Part one of term paper
During the ten year period of the United States involvement in Vietnam, some of the United States soldiers and civilians stationed in Vietnam fathered thousands of children with Vietnamese women. These children (Amerasians) that were left behind had distinct American physical features. Because of this, these children were not accepted in the ...

Part two of term paper
... was to come to America. “Tung Joe Nguyen, is the oldest of three children of an American businessman and a Vietnamese women…” (DeBonis 56). Because Joe was half-American, he was beat up, called names, and denied the right to attend school. Joe remembers one time “ ‘Walking home late at night from the movies, when a bunch of kids hiding behind bushes jumped out and beat him up’”… “The parents of these children do nothing about this torment because they assume his mother w ...