Talk:Vietnamese Americans

L.ngo (talk) 16:58, 29 March 2017 (UTC)Evaluation of this article

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This article is neutral there is minor phrasing that paint a picture that the Southern Vietnamese person is better than the communist Northern Vietnamese or those that are of mixed ethnicity. There are many view points that are underrepresented and are more so through the talk pagethrough the controversy of who truely quaifies as a Vietnamese American and it is more prevalent in this talk section of the article.

Model Minority Discussion

I would like to add a new section to the Vietnamese American article about the model minority stereotype that I feel is more unique and should be separate from the model minority article. I would be using information from Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon, by Phuong Tran Nguyen- who is an associate professor of history at California State University. The section I add, in a very brief summary, would be about how the Vietnamese community were pressured to do well out of moral pressure from being saved, as well as essentially rewriting the loss in Vietnam. The conservatives and veterans supported them in hopes of this. However, American media and pop culture had a negative view of them, and portrayed them as the community as diseased and run by gangs. In response, Vietnamese community leaders such as Yen Do and Tony Lam sought to build up a more "responsible" image of the Vietnamese, so they launched campaigns to better their image and build up their economic and political successes. They essentially used the model minority stereotype to their advantage to overwrite their previous image. About this, I plan to write about 100-200 words in a new subsection (either on its own or under Community Issues) that goes into more detail than what I have here.

Full Citation: Nguyen, Phuong Tran. Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon. University of Illinois Press, 2017. pp. 97-120. Jtran83 (talk) 23:02, 3 May 2023 (UTC)