We have a large Vietnamese community here. They don’t feel sorry for themselves, they don’t whine, they don’t demand the world bow down to them, they excel at all they do.
I respect them. They are good, solid conservative folks. About half the community is Buddhist and the rest are Catholic.
With the history of this segment of our population so fresh, it is a lesson to other longtime minorities to get with the program; assimilate, work within the system to succeed.
Congratulations Congressman Cao!
I hope he does a good job.
Islander7 wrote -
“We have a large Vietnamese community here. They don’t feel sorry for themselves, they don’t whine, they don’t demand the world bow down to them, they excel at all they do.
I respect them. They are good, solid conservative folks. About half the community is Buddhist and the rest are Catholic.
With the history of this segment of our population so fresh, it is a lesson to other longtime minorities to get with the program; assimilate, work within the system to succeed.”
..... I won’t name any names or places, but my cousin was at one time pretty highly placed in Democratic state government in the NE [1980’s]. He related a story to me of a private lunch conversation he had with a local NAACP leader. This fellow articulated some real embarrassment and concern about the fact that refugees from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam - many of whom had [like the Hmong] came from primitive jungle societies and spoke no English at all, had managed as a social group in a single generation to reach economic and professional levels that his people had been unable to achieve over several decades despite every possible assistance and preference being accorded to them by government.
Thre’s a lesson in there.
Don’t forget they like to build on every square inch of their property, deal with their own problems their own way, and love backyard gardens. I worked the area for years and probably went to dang near every house in Michoud.
Well said!
And Congratulations indeed to Congressman Cao!
Well if half are Catholic the rest will be within a generation or two. The marriage/children rule of the RC Church works wonders in that case.