Vietnamese America: On ‘Good Refugees’, Fake News, and Historical Amnesia
by Vo, B. G
Vietnamese Americans are at a crossroads: the rise of mainstream misinformation and pro-Trump sentiment in their communities is not a historical aberration, yet attempts to explain it draw exclusively upon the good refugee narrative and fail to interrogate the legacy of imperialism and liberalism that all Americans inherit.
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