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According to the scholar Daryl J. Maeda, Asian American veterans reported being humiliated and dehumanized by their fellow GIs as “gooks” while their supposed enemies, the Vietnamese, often identified them as their own. In the 1977 play Honey Bucket by Melvyn Escueta, an old Vietnamese woman touches the black hair of an American soldier named Andy.
... See moreCathy Park Hong • Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
You are a good student, as all Orientals are. Despite myself, I felt a small surge of pride. Like all good students, I yearned for nothing but approval, even from fools.
Viet Thanh Nguyen • The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
I found the Vietnamese in America both intimate and alien, but Vietnam itself was simply alien.
Viet Thanh Nguyen • The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
