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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Vietnamese American (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Vietnamese American population fits in with the stereotype of the poorly assimilated immigrant population still culturally and emotionally connected to the homeland and the relatively assimilated second-generation to whom the old country is a mere abstraction.
		Vietnamese children who maintain close connections to their own communities are often driven to succeed, while those who are outsiders to their own society often assimilate into some of the most alienated youth cultures of American society and fall into delinquency.
		A Taiwanese American is an American of Taiwanese ancestry.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Vietnamese-American (6935 words)

	The New Migrants from Asia: Vietnamese in the United States \| Asian American History \| OAH Magazine of History
		Since the Vietnamese were forced to leave their country as a result of the war, personal adjustments—such as becoming proficient in English, separating from families, and dealing with war memories—are pressing issues.
		Those Vietnamese Americans who have spent most of their lives in the United States are coming of age and beginning to exert some of their influence.
		Vietnamese communities located throughout the United States do not exist in isolation from the larger society but, rather, are positioned in a relationship with other communities.
	www.oah.org /pubs/magazine/asianamerican/do.html (2972 words)

	AM I AN AMERICAN? A Vietnamese-American Life
		Vietnamese refugees came with no plans and in large numbers to a country that had made virtually no plans to receive them, especially in such great numbers, and did not know how to provide informed assistance.
		Because of the commotion in the United States once Vietnamese people began arriving, many solid families were forced apart after they had escaped the terror of their country’s war.
		We played Vietnamese music and language tapes and ate Vietnamese food, but the Vietnamese culture was not my adoptive parents’ culture, so they could not pass it on to me, and we knew no Vietnamese families.
	www.fairfamilies.org /newsfromfair/1996/96VoicesAmIAnAmerican.htm (848 words)

	Ameredia: Vietnamese American Market Demographics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orange County has the largest concentration of Vietnamese Americans and is the largest Vietnamese population concentration outside of Vietnam.
		Westminster is considered the main cultural center of Vietnamese Americans with several in-language media outlets originating from this and adjacent areas.
		Vietnamese American businesses are generally located in Little Saigons and Chinatowns.
	www.ameredia.com /demographics/vietnamese.html (233 words)

	American Experience \| Daughter From Danang \| People & Events
		Vietnamese women often lived with their American boyfriends, and referred to them as "husbands," regardless of their actual marital status.
		Vietnamese women who had American boyfriends or had borne a child of an American suffered from their society's disapproval.
		In the mid-1980s, the American press focused attention on the plight of Vietnamese children of American fathers.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/daughter/peopleevents/p_gis.html (1012 words)

	Vietnamese American Books
		Because she had learned Vietnamese firsthand, she was able to get very personal interviews with the local women and discover their unseen role during that time.
		While it does not heistate to describe some of the difficulties Vietnamese Americans have faced, overall it is a positive look at their contributions in the United States.
		The change of a Vietnamese's life from the time he was born in a small town in Vietnam until he resettled in the United States of America.
	www.adoptvietnam.org /books/books-vn-americans.htm (920 words)

	Vietnamese American National Gala 2006 - About Us
		The Vietnamese American National Gala (VANG) is a national annual celebration of Vienamese heritage and pride, which is held in conjunction with the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a month-long celebration in May of each year, which honors the achievement of Asian Pacific Americans and recognizes their contributions to America.
		VANG is the Vietnamese American community's version of Oscar, but it has a broader scope in recognizing professional achievements and community contributions.
		The Vietnamese American National Gala (VANG) is a national annual celebration of Vietnamese heritage and pride, which is held in conjunction with the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a month-long celebration in May of each year, that honors the achievements of Asian Pacific Americans and recognizes their contributions to America.
	www.vangusa.com /m_aboutus.php (1395 words)

	Asian-Nation : Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues :: The Vietnamese American Community
		It is an interesting overview of how the Vietnamese American community has developed and flourished in the 30 years since the end of the Viet Nam War.
		But, among Asian groups in California, Vietnamese have the lowest rates of English language proficiency, according to a recent report by the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, and this means many have minimal communication with public officials.
		In 2003, she garnered attention after organizing protests when a Vietnamese woman was shot to death in her kitchen by a San Jose police officer who mistook her vegetable peeler for a cleaver.
	www.asian-nation.org /vietnamese-community.shtml (1478 words)

	Asian-Nation : Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues :: Viet Nam -- Early History & Legends
		Many scholars and Vietnamese consider this to be the end of historical legend and the true beginning of modern Vietnamese history.
		The first Vietnamese rebellion occurred in 39 A.D. and was led by the legendary Trung sisters.
		Like the origins of the Vietnamese people and culture, the history of the Vietnamese language is also a mixture of different parts and components.
	www.asian-nation.org /vietnam-history.shtml (1484 words)

	Amazon.fr : Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose: Livres en anglais: Barbara Tran,Monique T. D. Truong,Luu ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vietnamese American writers Tran, who has published in such journals as Amerasia and Antioch Review, and her coeditors present a volume rich in the voices of people made to straddle two cultures.
		While other anthologies of Vietnamese literature focus on the experience of the Vietnam War, this book focuses mostly on first- or second-generation Vietnamese Americans as they maneuver through American culture.
		Not to be missed are Andrew Lam's two stories "Grandma's Tales," an unexpectedly droll flight of fancy about the death of a Vietnamese grandmother, and "Show and Tell," the moving portrayal of the introduction of a Vietnamese refugee boy into an eighth-grade American class.
	www.amazon.fr /Watermark-Vietnamese-American-Poetry-Prose/dp/1889876046 (527 words)

	Vietnam Yesterday & Today: Vietnamese Abroad
		In 1975, with the end of the war in Vietnam imminent, Mai Thi Kim, a poor, young Vietnamese woman, sent her seven-year-old daughter to America as part of a controversial evacuation program known as Operation Babylift.
		The philosophy of the journal is an appreciation of the heritage of Vietnamese culture without restricting its readers to the definitions of the Vietnamese American role.
		Two Vietnamese refugees have created this important site that enables other Vietnamese "boatpeople" to share their exeriences and perhaps even locate relatives.
	servercc.oakton.edu /~wittman/abroad.htm (767 words)

	Wikinfo \| Vietnamese American
		They make up the bulk of overseas Vietnamese and are also one group of Asian-Americans.
		Membership in the Democratic Party was once considered anathema among Vietnamese-Americans because it was seen as friendly to communism, although support for the Republican Party had somewhat eroded in recent years as the Democratic Party is seen in a more favorable light.
		Notably, some Vietnamese-Americans in the United States have recently lobbied many city governments to make the former South Vietnamese flag instead of the current flag of Vietnam the symbol of Vietnamese in the United States, a move that the Vietnamese government objected to.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Vietnamese_American (1013 words)

	Vietnamese American Council
		The Vietnamese American Cultural and Social Council (VACSC) was founded in 1982 as a non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting the social and cultural advancements of the Vietnamese American community, as well as helping Vietnamese Americans integrate into the mainstream while maintaining their Vietnamese cultural heritage.
		Because of increasing intergenerational conflicts between parents and their children, youth have begun to feel alienated from their families which has made them more vulnerable to gangs that provide emotional and moral support, self-esteem and a sense of belonging that youth do not feel they are getting at home.
		To increase the paticipation of Vietnamese Americans in the voting process, the Civic Forum Project also provides information to voters before the election to allow them time to understand the issues and know the candidates.
	www.scu.edu /SCU/Programs/Diversity/vacsc.html (623 words)

	Vietnamese American Youth Leadership Conference
		Young Vietnamese Americans need to hone their talents by understanding the complex national and local issues that affect their communities, bridge the generation and cultural gaps, and lead by example.
		The objective of the Vietnamese American Youth Leadership Conference (VAYLC) is to create a venue where young people may share their ideas, values, and goals with one another.
		VAYLC realizes that the enthusiasm and expertise needed to build the Vietnamese American community may be easily found among industrious young people and adults from all across the United States.
	www.vaylc.org (471 words)

	National Congress of Vietnamese American Research Project on Nail Salon Industry
		Founded in 1986, the National Congress of Vietnamese Americans is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community advocacy organization working to advance the cause of Vietnamese Americans in a plural but united America – e pluribus unum – by participating actively and fully as civic minded citizens engaged in the areas of education, culture and civil liberties.
		A trend in the Vietnamese American community today is the growing number of Vietnamese women working in the nail salon industry.
		The endpoint of the study is a research paper that has investigated the story behind Vietnamese women and their involvement in the nail salon industry.
	www.ncvaonline.org /archive/prj_ResearchNailSalon_TrinhTran.shtml (1046 words)

	Vietnamese Magazine - Vietnamese American Magazine - Tieng Magazine
		Our philosophy is that while we appreciate the heritage of Vietnamese culture, we do not need to restrict ourselves to the definitions of the Vietnamese American role.
		This is a story of a young Vietnamese woman who was inspired to make a difference for victims of the tsunami and katrina disasters.
		It is used to define the second wave of Vietnamese refugees after the war—a mass exodus of people out of Vietnam in the months leading up to and years after 1975.
	www.tiengmag.com (646 words)

	History of Vietnamese American Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These Vietnamese people had no idea what their life would be like.
		A whole new language to learn, a radical culture to adapt to, and the acceptance of the American people were some of the difficult challenges that the Vietnamese immigrants had to face.
		The Vietnamese people began to take education seriously, for it was the only way to move up the ladder in the American society.
	www.bluedojo.com /papers/vietnamese (1096 words)

	Vietnamese American Youth Leadership Conference - Speakers
		The fellowship in the American College of Dentist is given to those who provide leadership in the field of dentistry and demonstrate commitment to community services.
		She also sits on the national board of the Asian American Journalists Association, a 1,700-member group that works to ensure fair and accurate news coverage of Asian Americans and increase the number of Asians in the media business.
		Currently she serves as a board member for the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum and was the first graduate scholar of the Council on Asian Pacific American Leadership.
	www.vaylc.org /biographies2005.htm (6394 words)

	National Congress of Vietnamese Americans
		The NCVA Report “Vietnamese Americans in Hurricane-Impacted Gulf Areas: An Assessment of Housing Needs,” will also be released during the briefing.
		Organizations representing the Vietnamese community testify on the rebuilding efforts of the Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans.
		The NCVA Report “Vietnamese Americans in Hurricane-Impacted Gulf Areas: An Assessment of Housing Needs,” is released.
	www.ncvaonline.org (873 words)

	CELCEE - Vietnamese-American Entrepreneurship
		The largest concentration of Vietnamese individuals outside of Vietnam is found the cities comprising Little Saigon, the cities of Westminster and Garden Grove, California, where they constitute 30.7 percent and 21 percent of the population, respectively ("Vietnamese Americans," n.d.).
		Despite effectively negotiating with Vietnamese officials to lower tariff rates for Vietnamese exports, community disapproval of the Chamber's involvement with communist officials of their former country dulled their "tangible success" (Tran, 2003, 8).
		Years later in 1999, adapting to changed attitudes, the Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce modified its name to Vietnamese-American Chamber of Commerce, underscoring its revised mission to broaden its appeal to other groups and encourage other ethnicities to bring businesses by all ethnic groups in the area.
	www.celcee.edu /publications/digest/Dig04-02.html (1546 words)

	Protest and Political Incorporation: Vietnamese American Protests, 1975-2001
		Using event data from newspaper reports, we trace protest by Vietnamese Americans over the past 26 years as a means to assess political incorporation.
		By looking at the issues, tactics, and development of protest within the Vietnamese American community, we get a sense of the development and incorporation of that community.
		We find that protest, particularly in the form of demonstrations, is a common form of making claims among Vietnamese-Americans, and that the issues expressed are primarily about foreign policy, directed toward the old homeland, rather than domestic political concerns.
	repositories.cdlib.org /csd/04-08 (209 words)

	AsianWeek: Feature: Vietnamese American Reaction Divided (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Van Thai Tran said that many Vietnamese Americans have close ties with McCain because he is viewed as a heroic war figure, risking his life to fight for South Vietnam.
		And for the most part, first-generation Vietnamese Americans, including Joe Tran, admitted that they are likely to support the candidate who “sacrifices their life for our country,” Tran said, though he himself has not finalized his decision on whom he will support for president.
		The still-fresh emotional and political turmoil among the refugee community was evident last spring when thousands of Vietnamese Americans in Westminster, Calif., Texas, and other parts of the country protested the displaying of a Ho Chi Minh poster and the Vietnamese communist flag in a Southern California video store.
	www.asianweek.com /2000_02_24/feature_vietamreaction.html (810 words)

	Vietnamese-American Peace Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vietnamese and Americans examining plans for the Peace Park in Ha Bac Province, Vietnam.
		On the left is Nguyen Ngoc Hung, a North Vietnamese veteran who, in 1990, was so moved during his visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park near Neillsville, Wisconsin, that he lit an incense stick and said a prayer for his brother who had been missing in action for over 20 years.
		American Veteran, Mike Boehm, and Vietnamese veteran, Nguyen Nhu Nga, break ground together for the tree planting at the Peace Park in Ha Bac Province, Vietnam, May 11, 1995.
	grunt.space.swri.edu /vnpeace.htm (369 words)

	National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies
		The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Vietnamese American health was created to address and increase awareness of health issues affecting the Vietnamese community.
		The FAQs emphasize health problems, such as hepatitis B, cervical cancer, and diabetes, which are of special concern to the Vietnamese population.
		Included are statistics showing the prevalence of these diseases and conditions among the Vietnamese population.
	www.navasa.org /health_faq.htm (397 words)

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