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Q: Could you tell us your name?
ST: My name is Stephanie Truong, my real name is Thy, I am a Vietnamese.
Q: So what year did your parents come here? Did they immigrant?
ST: Yeah, they immigrated to America, I am not sure the exact year, because they came a couple years apart, but my mother came when she was 14 years old, and my dad came here a little bit older when he was 16 or 17…in early 70s, right after the war started.
Q: What part of Vietnam did your parents live?
ST: My mom was from the city and my dad was from a village, but they were both in the southern Vietnam.
Q: How about the environments? Have they told you the environment they lived in?
ST: My dad lived in this really rural village near the coast. There were couple hundred people. He lived in a really poor neighborhood that only has one school. He was the best in his class, which is why he was selected to go the college in Saigon, the university there. He was always pretty smart so when he got to America, it was easy for him to work and go to school. And my mom was… My grandparents were the local principal and teacher at school. You know, being a teacher has benefits. They are pretty well off: they had their own sizable piece of land; my mom has 5 brothers and sisters, and they all each have their own maid; they would have a bunch of dogs and they had a farm with chickens, pigs, ducks, and stuff like that. So my dad was in a pretty poor part of Vietnam, while my mom was in a richer area.
Q: Do they still have families over there?
ST: I know that my father does, he has a lot of family in Vietnam, actually. His mom is still there, his dad was also there, but he passed away several years ago. Some of his brothers still live there, but I would say most of them come here. He had 10 brothers and sisters, and 6 or 7 are over here now. And all of my mom’s family is in America.
Q: Have they gone back to visit? ST: My mom? No. She doesn’t. She doesn’t have good experience with it. But my dad, since he has family, he has visited, but he hasn’t in a really long time.
Object Description
| Profile of | Stephanie Truong |
| Title | What My Parents Saw |
| Profile bio | Stephanie Truong is a junior student currently attending the USC School of Architecture. She is an American-Vietnamese second-generation daughter of two Vietnamese war refugees who found their way out of Vietnam in the early 70’s when they were in their teens. Her mother was born in the city while her dad was from a village, both of them from South Vietnam. Stephanie explained how her parents escaped from Vietnam. Her mother boarded a ship to Thailand and was in a camp there while her dad escaped in a fish boat in the middle of the night. He spent 2 weeks in the boat and struggled for food and water and saw people died. He ended up his journey in a refugee camp in Thailand as well. Both of her parents were sponsored by families who helped them come to America. They settled their new life in the United States and years later Stephanie was born. Stephanie is a great example because as a second-generation child she recognizes the sacrifice that her parents did to escape the war that could have cost their lives if they stayed in Vietnam. She feels proud of them and as an American-Vietnamese she wants to share her parents' experiences with future generations as well as her personal perspective towards the war and how it was taught to her in American schools. |
| Profiler bio | Andrew Herrera was born in East Los Angeles, CA. He went to East Los Angeles Community College, and transfer to USC in 2012. He currently majors in Architecture. Difan Feng was born in Beijing, China, where he continued to live until 2008. He came to the US afterward for college. He was an economics major and changed to architecture after his first year. Iliana Michelle Lopez was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador. She moved to California in 2003. She studied architecture in East Los Angeles Community College and transferred to USC in 2012. |
| Subject |
refugee camp Vietnam war sponsorship culture shock culture 2nd generation |
| Profiled by | Herrera, Andrew; Feng, Difan; Lopez, Iliana |
| Profile date | 2014-04-01 |
| Geographic subject (state) | Minnesota |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA; Vietnam; Thailand |
| Coverage date | 1970-1979 |
| Publisher (of the original version) | http://anotherwarmemorial.com/stephanie-truong/ |
| Type |
images video |
| Format | 1 image; 5 video files (00:17:43); 5 transcripts |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam |
| Filename | truongstephanie |
Description
| Profile of | Stephanie Truong |
| Title | Background |
| Format | 1 transcript, 2p. |
| Filename | truongstephanie-vid1_tr1.pdf |
| Full text | Background Q: Could you tell us your name? ST: My name is Stephanie Truong, my real name is Thy, I am a Vietnamese. Q: So what year did your parents come here? Did they immigrant? ST: Yeah, they immigrated to America, I am not sure the exact year, because they came a couple years apart, but my mother came when she was 14 years old, and my dad came here a little bit older when he was 16 or 17…in early 70s, right after the war started. Q: What part of Vietnam did your parents live? ST: My mom was from the city and my dad was from a village, but they were both in the southern Vietnam. Q: How about the environments? Have they told you the environment they lived in? ST: My dad lived in this really rural village near the coast. There were couple hundred people. He lived in a really poor neighborhood that only has one school. He was the best in his class, which is why he was selected to go the college in Saigon, the university there. He was always pretty smart so when he got to America, it was easy for him to work and go to school. And my mom was… My grandparents were the local principal and teacher at school. You know, being a teacher has benefits. They are pretty well off: they had their own sizable piece of land; my mom has 5 brothers and sisters, and they all each have their own maid; they would have a bunch of dogs and they had a farm with chickens, pigs, ducks, and stuff like that. So my dad was in a pretty poor part of Vietnam, while my mom was in a richer area. Q: Do they still have families over there? ST: I know that my father does, he has a lot of family in Vietnam, actually. His mom is still there, his dad was also there, but he passed away several years ago. Some of his brothers still live there, but I would say most of them come here. He had 10 brothers and sisters, and 6 or 7 are over here now. And all of my mom’s family is in America. Q: Have they gone back to visit? ST: My mom? No. She doesn’t. She doesn’t have good experience with it. But my dad, since he has family, he has visited, but he hasn’t in a really long time. |
| Archival file | Volume3/truongstephanie-vid1_tr1.pdf |
