{"product_id":"129304","title":"The Two-Faced Man ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQtgpSoAOqunrSuxsAjoNf.png?v=1764871905\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e The Two-Faced Man \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/162196569\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe original author of director Park Chan-wook's drama \"The Sympathizer\"\u003cbr\u003e Autobiographical essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Oprah, Houston Chronicle, Library Journal, Amazon Book of the Year!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “There is another name for breaking free from the shackles and breaking the curse.\u003cbr\u003e It is decolonization.” - From “The Man with Two Faces”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The autobiographical essay \"The Man with Two Faces\" by Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen, who created a sensation in the American media and literary world by winning the Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, \"The Sympathizer,\" is being published by Minumsa. \u003cbr\u003eThis book serves as a compass, detailing the origins of Viet Thanh Nguyen's dark and dry sense of humor, his highly satirical spirit, and his keen awareness of reality, representing the Asian immigrant writers who most sharply portray the spirit of contemporary American literature.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Do you know how to get to San Jose? 11\u003cbr\u003e Hello, Hollywood? 34\u003cbr\u003e The Beginning of Memory 45\u003cbr\u003e The Only Example You Can Be 73\u003cbr\u003e Colonizers and the Colonized 98\u003cbr\u003e White People and Other Saviors 120\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mixed Emotions 131\u003cbr\u003e So... where is your real hometown? 151\u003cbr\u003e Drifting Away 164\u003cbr\u003e America's Problem 180\u003cbr\u003e The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 191\u003cbr\u003e Ronald Reagan Room 208\u003cbr\u003e War Stories, or Your 1980s: Episode 1, Part 224\u003cbr\u003e Say My Name, or Your 1980s: Episode 2, Part 245  \u003cbr\u003eAll About Your Mother, or Your 1980s: Episode 3, Part 253\u003cbr\u003e Memory Therapy 267\u003cbr\u003e Your Education 277\u003cbr\u003e Portrait of a Young and Foolish Writer 288\u003cbr\u003e Your Own Archive 311\u003cbr\u003e What's Left for You 325\u003cbr\u003e Pilgrimage 341\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Oblivion, intentionally or accidentally 341\u003cbr\u003e Obituary 359\u003cbr\u003e Eulogy 385\u003cbr\u003e Open Secret 385\u003cbr\u003e My End 407\u003cbr\u003e Vietnamese Holy Land 414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 431\u003cbr\u003e Source 435\u003cbr\u003e Permission to quote 462\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate6026\/MidCate010\/602597819.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Every parent should make a movie of their life.\u003cbr\u003e At least that's what our parents should do.\u003cbr\u003e Their epic journey is worthy of being portrayed by star actors.\u003cbr\u003e Even an independent, low-budget film would be fine.\u003cbr\u003e I would love to see the beautiful Joan Chen in her prime playing my mother, and the young and charming Russell Wong playing my father.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Neither actor is Vietnamese, but so what.\u003cbr\u003e Because here we are all 'Asians'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.11-12\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt was a red brick house, and the upstairs tenants were a white family, and I played with their daughter on a sofa that the previous owners had left in the yard.\u003cbr\u003e My brother and I share a room.\u003cbr\u003e My brother listens to 1970s hits, including “Hotel California,” that Vietnamese teenagers his age had to memorize by heart.\u003cbr\u003e I make my dad laugh by calling kitchen chicken.\u003cbr\u003e There was a brief period when my father's English skills were better than mine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our store on East Santa Clara Street is the heart of the city.\u003cbr\u003e My parents named their store 'SaiGon M?i (New Saigon)'.\u003cbr\u003e It is a compromise between the westernized 'Saigon' and the original spelling 'Sai Gon'.\u003cbr\u003e The use of Vietnamese names instead of English is a declaration that we are here because Americans came there. \u003cbr\u003eMaybe it's even a sign of resistance, but I haven't thought about it that far yet.\u003cbr\u003e We just have to accept that this store is the place for us.\u003cbr\u003e We don't need an interpreter for each other, but when we meet the Americans who surround us, we are people who can only exist through an interpreter. (21-22)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My brother leaves me in the living room watching cartoons and goes to answer the phone.\u003cbr\u003e While I was laughing out loud, my brother came back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e My brother says, \"Mom and Dad got shot.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I'm probably now\u003cbr\u003e My nine-year-old son\u003cbr\u003e Like watching a cartoon\u003cbr\u003e He must have been laughing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mom and Dad got shot, my brother says again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What are you doing?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why aren't you saying anything?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Don't you feel anything?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I am\u003cbr\u003e Laughter\u003cbr\u003e Stop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To be honest, yes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Numbness\u003cbr\u003e Could you call it a feeling?\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.30-31\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAccording to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, it is a horrific experience to join the ranks of 130 million forcibly displaced people worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e Ukrainians who became refugees due to the Russian invasion are welcomed warmly because of their unique white ethnicity.\u003cbr\u003e The shabby but still beautiful story of Ukrainian refugees fleeing to Mexico and seeking asylum at the U.S. border could perhaps be made into a Hollywood film starring Angelina Jolie.\u003cbr\u003e But Central American refugees waiting patiently while Ukrainian whites cross the U.S. border, or African refugees facing violence while trying to cross from Ukraine to Poland, will not be featured in Hollywood films.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A country made up of immigrants. \u003cbr\u003eA country larger than New Zealand or Ireland, Norway or Denmark, Singapore or Hong Kong, Switzerland or Austria, Portugal or Greece, Belgium or the Netherlands, Taiwan or Australia, South Korea or the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia or Spain, Italy or France, Cambodia or Thailand, Germany or Iran, appears in the distance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But why do you insist on comparing yourselves to a country?\u003cbr\u003e People hate you and define you as their enemy,\u003cbr\u003e Not a member of any country\u003cbr\u003e It reminds us of how vulnerable the home and the nation are.\u003cbr\u003e Defined as those who threaten the existence of the nation,\u003cbr\u003e Even if I don't hate you by any chance\u003cbr\u003e It is considered a crisis signal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You, refugees.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.36-37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Decades later, I found myself in the suburbs of San Gabriel Valley, California.\u003cbr\u003e I'm at a party hosted by someone I don't know.\u003cbr\u003e The host  \u003cbr\u003eHe takes out an AK-47 rifle and shoots it at the ground, saying he is celebrating the New Year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There is a loud noise and my ears start to ring.\u003cbr\u003e The shooter fires the gun until the magazine is empty.\u003cbr\u003e While firing, the vibration of the bullet hitting the ground is transmitted as is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Multiplying that by 1000 gives you the volume and speed of the flying metal,\u003cbr\u003e And I can imagine the fear my mother must have felt.\u003cbr\u003e people in their twenties\u003cbr\u003e While the host was walking around with an AK-47 and shaking hands with people,\u003cbr\u003e You leave the party as quickly as possible.\u003cbr\u003e When you leave\u003cbr\u003e My friends say the host frowned\u003cbr\u003e It doesn't matter.\u003cbr\u003e Because you are a coward and you intend to continue living that way.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.43\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Ellison was four years old, ■■■ was elected President of the United States.\u003cbr\u003e He pledges to prevent the so-called \"American Holocaust,\" promising:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You will never be ignored again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In this 'you', under the only God\u003cbr\u003e Of course you, an insignificant being,  \u003cbr\u003eNot included, and probably your son too\u003cbr\u003e It will not be included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the country of ■■■, you, an Asian, are the other, the one who is nothing to anyone, the one who was once invisible, but now you are seen everywhere and are condemned.\u003cbr\u003e However, he is not yet the number one 'Other' as thought by ■■■ and his followers.\u003cbr\u003e As will soon come the fourth time, the harassment and incitement begins with the most vulnerable, the undocumented immigrants coming north from other continental nations overshadowed by AmericaTM.\u003cbr\u003e These too, once invisible, have now become all too visible.\u003cbr\u003e ■■■ separates parents and children and detains them in detention centers to prevent such immigrants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Some immigrants and refugees, namely\u003cbr\u003e Atrocities against dark-skinned immigrants and refugees\u003cbr\u003e It happens whether the president is a Democrat or a Republican,\u003cbr\u003e ■■■ is the cruelty of bureaucracy  \u003cbr\u003eObsessed with turning it into a political and theatrical spectacle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.62-63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Baba Ma sent you to the best elite private high school in San Jose.\u003cbr\u003e You repay this by being rejected by all but one of the universities you applied to.\u003cbr\u003e On the first night of college, a time when I really didn't want to go, my classmates gathered around, looked at each other gloomily, and asked, \"What did I do wrong to get here?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In short, you're screwed\u003cbr\u003e 'Failed' is a relative term.\u003cbr\u003e Because you got a B+ average!\u003cbr\u003e B+ is also called F for Asians.\u003cbr\u003e F stands for 'fuckup' and A stands for 'Asian'.\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.73-74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You watch the movie until its embarrassing final scene.\u003cbr\u003e Set in Cambodia, Marlon Brando plays Kurtz, a white man who becomes a native and a savage.\u003cbr\u003e Even if he is a savage, he is still a white man.\u003cbr\u003e He is the king of the natives. \u003cbr\u003eWillard stabs him to death with a machete as he rubs his bald head and mutters, “Horror, horror...”\u003cbr\u003e As Kurtz lies dying, the Cambodian natives (played by Igorots from the Philippines, where the film was shot) slaughter a water buffalo.\u003cbr\u003e The poor buffalo was actually slaughtered! The scene where they were chopping up chunks of buffalo flesh with a machete is so fucking real.\u003cbr\u003e Movies like this aren't made anymore.\u003cbr\u003e Blame the progressive animal lovers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e You are a writer, not a film director.\u003cbr\u003e So I wrote that damn thing, The Sympathizer.\u003cbr\u003e The book features a film director who is as self-conscious as he is talented, who subtly resembles Coppola, but who is not Coppola.\u003cbr\u003e Whoever the director is, many Hollywood insiders have read your book and no one disputes his characterization. \u003cbr\u003eMaybe he's another famous film director who made another war hit set in Vietnam.\u003cbr\u003e You reluctantly signed a copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning limited edition of The Sympathizer at the request of a friend who knew the film director, including a written tribute to him, only to find that autographed copy selling for $499 on eBay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.91\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e American soldiers who came to Vietnam called the area outside their launching bases \"Indian country.\"\u003cbr\u003e In the imagination of American colonizers, all native peoples are Indians.\u003cbr\u003e General Philip Sheridan, surrounded by Indians in 1869, said, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”\u003cbr\u003e You play the role of both the good Indian and the bad Indian who surrounds the white people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Theodore Roosevelt, who later became president, offered a more generous statement in 1886. \u003cbr\u003e“I don’t believe that only dead Indians are good Indians, but I think nine times out of ten they are.”\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- pp.122-123\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe story of a man who “belongs to two countries and none at the same time.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in northern Vietnam in 1971, the second son of immigrants who fled Vietnam to the United States in 1975 after the fall of Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City.\u003cbr\u003e His present is shaped by the relationship between two countries, Vietnam and the United States.\u003cbr\u003e One misconception many Americans have is that his family came to the United States because 'America went to Vietnam first.'\u003cbr\u003e They were there, that's why they are here.\u003cbr\u003e This applies not only to the Nguyen family, but also to many immigrants and refugees in the United States today.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe Nguyen family, who had been doing business in northern Vietnam, first fled to Saigon in the south when North Vietnam became communist.\u003cbr\u003e The diaspora had already begun before coming to America.\u003cbr\u003e When the withdrawal of American troops was confirmed and they left Vietnam, the Nguyen family's father and mother left their teenage adopted daughter in Vietnam to protect their property and home, and took only their two biological sons on a journey from which they could not return.\u003cbr\u003e The author has few detailed memories of their arduous journey, but they arrived in Pennsylvania, USA, where they settled in a refugee camp.\u003cbr\u003e However, after this, these families cannot leave the camp as full members.\u003cbr\u003e If the parents want to leave the camp and become independent, they must send their children to other places for temporary adoption.\u003cbr\u003e So Viet and his older brother Anh Tung are each placed in the care of different white families. \u003cbr\u003eAlthough the younger Viet was reunited with his parents after a few months, his older brother was separated from them for two years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The place where they met again as a complete family and settled down was San Jose, California.\u003cbr\u003e His parents opened a grocery store here called 'Saigon Moi'.\u003cbr\u003e Already self-made businessmen in Vietnam, they did not arrive in the United States completely empty-handed, and thanks to this, the family began to successfully settle down by opening a store and purchasing a home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eVietnam and the United States: a bloody history and colonial memories\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As with most \"model minority\" Asian immigrant families, their lives follow a formula for the \"American Dream.\"\u003cbr\u003e First-generation immigrant parents work tirelessly without holidays, hoping that their children will become doctors or professors and rise in the social class of second-generation immigrants. \u003cbr\u003eAnd the Nguyen family's wish came true.\u003cbr\u003e His older brother, Anh Tung, became a doctor who served as President Obama's personal physician, and Viet became a professor of American literature at USC.\u003cbr\u003e But everything they went through along the way made Viet Thanh Nguyen a novelist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One day, as a child, he rented a videotape on a holiday and started watching the movie alone in his empty house.\u003cbr\u003e It's a war movie that young boys would like.\u003cbr\u003e On the screen, his fellow countrymen with the same skin color and the same language appear, and the white protagonist he identifies with opens fire on them.\u003cbr\u003e At that moment, he splits into two.\u003cbr\u003e Am I the one getting shot and dying, or am I the white guy with the gun?\u003cbr\u003e The film was Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, and it depicted the very war that brought his family here to America.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThere is the devoted care of parents who work without holidays and come home to prepare meals for their children, but that alone cannot prevent all the discrimination, insults, and absurdities that minority and immigrant children experience.\u003cbr\u003e Graffiti like \"Another American Loses His Job Because of the Vietnamese\" appears on my parents' store, gun-wielding robbers break into stores and homes, and the main characters in all the movies and dramas I watch as a teenager are all white.\u003cbr\u003e If he and his brother were to appear on television, it would be in a documentary about the success of a model minority, not a fun romantic drama.\u003cbr\u003e Viet spends her formative years sensitively and acutely reflecting on where she fits within the invasive and exclusive white-centric narrative that dominates American popular culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAfter entering the liberal arts school of Berkeley, he became an English literature student who paid attention to the stories of ethnic minorities and the historical and political contexts in which they lived.\u003cbr\u003e Although the English Department is also exclusive in that it focuses on the history of English literature, which is dominated by white people, he continued his studies through the teachings of Asian professors such as Maxine Hong Kingston and his interest in modern and contemporary American literature, and became a professor teaching ethnic studies.\u003cbr\u003e But even after becoming a professor, his hidden desire was still to write novels, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for writing The Sympathizer, a novel featuring a \"two-faced man\" like himself as the main character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBecause it's the most private\u003cbr\u003e The most political story\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn an interview, he said that he was able to write \"The Sympathizer\" because he lived a double agent-like life, observing the lives of his Vietnamese parents at home and Americans outside.\u003cbr\u003e He is a 'two-faced man' who moves between two worlds, but cannot claim his place in either.\u003cbr\u003e It's a daily occurrence for me to tell a Vietnamese scholar I met at an academic conference that I'm also Vietnamese, only to be flatly denied with a \"no,\" and for Americans to tell me that \"all Asians look the same.\"\u003cbr\u003e Racism still exists, it's just more diverse. When the nation was suffering from COVID-19, then-President Donald Trump called it not just the Chinese virus, but \"Kung Flu,\" a portmanteau of \"kung fu\" and \"virus.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs the history of immigration has lengthened, the socio-historical context of immigrants and refugees in the United States has become more complex and diverse.\u003cbr\u003e In the case of George Floyd's murder by an American police officer that stirred up the African-American community, the Asian police officer who protected the white officer who committed the crime was Thu Thao, who is of Muong ethnicity in Vietnam.\u003cbr\u003e Looking at this incident, the author recalls that the Muong people, the ethnic group of the perpetrator, Thu Thao, were an ethnic minority that suffered under the rule of the Kinh people, the majority ethnic group to which the Nguyen family belonged, when they lived in Vietnam.\u003cbr\u003e In this way, the history of perpetrators and victims mix and intersect, giving birth to new rulers and ruled.\u003cbr\u003e The author calls the way to escape the shackles of this oppression 'decolonialism.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Moreover, this book is not only political but also deeply personal. \u003cbr\u003eHis mother, who had been a resilient businesswoman in Vietnam, lived a life without escape beyond her store and home after coming to the United States. 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