Word: vietnam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large marble gate straddling Beach Street. From South Station, the arch announces Chinatown. Through the arch, the Rainbow Restaurant is one block down on Beach Street. The Rainbow is a Vietnamese and Chinese restaurant and it serves cheap, good food. A Chinese family that immigrated to Boston from Vietnam runs the restaurant...
...After Vietnam, Corrina's family lived in Malaysia. Then they moved to the United States. On the ship from Malaysia to America, Corrina saw girls get raped and killed. "Sometimes there is a lot of shame in a family when a girl gets raped. Sometimes the family will throw her overboard. So many people die on the boat, sickness or no food or too young. So many people...
Berry said that U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara came to Harvard during the Vietnam anti-war period. Students demonstrating against the war opposed McNamara's presence, forcing him to be "exited away from protesters through the food tunnels," Berry says...
...sold out. Korean-American Nam June Paik, whose influential multimedia artworks incorporate TVs and computers, says he was talking about the information superhighway in his own work long before it became a catchword. And architect Maya Ying Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, designed the black wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a stark monument that compels visitors not to revel in the glory of war, but to reflect on its sorrows...
...greater numbers and at greater speed than ever before is people. What were once clear divisions are now tangles of crossed lines: there are 40,000 "Canadians" resident in Hong Kong, many of whose first language is Cantonese. And with people come customs: while new immigrants from Taiwan and Vietnam and India -- some of the so-called Asian Calvinists -- import all-American values of hard work and family closeness and entrepreneurial energy to America, America is sending its values of upward mobility and individualism and melting-pot hopefulness to Taipei and Saigon and Bombay...