Quotes by Nguyen Viet Thang

Nguyen Viet Thang

40, 50 years ago, Americans – the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as completely foreign. Now there are new foreigners – Syrians and other people from the Middle East, people of Muslim backgrounds. And the sense among many Americans is, well, these people are completely different from us, and they’re not like the Vietnamese who are much more assimilable. And I think that’s very, very doubtful. I think that the majority of these new foreigners, if given the opportunity, will be able to assimilate and deal with American culture.

Opportunity

Thinking

Years

By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don’t think I had the discipline or the patience – or the ability or the humility. It took 20 years to acquire those things.

College

Humility

Thinking

Every new refugee to a society, whether it’s the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

Outsiders

Population

United States

Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms of broadcasting a particular vision of what the American experience was like. As someone coming from a war that was a preoccupation of Americans in the 1980s, it did strike me that since we were a part of that war, we should have a chance to talk about ourselves.

Growing Up

Media

War

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

Hollywood

Ministry

Way

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious – a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

Pretentious

Titles

I think all immigrants and refugees are preoccupied with memories to one degree or another. But again, this question of how much to remember and how much to forget is really aggravated for those who have lost a tremendous amount.

Degrees

Memories

Thinking

I think my parents’ lives are worthy of writing about. I don’t think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

Parent

Thinking

Writing

I’ve never stopped being a refugee.

Refugee

If you’re a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority… I refuse to do that.

Minorities

Temptation

Writing

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Humility

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Iraq

Majority

Media

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Ministry

Minorities

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New Year

Numbers

Opportunity

Outsiders

Parent

Past

People

Perspective

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Refugee

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Remember

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Quotes by Nguyen Viet Thang

Nguyen Viet Thang

By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don’t think I had the discipline or the patience – or the ability or the humility. It took 20 years to acquire those things.

Every new refugee to a society, whether it’s the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious – a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

I think all immigrants and refugees are preoccupied with memories to one degree or another. But again, this question of how much to remember and how much to forget is really aggravated for those who have lost a tremendous amount.

I think my parents’ lives are worthy of writing about. I don’t think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

I’ve never stopped being a refugee.

If you’re a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority… I refuse to do that.

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