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Reality of a Refugee Family
Q: Does your parents still face the same struggles they did when they first immigrated?
Upward mobility is not a thing for us. Well for me yes. For them no. My grandfather just babysits sometimes. My dad, he did everything he could because he was the sole source of income for his whole family because he was sending money to them while they were in prison and all these things. All their belongs were burnt, the communist just burnt everything they had. So he was a Jeweler, he did a coffee shop, he was a butcher, he did nails for a little bit, he did construction work, he was a mechanic. He truly did everything he could get his hands on. He’s at a custodian job right now. He’s been there for a really long time. My mom just got into the manicurist thing. It was hard for them, because they couldn’t afford college and they had to survive. So they just had to go full time. They decided “Well, the future is now in our children.”
I think even to this day they still have issues with how people treat them. It’s kind of terrible. I worked with my mom for a little bit. She’s a manicurist in a very nice suburban area. People treat her like she’s here to serve them. They’re so rude, they don’t realize that she is a person. Behind that desk and that mask, she is a mom and she has gone through a lot. My dad, one time we went to a dealership to get a car but they didn’t believe that he had enough money to get the car just on what he was wearing. People just don’t understand that their past, they just think lowly of them. But they’re truly amazing people.
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 | Reality of a Refugee Family |
| Format | 1 transcript, 1p. |
| Filename | hoangela-vid4_tr4.pdf |
| Full text | Reality of a Refugee Family Q: Does your parents still face the same struggles they did when they first immigrated? Upward mobility is not a thing for us. Well for me yes. For them no. My grandfather just babysits sometimes. My dad, he did everything he could because he was the sole source of income for his whole family because he was sending money to them while they were in prison and all these things. All their belongs were burnt, the communist just burnt everything they had. So he was a Jeweler, he did a coffee shop, he was a butcher, he did nails for a little bit, he did construction work, he was a mechanic. He truly did everything he could get his hands on. He’s at a custodian job right now. He’s been there for a really long time. My mom just got into the manicurist thing. It was hard for them, because they couldn’t afford college and they had to survive. So they just had to go full time. They decided “Well, the future is now in our children.” I think even to this day they still have issues with how people treat them. It’s kind of terrible. I worked with my mom for a little bit. She’s a manicurist in a very nice suburban area. People treat her like she’s here to serve them. They’re so rude, they don’t realize that she is a person. Behind that desk and that mask, she is a mom and she has gone through a lot. My dad, one time we went to a dealership to get a car but they didn’t believe that he had enough money to get the car just on what he was wearing. People just don’t understand that their past, they just think lowly of them. But they’re truly amazing people. |
| Archival file | Volume3/hoangela-vid4_tr4.pdf |
