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- I'm a second-generation Vietnamese and Indian American! Both of my parents immigrated for different reasons; my mom came as a refugee fleeing the Vietnam War while my dad immigrated with his family for education and economic opportunity.
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- The Vietnamese community is complex; Vietnamese immigrants are more susceptible to poverty, gang violence, incarceration, and deportation than some other Asian ethnicities. Many Vietnamese activists I work with trace these issues to their experiences with displacement and economic instability due to colonialism, which is why many of them mobilize against U.S. intervention and deportation defense. However, despite being systemically impacted by these punitive systems, the Vietnamese population in the U.S. is the most conservative out of all the Asian ethnicities, likely because of their strong anti-communist sentiment and experiences with the war.
- Source: Tran, V. A. (2022). We Are Here: Civic Engagement through Southeast Asian Deportation Community Defense. Social Studies and the Young Learner, 34 (3) pp. 25–32. National Council for the Social Studies. https://www.socialstudies.org/so cial-studies-and-young-learner/34/3/we-are-here-civic-education-through-south east-asian
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- Meanwhile, the Indian population in the U.S. tends to have more economic wealth, largely because many Indian immigrants had preexisting economic or caste privilege in India that allowed them to immigrate -- though that doesn't apply to all of them. Most of them do not exist in as much proximity to the immigration system, incarceration, or gang violence. Some Indian immigrants have mobilized heavily against affirmative action (working against social justice) because they think it would open more opportunity for them. However, there are other Indian immigrants who participate in social justice through nonprofit advocacy, protesting, and community volunteering. Overall, I feel like the Indian community feels like they are 'less impacted' by social inequity and focus on education/career success instead. It's important to note though that I grew up around in Silicon Valley, where many economically successful Indian immigrants live in, so my perspective may not represent the entire Indian immigrant community of the U.S.
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