Jaselle
Abuda
Professor
Valverde
ASA
189F
18
November 2017
Question: Sometimes in branding, there is a cover-up
to promote untruths. What are these lies or untruths in the Viet Nam case and
how is it applied to your own research project?
The lies or untruths in the Viet Nam case is
how America’s approach in legal and humanitarian compensations to those
families who are affected by the nuclear war herbicide, Agent Orange, in hopes
of reclaiming America. However, compensations are unequally distributed
throughout the Vietnamese diaspora, as programs are mostly focused on
Vietnamese Americans within the U.S. rather than the country of Viet Nam
itself. As mentioned, “The programme extends only to those who have partially
or totally lost the ability to work, children who have suffered deformities,
and those who are not already claiming state benefits” (Palmer 7). Not only
does America’s form of compensation lacks the aid the Vietnamese diaspora
needs, but it neglects the fact that what they did was a warm crime. How it may
be applied to our own research project is that legal reforms and the
marginalization of Asian Americans may obscure statistical data of the whole
Asian diaspora throughout the United States. The common marginalization of
Asian Americans and the Asian diaspora as being the most successful and
well-assimilated ethnic minority group in the United States perpetuates the
Model Minority myth and normalizes the obscurities and anti-Asian sentiment.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2017/09/28/agent-orange-is-still-causing-deformities-in-vietnams-babies/
Question:
In the article, it was acknowledged that Agent Orange was a war crime, but why doesn’t
Viet Nam propose and accuse America of being a terrorist as it seeks to “compensate”
for their damages?
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