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What is Gained So, um, I actually went to UCLA and I studied chemical engineering because for me what really mattered was getting my parents out of poverty, and I looked at this engineering major and chemical engineering had the highest salary so that seemed to be the most practical major at the time. I decided to work for a defense company which is Northrop Grumman because I felt like “I want a way to pay back my country,” and because I really felt like, you know, I won’t be any good, you know, in terms of serving my country, whether in the military or the air force, but I could actually use my engineering skills to create one of the top system, you know, to help, you know, soldiers on the ground to fight, you know, in the war. I think the positive thing, I think, to really come out, [being a refugee] taught me mental stamina, so I felt like I have lived through worse, so I naturally willing to, you know, take more risks in my career. Other than the mental stamina, in terms of my career…So I love both David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell, I don’t know if you guys have had a chance to read that. So basically, he talks about how people that actually come to a disadvantaged family or single parent family are actually, are very successful in their life. There’s like a higher percent of them being successful, because they are put into challenges that they have to solve, all from a very young age. So, so the thing is that there is actually a lot of struggle with a really wealthy family because how do you raise your children and give them the same struggle and develop the same skillset versus somebody that comes from a disadvantaged family. So I think that was a very good point from this book and I just want to point that out.
Object Description
Profile of | Linh Dang |
Title | Sprouting from Ashes: The Journey of Linh Dang |
Profile bio | Linh Dang was born in Viet Nam after the fall of Saigon in 1975. As a wealthy Chinese family, Dang and her parents were targeted by the Communist government. After spending time in a re-education camp, Dang's parents were able to bribe their out, back into the city of Saigon, where their family lived in hiding for the next 10 years. With the help of an uncle, Dang's family was eventually able to emigrate to the United States. Dang entered formal schooling for the first time in middle school, knowing very little English, and went on to complete a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). She later continued her education at UCLA, earning Master's degrees in both Materials Engineering and Management. Dang is now the Engineering Program Manager for the Electronics and Payload division at the Northrop Grumman Corporation. As a highly accomplished engineer managing multi-million dollar projects, she won the 2014 Asian American Engineer of the Year Award. This is her Viet Nam War story. |
Profiler bio | Maria Bacci is a sophomore studying Chemical Engineering at the University of Southern California.; Juan Martinez and Elise Shea are juniors studying Civil Engineering (Building Science). Together, they worked to profile the experiences of Linh Dang in the context of the American War in Viet Nam. |
Subject |
American Chinese Civilian Communism Fall of Saigon Profile Re-education camp Refugee Saigon Viet Nam Vietnamese |
Profiled by | Bacci, Maria; Martinez, Juan; Shea, Elise |
Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Saigon; Ho Chi Minh City; Los Angeles |
Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
Geographic subject (state) | California |
Geographic subject (country) | Vietnam; USA |
Coverage date | 1975 |
Publisher (of the original version) | http://anotherwarmemorial.com/linh-dang/ |
Type |
images video |
Format | 1 image; 5 video files (00:16:03); 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 | danglinh |
Description
Profile of | Linh Dang |
Title | What is Gained |
Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
Filename | danglinh-vid3_tr3.pdf |
Full text | What is Gained So, um, I actually went to UCLA and I studied chemical engineering because for me what really mattered was getting my parents out of poverty, and I looked at this engineering major and chemical engineering had the highest salary so that seemed to be the most practical major at the time. I decided to work for a defense company which is Northrop Grumman because I felt like “I want a way to pay back my country,” and because I really felt like, you know, I won’t be any good, you know, in terms of serving my country, whether in the military or the air force, but I could actually use my engineering skills to create one of the top system, you know, to help, you know, soldiers on the ground to fight, you know, in the war. I think the positive thing, I think, to really come out, [being a refugee] taught me mental stamina, so I felt like I have lived through worse, so I naturally willing to, you know, take more risks in my career. Other than the mental stamina, in terms of my career…So I love both David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell, I don’t know if you guys have had a chance to read that. So basically, he talks about how people that actually come to a disadvantaged family or single parent family are actually, are very successful in their life. There’s like a higher percent of them being successful, because they are put into challenges that they have to solve, all from a very young age. So, so the thing is that there is actually a lot of struggle with a really wealthy family because how do you raise your children and give them the same struggle and develop the same skillset versus somebody that comes from a disadvantaged family. So I think that was a very good point from this book and I just want to point that out. |
Archival file | Volume3/danglinh-vid3_tr3.pdf |