethnic groups...
...find it amazing that students still feel the need to organize ethnic groups as if that would be the best way to highlight multiculturalism on the campus. Such groups, in my opinion, tend to be divisive and foster the belief that members of such groups want to segregate themselves...
...organize groups based not on our ethnicity or color of our skin, but on concepts and values that we all believe in as members of one university community? As Americans and as children of immigrants who came to this country—united in the values that attracted all of us to America— we don’t need to make distinctions where we came from or what our native cultural values and beliefs are. This is not to suggest we should cast off our ethnic heritages, but we ought to find ways to engage in a common...