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The Influence Growing Up
Q: How were you directly affected by the war in terms of childhood and education?
Because my parents were involved in the war, my upbringing was different. There was a lot of value put into education. Just working really hard, just in anything you do, not just education. Everything you do, you have to do it your best, give it your all. Even if it’s not perfect, as long as you put your all into it. I see my parents working and just them being themselves. I’m just like, “I wish to be at least half of that.”
So I stay up all the nights. Even though it’s hard, I’m just like, “My parents have done that for me.” It just puts everything into perspective. Sometimes I’ll complain about my homework to my mom. But from her perspective that’s ridiculous. She’s like, “You know in Vietnam; people don’t have the freedom to have whatever education they want. If you were in Vietnam, you would have to be selling lottery tickets and you wouldn’t even have enough for a meal.” And I’m just like, “Wow mom way to make me feel horrible.” But it teaches me a lot.
Sometimes it’s really hard for us to understand each other. Because I’m going into arts, I’m doing music. Because in Vietnam that’s not really a thing. You don’t really make a living out of that. Even here it’s pretty hard. All they want from me is to survive. They have a very strong survival mentality. And in a sense, our family is kind of crazy. We, I mean, they had a very crazy history. We just worked to unreasonable extent. That’s how it affected my life.
Q: How has the war affected your parents?
It’s very difficult for my parents to understand, “following your dreams” is a thing, they really have a survival mentality. So it’s like, “Get a job,” “Get a great family,” “Feed your kids.” It’s exactly what they did for me, so they expect me to do those same things. Except this time, I’ll have more opportunity. But growing up in America, I’ll have this horrible advantage. In a sense to them it’s kind of spoiled, where I’m just like “I want to follow my dreams and this is what I’m good at and I feel like this is what god has called me to do.” It’s very hard for them to understand that I don’t have to choose between music and stability. I could do both.
Object Description
| Profile of | Angela Ho |
| Title | Story from a Refugee Family's Daughter |
| Profile bio | Angela Thanh Ho is a current student at the University of Southern California. She is Fine Arts major with a huge love for music. Currently, she is in her junior year at USC and plans on taking a gap year to focus on her music goals. In just a short amount of time, this uniquely talented college student has started to make a name for herself with the release of her new single Ocean Blue. |
| Profiler bio | Paul Mun is a sophomore at the University of Southern California, pursuing a bachelor's degree in International Relations/ Global Business with a minor in Business Finance. He plans to focus his studies on Corporate Partnership, Marketing, Business Development, Project Development, or Consulting.; Jakellene Palacios is currently attending the University of Southern California. Jakellene is a Human Biology major with a minor in forensics in criminality. She wants to pursue a career in medicine with hopes of becoming a Physician’s assistant.; Andrew Falkenberg is a sophomore at USC studying Human Biology with an emphasis in Human Movement. He hopes to become a physical therapist with his degree. |
| Subject |
2nd generation Boat people Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Profile Viet Nam |
| Profiled by | Mun, Paul; Falkenberg, Andrew; Palacios, Jakellene |
| Profile date | 2016-04-08 |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1995 |
| Publisher (of the original version) | http://anotherwarmemorial.com/angela-ho/ |
| Type |
images video |
| Format | 1 image; 4 video files (00:12:34); 4 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 | hoangela |
Description
| Profile of | Angela Ho |
| Title | The Influence Growing Up |
| Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
| Filename | hoangela-vid2_tr2.pdf |
| Full text | The Influence Growing Up Q: How were you directly affected by the war in terms of childhood and education? Because my parents were involved in the war, my upbringing was different. There was a lot of value put into education. Just working really hard, just in anything you do, not just education. Everything you do, you have to do it your best, give it your all. Even if it’s not perfect, as long as you put your all into it. I see my parents working and just them being themselves. I’m just like, “I wish to be at least half of that.” So I stay up all the nights. Even though it’s hard, I’m just like, “My parents have done that for me.” It just puts everything into perspective. Sometimes I’ll complain about my homework to my mom. But from her perspective that’s ridiculous. She’s like, “You know in Vietnam; people don’t have the freedom to have whatever education they want. If you were in Vietnam, you would have to be selling lottery tickets and you wouldn’t even have enough for a meal.” And I’m just like, “Wow mom way to make me feel horrible.” But it teaches me a lot. Sometimes it’s really hard for us to understand each other. Because I’m going into arts, I’m doing music. Because in Vietnam that’s not really a thing. You don’t really make a living out of that. Even here it’s pretty hard. All they want from me is to survive. They have a very strong survival mentality. And in a sense, our family is kind of crazy. We, I mean, they had a very crazy history. We just worked to unreasonable extent. That’s how it affected my life. Q: How has the war affected your parents? It’s very difficult for my parents to understand, “following your dreams” is a thing, they really have a survival mentality. So it’s like, “Get a job,” “Get a great family,” “Feed your kids.” It’s exactly what they did for me, so they expect me to do those same things. Except this time, I’ll have more opportunity. But growing up in America, I’ll have this horrible advantage. In a sense to them it’s kind of spoiled, where I’m just like “I want to follow my dreams and this is what I’m good at and I feel like this is what god has called me to do.” It’s very hard for them to understand that I don’t have to choose between music and stability. I could do both. |
| Archival file | Volume3/hoangela-vid2_tr2.pdf |
