Cambodian American

One of the main characters in the story was Loung Ung, a 5 year old and a second last born who comes from a middle class family of eight children. She was a daughter of a former member of the Cambodian Royal secret service and they lived in Phnom Penh. Loung's father loved gambling and used to win most of the times until the day he went too far and bet all his money and house on a game to the extent of almost losing his own family. The Khmer rouge was a group of communists who stormed Phnom Penh

His family was prestigious and the Cambodian King Sisowath Monivong made many visits. Along with the Khmer Rouge movement, Mr. Pot managed to kill about 1.5 million Cambodians out of the 8 million at the time. His rise into power is a story of great triumph to evil, but for now let us see the origins of the Evilest Man on Earth. Pol Pot was born in Prek Sbauv, a small village in 1925. This village was approximately 100 miles north of Phnom Penh, the Cambodian Capital. His family was a little more

Pol Pot and his communist movement, the Khmer Rouge, ruled in Cambodia from 1975 until 1979, they undertook a wanton attack on the lives of all Cambodian people. Pol Pot’s actions to enforce a communist structure have had an impact which has carried though into 21st century Cambodia. The rich national culture was stripped back as they were forced into the ‘Year Zero’. The acts of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge are linked to the poverty being experienced by five million people. Saloth Sar, commonly

During the 1970s, Cambodia was under the communist government and started to have the war within the own nation. Begin of 1975 Khmer Rouge (pol pot) got the chance to control the whole nation and started to evacuate all the rich and educated residents from the capital city (Phnom Penh) to live in every far villages from the city. The prime minister of Khmer Rouge put the order for the soldiers killed all the educated such as professors, singers, actors, reporters, and included the doctors. As my

into buying a book many assumed would be written from a Cambodian perspective”(Lay). The critics is like stating that she is not Cambodian but she is Cambodian who have a half Cambodian mother and a Cambodian father. This is like you are not a human but it is false but kinda true because human count as a high class animal. This is not Loung’s problem but it was the critics proclaimed she is not Cambodian. Someone stated in ung’s book, “We Cambodian have someone

On the other hand, the Vietnamese refugees faced different issues during their escape from their homeland. A staggering statistic states, “It is estimated that half of the boat people were drowned at sea or killed during their journey to find freedom” (Cao 6). Moreover, it states that, while fleeing Vietnam by boat, there were cases of robbery and of pirate raids. Based on Uong experience, fleeing into America was not an easy journey. “Those who escaped death by drowning had to endure multiple robberies

book, “Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees. Citizenship. The New America”, Aihwa Ong explains that the lived experiences of Cambodian refugees in Oakland and San Francisco, California, from the mi-to late 1980s arriving and living in the United States. She looks at the experiences from an historical, ideological, and inter- and intra- cultural conditions of their assimilation into wider American society. Aihwa Ong uses an intention to “bring into focus the ambiguities and ambivalence about losses and gains

In my second week of Asian American Studies, I got to learn about how the reality of Asian Americans being in poverty level are often overlooked by popular myths about how Asian Americans are best educated, high income, and very successful. The common theme through all the readings in class is that Asians are commonly discriminated as one monolithic group and are often judged by their race and culture. In fact, I used to face such discrimination during my childhood from other kids assuming I am Chinese

In the article “The Professional Burden of Being a ‘Model Minority,’” Adia Harvey Wingfield points out how the “Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Americans have made inroads into…white-collar professions, such as engineering and medicine, but Hmong, Laotian, Cambodian, and Filipino Americans remain overrepresented in lower-wage jobs” (Wingfield). Since the model minority stereotype does project Asians as good, trustworthy people, East Asians in the 1960s would have

small group of Filipinos in the early 18th century that settled in present day Louisiana. The first major influx of Asian Americans was Chinese Americans who came in the 1800’s to find financial opportunity during the California gold rush. They settled in the Golden State and eventually spread out all over the United States, creating the now-famous Chinatowns that millions of Americans visit every year. There is a continual migration of well educated South Asians and East Asians for job and education