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vietnamese american

A man points his finger at a yellow billboard with black writing in Vietnamese and English
Protest
Backlash over anti-racist billboard challenges Houston’s Vietnamese American community
The Truong family arrived to the United States not long after fleeing Vietnam in 1975, when the then-capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, fell to the North Vietnamese army. Thu-Thuy Truong, far right, places bunny ears above her brother, Sy.
Conflict
New to America, this young Vietnamese refugee wanted to ‘erase’ his past