Posted on 09/10/2005 6:36:51 AM PDT by angkor
How dare they be self reliant and solve their own problems.
As mentioned above, the Chronic's major source for this article (and headline) is Boat People S.O.S., which is a federally funded organization, not a VN community organization.
I looked into volunteering for Boat People S.O.S. some time ago, to no avail. They've got federal $$$, they're all set, thank you very much.
I won't say more about their leadership, it's your typical government-sponsored "helping" organization. Meaning politically correct and "inclusive" in all aspects of that term. The Vietnamese who don't find succor in the Vietnamese community.
You're right, it's culture related.
The culture of entitlement versus the culture of self-sufficiency.
They are hard working and intelligent people, they have had to endure a lot of hardhips and yet they emerged stronger Americans.
Heck, the other evacuees in Houston think they're idiots.
What they have in America is what they wanted for the Republic of South Vietnam.
The rest of America was like that once. Otherwise, this country wouldn't be here now. And, a lot of us still are, but the self-sufficient seldom get the headlines.
"Heck, the other evacuees in Houston think they're idiots."Geez... You don't know what to laugh or cry here!!!
Time to cry friend...the Entitlement mentality is firmly entrenched in the psyche's of our urban classes.
The first sentence of this "article" says it all.
The liberals are having dry heaves that people can take care of themselves.
That's the truth, doesn't sell newspapers.
Course seems that lately all MSM spews out are lib agenda's.
(sidenote, wish this board had an edit/delete feature)
I don't think they really care too much. They'll succeed once again, the third time around for many (e.g., leaving North Vietnam, leaving South Vietnam, now leaving Katrina).
People have no idea how tough and persistent the Vietnamese are. Personally I find them mind-boggling.
Actually, it does. You have my permission to delete my posts to you.
Send some of them to Northeast Texas. There is a good business opportunity here: we haven't been able to find a good Vietnamese or Thai reataurant within 100 miles of Atlanta, TX.
I meant that the totally Gov't-dependent evacuees think the Viet's are idiots.
Boat People S.O.S. is a federally-funded Vietnamese "community" organization (NOT).
And, yes, it therefore embraces the liberal and PC values which aren't generally representative of the Vietnamese-American community.
Yes, understood from your initial post.
With the evacs and related destruction of the Gulf shrimping industry, you should be seeing one soon :)
They really went after the "man"...
Bwahahhahahahaha... African-Americans must be so proud of the leadership they've chosen .....they sure don't want to get uppity like Clarence Thomas, Condeleeza Rice, or Colin Powell.... or they'll get slammed for "acting white".
Nope, better to eat off the Democratic masters table scraps and keep your head down, play the legal 'race card" to shakedown somebody for money. Cause if you open a business, work hard for a living or join the Armed Forces you're just "acting white" and not "fighting the powers that be!".
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