Thinking Quotes by Nguyen Viet Thang

Nguyen Viet Thang

40, 50 years ago, Americans – the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as completely foreign. Now there are new foreigners – Syrians and other people from the Middle East, people of Muslim backgrounds. And the sense among many Americans is, well, these people are completely different from us, and they’re not like the Vietnamese who are much more assimilable. And I think that’s very, very doubtful. I think that the majority of these new foreigners, if given the opportunity, will be able to assimilate and deal with American culture.

Opportunity

Thinking

Years

Nguyen Viet Thang

By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don’t think I had the discipline or the patience – or the ability or the humility. It took 20 years to acquire those things.

College

Humility

Thinking

Nguyen Viet Thang

I think all immigrants and refugees are preoccupied with memories to one degree or another. But again, this question of how much to remember and how much to forget is really aggravated for those who have lost a tremendous amount.

Degrees

Memories

Thinking

Nguyen Viet Thang

I think my parents’ lives are worthy of writing about. I don’t think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

Parent

Thinking

Writing

Nguyen Viet Thang

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

Fire

Thinking

War

Nguyen Viet Thang

The refugees are not only going to be a demand on the country’s resources, but also the refugees raise the possibility that the countries that they’re going to are themselves not as stable as the citizens would like, I think. We’re all just one catastrophe away from ending up as a refugee, and we don’t want to be reminded of that.

Country

Demand

Thinking

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Acceptance

Awful

Believe

Children

College

Country

Decision

Degrees

Demand

Different Faces

Dream

Fire

Firsts

Fleeing

Growing Up

Hollywood

Home

Humility

Identity

Iraq

Majority

Media

Memories

Ministry

Minorities

Needs

New Year

Numbers

Opportunity

Outsiders

Parent

Past

People

Perspective

Population

Powerful

Pretentious

Refugee

Rejection

Remember

Son

Taken

Talking

Temptation

Thinking

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United States

Want

War

Way

World

Writing

Years

Thinking Quotes by Nguyen Viet Thang

By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don’t think I had the discipline or the patience – or the ability or the humility. It took 20 years to acquire those things.

I think all immigrants and refugees are preoccupied with memories to one degree or another. But again, this question of how much to remember and how much to forget is really aggravated for those who have lost a tremendous amount.

I think my parents’ lives are worthy of writing about. I don’t think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

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