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Academic Papers Jnifar Gillur Yumi sociology

The Obscureness of the Meaning of Home and Identity

When we travel or live abroad, we are closely observed by the people in those places, just as we learn from and adapt to their cultures. Over this course of time when we are abroad, we often come across the question: what is home? For 1.5 or second-generation migrants, they are often asked, “where are you from?” or “where are you from, really?”

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Academic Papers Nguyen Kieu An sociology War

Narratives of a South Vietnamese Father and a Laotian Mother: On Memories of War and Transnational Perspectives of Life 

Vietnam war has been one of the most destructive wars in history. Yet, “so much is told about Vietnam, and so little is understood” amid a “skipping over” of the Vietnam War through an organized and strategic forgetting of a war that “went wrong”  by America’s self-appointed role as liberators.