So I'm in Dallas, Texas...
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Formaldehyde
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When are you taking the obligatory tour of the Texas School Book Depository?
cybrxkhan
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There should probably be a decently sized Vietnamese immigrant community somewhere nearby, for what's it worth.
How a bunch of Vietnamese gravitated towards Texas, I don't know.
How a bunch of Vietnamese gravitated towards Texas, I don't know.
Goodfella
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It's kind of like how a bunch of Arabs decided to move to Detroit of all places and one of the largest Mongolian communities is here in Arlington.
Formaldehyde
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Is it really that difficult to discern why they gravitated towards parts of the country where they were largely welcomed and had similar climates after escaping after the Vietnam War so they wouldn't have to answer for their deeds?
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cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Is it really that difficult to discern why they gravitated towards parts of the country where they were largely welcomed and had similar climates after escaping after the Vietnam War so they wouldn't have to answer for their deeds?
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I keep tanking Texas' climate was more arid, forgetting it can get pretty tropical in some places. Though I'm not sure why the govt thought Houston was a decent place when there were other candidates, not that Houston isn't good enough. I was also not aware that they were largely welcomed at the time, though, which I find baffling that they would've received a warm welcome at all. Additionally on the other hand the us government designated several parts of the us for Vietnamese ettlement, including Missisippi, Pennsylvania (where my moms family went), Minnesota I think (through that might just be the Hmong), among others, so it wasn't just Houston.
Though the overwhelming amount of Vietnamese are in SoCal, anyways
Actually now I vaguely remember my dad telling me how my uncle used to work in Texas for a couple of years since it was easier for him to find a job there at the time, and how my dad at the age of seventeen drove the entire family from SoCal to Texas to visit because my grandpa just came so he obviously wouldn't have a drivers license.
Formaldehyde
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As the article points out, Houston was the second largest concentration at the time behind San Jose.
The Vietnam War in general received less criticism in Texas than it would have elsewhere. But from what I remember, the refugees after the war didn't receive much hostility from any of the places where they went immediately afterwards. As the Wiki article pointed out, there was a lot of "war guilt" at the time.
The Vietnam War in general received less criticism in Texas than it would have elsewhere. But from what I remember, the refugees after the war didn't receive much hostility from any of the places where they went immediately afterwards. As the Wiki article pointed out, there was a lot of "war guilt" at the time.
cybrxkhan
Asian Xwedodah
Coming as a second generation immigrant it is difficult for me at first to imagine there being less hostility to the refugees at first, even if they were mainly western-educated or western-cultured (?) folks who came from more affluent backgrounds (although obviously many of them lost everything fleeing here), could more easily "assimilate" into American society, but now that I think about it it sort of makes sense. From what my dad told me of his experiences of coming to America as a youngster, it appears he did not face the sort of discrimination later, less "westernized" Asian refugees would face, or rather not to the same extent. It seems additionally that because there weren't that many Vietnamese and southeast Asians in the first place there wasn't enough of them to become a "problem" so there was no established negative stigma against them, any negative stereotyping being derived from vague ones concerning Asians in general.
I suppose in my both sides of my family anyhow the fact that we were very representative of the typical first wave refugee helped a lot.
But now I'm just rambling something again.
Zack
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Dallas is just skyscrapers. Go to Fort Worth.
Howw did you get in? I thought we had built a wall around the entire state to keep non-Texans out.
Formaldehyde
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@cybrxkhan: There was a lot of publicity back then about the refugees. Some communities in the South in particular even openly campaigned to be part of the effort to find them new homes.
Goodfella
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Virginia. It didn't occur to me that there was an Arlington right next to Dallas until after I posted. While we're on the subject, Northern Virginia, including Arlington, has one of the largest Vietnamese populations as well.
Mango Elephant
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Here in Raleigh we have one of the largest communities of Yankees in the entire country.
Dallas has plenty of Yankee refugees also.
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