HUMAN 1CS Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vietnamese Americans, Militarism, Orange County Register
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Conducting interviews: get historical context, ask questions on smell, weather. Southeast asian archive: documenting the histories of cambodian, hmong, and vietnamese diasporic com- munities. Vietnam is not a war : also a country, people, culture. 1975 evacuees: the boat people experience, resettlement & secondary migrations, determining agency over where they want to live, spread over country, transforming orange county, outside of vietnam, oc has largest vietnamese popu- lation. Narrative: bad thing that happened to vietnamese but happy to be in america. Belongs in the past, let it go. Us militarism in southeast asia: 1954 partition. Boat people: southeast asian exodus, millions left this way. Lesser known are the southeast asian lives. 2 million cambodians at hands of the khmer rouge (communist followers in cambo- dia) Unexploded ordnances (uxo) have killed 20,000 people in laos since the bombings. Many families had to escape 8-10 times, a crime, many would go to prison and have a criminal record.
