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Corrina's brother Langlo will graduate in January from B.U. Langlo works in the Rainbow on Sunday nights. He is open and friendly and speaks with many of the customers. But he is reticent when it comes to his family's history. "I don't want my history being published," he says. "I'm planning to write a book myself. When I graduate, I'm going to write a book about how much we had to struggle...
...Langlo had hoped to go into criminal justice.He decided his English is not good enough; stillhe knows that there's a market for this field inhis community. "Asian people are very tothemselves and they don't tell people what theythink, so we need more Asian representatives...
...Rainbow has cleared out. Langlo'sparents are putting away lettuce and rice andsoup. Someone is cleaning the kitchen. Langlodarts from table to table, wiping them down,sweeping the floors. "People think Chinatown's notsafe, because of the race. People are afraid ofChinese people...
...Langlo does not want to talk aboutChinese-Vietnamese tensions in Chinatown. "Ireally don't care. I have so much different racefriends. I try not to talk to them about it,because I'm afraid it would offend me or I wouldoffend them so I try not to talk, `cause I meanwe're all friends. I talk exactly how I feel andwe talk about everything, but when it comes torace tensions we just don't talk about...
...used to be shy," Langlo says. "You know whatAsians are like. We keep to ourselves. But hellno, I'm not shy now. I lost a lot of things when Iwas shy, I didn't have a lot of friends, andpeople would call me `chink.' You're being stupidin America for being shy, so I'm speaking out,loud and clear...
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