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Culture of abhorrent: how ultra-racist and radical opinions from the Vietnamese Americans ensured their failure to bring a democratic environment to Vietnam and downgrading sympathy to Vietnamese abroad?

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I grew up being Vietnamese, and I have a divisive family. A father who is a fervent anti-communist but drunk and violent, and a mother who herself is a high-ranking official working as a judge in a State Court in Hanoi, a caring woman but arrogant. Being born in such a unique family of a communist mother and an anti-communist father shaped my experience with both anti-communist Vietnamese and the pro-communist Vietnamese, and this made me have a clearer insight into the communist party that has reigned Vietnam ever since the Fall of Saigon in 1975, and the vast majority of Vietnamese abroad who are 80%, anti-communist. I don't think I am a bridge, but circumstances made me so. For me, I am always interested to see the opinions of Vietnamese Americans, the largest Vietnamese diaspora in the world. The history of Vietnamese immigration to the U.S. is just a recent contemporary one, yet pretty much connected to the tragic history of Vietnamese people. The Vietnam War, began from 1956-...