Viet Thanh Nguyen in Podcasts
personA person who is a Vietnamese refugee and author.
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Book banned in communist Vietnam because that means it spoke the truth and the truth is what matters.
You can have the Pulitzer Prize or you can have your book banned in Vietnam by the communist government.
They apparently did not read more than 10 pages of The Sympathizer because the novel was actually banned in Vietnam by the communist government.
I literally get messages from people saying, since you love the commies so much, go back to Vietnam.
So, you know, you as a Vietnamese refugee, or we as Vietnamese refugees could say, well, we're better than the Haitians, whether we thought that explicitly or not, that's the message that's being sent out.
Well, you know, Vietnamese people, when we came, the majority of the American people did not want to accept Vietnamese and other Southeast Asian refugees.
There were a lot of bad Vietnamese refugees doing terrible things, okay?
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