The Vietnam War: Vietnamese Boat People
Vietnam is a country that extends about 1000 miles from Southern China and Southwards to the Gulf of Thailand. The country’s official language is Vietnamese, and its capital city is known as Hanoi. Vietnamese are newcomers to North American who still hold their culture, and they have traced their civilization back even further to a religion known as Phung-Nguyen that existed before 2000 B.C. This paper contains a discussion and also research about the Vietnam War or the so-called Vietnamese “boat people.”
Vietnam War Evidence shows that China colonized the country by the name Vietnam since even the name of the country is derived from a Chinese word “Viet” which designates a hundred tribes that populated the Southern regions of China. The Chinese empire wanted to extend its control over Vietnam, after all, they managed, and the Viet accepted Chinese official designations to rule their territory. Conflicts …show more content…
The United States accepted the boat people due to a combination of the legacy of destruction in Vietnam, economic sanctions, and conflicts that they faced from their neighboring countries (Park, 2007). From the video clip, Vietnamese states that they face challenges being refugees in America. A lecturer who is now a refugee says that the primary problem that they are facing in America is that they had to join school again to learn the language the Americans use so as they can easily socialize and communicate. Life became difficult since they had to learn very many vocabularies to be able to read newspapers and magazines. They also face a challenge of getting jobs that they are lowly paid compared to their
Vietnam War Evidence shows that China colonized the country by the name Vietnam since even the name of the country is derived from a Chinese word “Viet” which designates a hundred tribes that populated the Southern regions of China. The Chinese empire wanted to extend its control over Vietnam, after all, they managed, and the Viet accepted Chinese official designations to rule their territory. Conflicts …show more content…
The United States accepted the boat people due to a combination of the legacy of destruction in Vietnam, economic sanctions, and conflicts that they faced from their neighboring countries (Park, 2007). From the video clip, Vietnamese states that they face challenges being refugees in America. A lecturer who is now a refugee says that the primary problem that they are facing in America is that they had to join school again to learn the language the Americans use so as they can easily socialize and communicate. Life became difficult since they had to learn very many vocabularies to be able to read newspapers and magazines. They also face a challenge of getting jobs that they are lowly paid compared to their