Word: pham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many Asians, stress is the price of survival. Nearly half the 160 Vietnamese students at Brighton High School in Boston left their families in Viet Nam or in refugee camps. These immigrants must learn English at school in bilingual programs. In a Brighton chemistry class, Teacher Dang Pham lectures about the dac, the long and the khi before discussing the concepts of solid, liquid and gas in English. When test time comes, most students choose to take the test in English. Says Pham: "They have to learn to adjust to a new system in a new society so they...
...claims to champion the cause of the weak and the oppressed, but it had no hesitation about marching into Afghanistan to prop up an unpopular regime." Meanwhile, Cuba's Castro railed against "criminal Yankee imperialism" and new CIA plots to assassinate him, while Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong attacked China for its collusion with the U.S. in a "policy of hostility" toward China's neighbors. China has never been a member of the nonaligned movement, and did not attend the meeting...
...children of war, Paul, Nimrod, Kim Seng and Pham, who proved there is hope...
...already know. Whatever becomes of them and of their countries will have been decided in some absolutely innocuous moment during these innocuous years, a moment they will not be able to trace. Their thinking done, they will rule largely by reflex, just as their parents did before them. Even Pham. Even Pham will rule by reflex...
...that he thinks of such things now, of course. Pham has never heard of the I.R.A. or P.L.O. or Israel or Lebanon. The name Ireland has no meaning to him, nor Poland, nor any other distant place except America, which has no particularly clear image for him either, other than that country where it is said one may be happy. His immediate wishes are sufficient; to get a bit more sleep, and to rid himself of the nightmare that the boatmaster will break out of jail and once again go for his head. Whatever else he thinks he does...