October 2011
14 posts
can't sway
my body
refuses to
sway
when
viet nam’s
rhythmic music
exuberates
the room.
so instead,
i move to
breakbeats
hip hop
deep house
dupstep
dance to
rhythm of
american culture
but encrypt
on the floors
stories of
motherland.
— submitted by em(ily)
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If I broke my parents' hearts all those years ago, I did so with a broken heart of my own.
Submitted by J.H.
“Martin Luther King was repeatedly betrayed by liberal supporters, especially when he began to challenge economic forms of discrimination, which demanded that liberals, rather than simply white Southern racists, begin to make sacrifices. King too was a radical. He would not compromise on nonviolence, racism or justice. He understood that movements—such as the Liberty Party, which fought slavery, the suffragists, who fought for women’s rights, the labor movement and the civil rights movement—have always been the true correctives in American democracy. None of those movements achieved formal political power. But by holding fast to moral imperatives they made the powerful fear them. King knew that racial equality was impossible without economic justice and an end to militarism. And he had no intention of ceding to the demands of the liberal establishment that called on him to be calm and patience. “For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there,” King said shortly before he was assassinated. “Now I feel quite differently. I think you’ve got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values.”
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— submitted proletarianengineer
Where are my Cambodians at?
I get mistaken for..
Phillipino
Mexican
Thai/Black (I was quite surprised when I heard this)
But people can never get to Cambodian! Nothing wrong with being mistaken, because they are all sexy :3! It just makes me really think though. I am amazed when people say “You are the first Cambodian I have ever met.” In the back of my head, I am like really? Foreals, you must be kidding! But, the thing is, they are not kidding and its 100% the truth.
Now I sit and think, and I think really hard. I ask myself, “Where are my Cambodians at?” I was never able to find the answer until I came to Berkeley. I also wondered why there were so vietnamese people and no Cambodians. Now I finally can understand why.
We went through hella shit when the Khmer Rouge rose to power in Cambodia. Many lives were lost, people lost their family, friends, and technically everything they had. Many suffer PTSD and so much more. What I think is we lost was our faith, love, community, and our leaders/role models.
We lost our educated people. People that could have potentially mobilized our community and people who could have saved ourselves from each other. No one was there to empower us. Our parents, grandparents, and etc came from a tragic event. I feel that many of us are at a lost, because we don’t have guidance. America was not the most loving place for refugees, but I am thankful because I am here and we are all here. However, I just don’t see enough of us in higher education or being productive with what we have and it breaks my heart.
I want to shed light onto my community and I will. For that to happen, I need to become a somebody. As of now, I am a nobody. A 2nd year student at the University of California, Berkeley, it doesn’t mean much, but I hope it will in time. I don’t like to see my community struggle and get nowhere.
We are warriors and we have it in our blood. Our families struggled and fought for their lives to get here. Now we must prove to everyone that we will do something and make our world a better place for ourself and others. It will be tough, but it is possible. If our parents can escape unbelievable odds so can we.
I know that gangs and violence have been prominent in our community. I am no longer angry at that fact, but I am heart-broken. Heart-broken that I understand the history of it and how it transformed over time. Heart-broken that it tears down our community. We are effected by gambling, drinking, and so much more. I hope that we can rebuild ourselves and love ourselves.
I see so much pride and unity in the Mexican and Philippine community. I do not see enough of that in the Cambodian community. I see a broken community that WILL be fixed. We just need to come together, realize all the good shit we can do, and do that SHIT!
We need to show this “Pull yourself up from the bootstraps” concept who is the BOSS. I strongly dislike how society is, but we can play by the rules and show them who is BOSS. We are all BOSSES! We have control over our life and can make it better. NOW SHOW EVERYBODY, that you are BOSS.
I Love My Cambodian Community and I Love The World,
Sevly Snguon
Asian Pacific Islander/Vietnamese American Scholarships →
cayda.org
What up lovely Southeast Asian community! Here’s some scholarship resources for you all!
Best,
Kenny Hoang
Yo Asian Pacific Islander and Vietnamese students in the house, check out these scholarships and follow through!
I’m surprised no one has compiled the various Vietnamese American scholarships out there. I guess I gotta do it. Please let me know if you find others! The most up-to-date list will be on the CayDa website. The Asian American Women’s Alliance is run by an all-Vietnamese board, by the way. Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund is just in there because people wanted me to promote it, but I don’t really want to compile an Asian American scholarship list because there are plenty of groups that already do that.
- Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund
- Vietnamese American Armed Forces Association Fallen Heroes Scholarship
- Vietnamese American Bar Association of Southern California Scholarship
- Vietnamese American Bar Association of the Greater Washington, DC Area Scholarship
- Vietnamese American Dreams Scholarship
- Vietnamese American Medical Association Scholarship
- Vietnamese American Scholarship Foundation
- Danny T. Le Memorial Scholarship
- Lê Hoàng Nguyên College Scholarship
- Thuy Nguyen Scholarship
- Vera Tran Memorial Scholarship
- Vietnamese Culture & Science Association Scholarship
Normal kids rebel by doing drugs, drinking, getting a tattoo, etc.
Asian kids rebel by going into social sciences and the humanities.
Southeast Asian American Education 35 Years After Initial Resettlement: Research Report and Policy Recommendations
Southeast Asian refugees first began arriving in the United States over 35 years ago, having escaped war, oppression, or genocide in their home countries. Resettling in a new country posed many challenges, but Southeast Asian refugees proved to be resilient as they settled in and began a new life.
What progress has been made over the past 35 years since initial refugee resettlement? What challenges remain, and what new challenges have emerged? What are the implications of these successes and challenges for educational policy?
To explore these issues, the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans (NAFEA) held an Education Conference in Washington DC on October 22 – 23, 2010 to review the progress made since initial Southeast Asian (SEA) refugee resettlement. The theme of the conference was Southeast Asian American Education: 35 Years of Research, Leadership, and Advocacy. The primary purpose of this conference was to collect and report data across the following four themes, and to make specific policy recommendations:
- Southeast Asian American K–12 Education
- Southeast Asian American Heritage Language Education
- Southeast Asian American Higher Education
- Southeast Asian American Communities
— submitted by baohouse
Southeast Asian American Education 35 Years After Initial Resettlement: Research Report and Policy Recommendations →
jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu
Conference Report of the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans.
Southeast Asian refugees first began arriving in the United States over 35 years ago, having escaped war, oppression, or genocide in their home countries. Resettling in a new country posed many challenges, but Southeast Asian refugees proved to be resilient as they settled in and began a new life.
What progress has been made over the past 35 years since initial refugee resettlement? What challenges remain, and what new challenges have emerged? What are the implications of these successes and challenges for educational policy?
To explore these issues, the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans (NAFEA) held an Education Conference in Washington DC on October 22 – 23, 2010 to review the progress made since initial Southeast Asian (SEA) refugee resettlement. The theme of the conference was Southeast Asian American Education: 35 Years of Research, Leadership, and Advocacy. The primary purpose of this conference was to collect and report data across the following four themes, and to make specific policy recommendations:
- Southeast Asian American K–12 Education
- Southeast Asian American Heritage Language Education
- Southeast Asian American Higher Education
- Southeast Asian American Communities
This research report is not only something worth looking at, but this report is also a testimony that within the Southeast Asian Community, our struggles, our stories—they are valid.
SASC<3,
Kenny Hoang
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P.S. If you all don’t know yet, this blog, ‘The Green Tumblr’ is open to the greater Southeast Asian Community all across the United States. The Green Tumblr focuses “on the identity, hystory, and issues of Southeast Asians with a goal to build an online venue that engages our SEA community as well as foster voices within our community”
So go to our blog http://thegreenpapaya.tumblr.com/ and click on our ‘How to Submit’ button on the right hand side to start posting up things you’d like to share!
Follow us, Reblog us, Submit and Share to us, Love us.
2011 Care Report - Research Prevalent to the API Communities
The 2011 CARE Report is a research report that holds data on Asian Pacific Islander Americans in relationships with higher education. The report is very important to the Asian Pacific Islander (API) community as it contains relevant information that reveals tangible numbers to educate our communities and other communities about the issues the API community faces and that we still have struggles that shouldn’t be dismissed let alone overlooked. When you do have the time, open this sheiz up; it will surprise you.
“The 2011 CARE Report was released this week by the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE), in partnership with the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF). The new report provides critical information on the need for equity and diversity in the college completion agenda. Data also reveals that AAPIs have a wide variation in college participation and degree attainment that includes some subgroups (out of 48 ethnicities in the AAPI community) being more likely to attend community colleges and less selective institutions-resulting in significant differences in degree attainment rates within the AAPI student population.”
You can download the CARE Report at the following link:
2011 CARE Report Link
SASC<3,
Kenny
Greater Times - Nah ft Mondega
Wanted to share the love. Today I found this song by Nah and was blown away by his messages regarding unity and connected struggle with Viet folks in America and Viet folks in Viet Nam.
Check out this diaCRITICS interview with MC Nah.
JH: In what ways do you think hip-hop is a fruitful medium for expressing issues in the Vietnamese communities?
NN: Hip-hop is straight forward and real, it goes to the heart of young people. The youth tends to look up to and believe in their favorite artists. Therefore, rappers can use their music to get the message across, without being preachy or corny. Here in Vietnam, we are changing these young minds with music. Conscious emcees are addressing issues such as drug abuse, prostitution, inflation, social conflicts, love, gang fights, war… in their music, in a positive way.
Talk about things that life up my day and give me hope, damn.
— submitted by lngo2
