... life. From birth, the Vietnamese are taught to respect their elders, try to gain good Karma, and to carry their ancestral views from one generation to another. Monkey Bridge, a novel that demonstrates the alienation, assimilation, and exile of the Vietnamese after the Vietnam War in America is told by a mother and daughter pair. Through the narration of the daughter, Mai ... into American culture is only more prominent through her views on education, which are strangely different from traditional Vietnamese views. In American Dream in Vietnamese, Lieu comments about how "Vietnamese immi...

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