Helen Little

Agent Smith: Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings

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“the Vietnamese refugee’s narrative in the United States has been rewritten so that American responsibility for its failures in Southeast Asia is forgotten in favor of remembering how Americans rescued Vietnamese refugees at war’s end”

In Buddhism, the seven factors of awakening (Pali: satta bojjha ṅ gā or satta sambojjha ṅ gā ; Skt.: sapta bodhyanga ) are:

• Mindfulness ( sati , Sanskrit smṛti ). To maintain awareness of reality, in particular the teachings ( Dhamma ).


• Investigation of the nature of reality ( dhamma vicaya , Skt. dharmapravicaya ).


• Energy ( viriya , Skt. vīrya )

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Over time, a skewed portrayal of historical narratives began to affect the psyche of Americans and Vietnamese alike through what is commonly known as intellectual imperialism . Syed Hussein Alatas states that imperialism can come not only in the form of political and economic policies, but also as an intellectual position that dominates a group of... See more

To promote historical amnesia, the United States demands conformity as a prerequisite for integration

Original enlightenment or innate awakening (Chinese: 本覺; pinyin: běnjué ; Japanese pronunciation: hongaku ; Korean pronunciation: bongak ; Vietnamese: bản giác ) is an East Asian Buddhist doctrine often translated as "inherent", "innate", "intrinsic" or "original" awakeness.[2]

This doctrine holds all sentient beings are already enlightened or... See more

Even when I know something to be true as bone I fear the knowledge will dissolve, will not, despite my writing it, stay real” (Vuong 62). To generations before him whose stories were buried and untold, Little Dog says, “Sometimes you are erased before you are given the choice of stating who you are”

Little Dog begins assembling his life story through his remaining connections to Vietnam: Rose and Lan. The stories that they pass down to him are not the linear, homogenized, or patriotic version of history taught in American schools because their memories are “broken by war, occupation, and displacement. Asian American culture ‘re-members’ the... See more