Vietnamese Immigration

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Problems encountered with survival in U.S. culture for Vietnamese Buddhists. Buddhist spiritual and religious beliefs. The Four Noble Truths. Contrasts Buddhism in Vietnam and the U.S. Social services role of U.S. temples. Issues of economic challenges vs. religious values, acculturation, secular education, employment. Decentralization of religious traditions.

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"When Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese in 1975, the first wave of Vietnamese immigrants to the US consisted mainly of the residue of South Vietnam's elite bureaucracy, chiefly political in their orientation. The second wave, coming 1979 and the early 1980s, comprised what were called boat people, refugees from the North Vietnamese communist crackdown against disloyal citizens and a war with the People's Republic of China, and settling in a variety of locales around the country. The second wave of Vietnamese immigrants proved to be more entrepreneurial in focus. Indeed, the determination of South Vietnamese immigrants and their families to find a way to make money in the US put them in sometimes dangerous competition with established American businesses; indeed, American hostility to Vietnamese shrimpers at the Texas Gulf sometimes spilled over into ..."

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