What are the main issues that current are controversial and dividing the Vietnamese American communities? Why?

Answer 1

1. Religion
"While Christians (mainly Roman Catholics) make up about eight percent of Vietnam's total population, they compose as much as 30 percent of the total Vietnamese American population."

2.Westernisation of second generation immigrants
"The Vietnamese American population fits in with the stereotype of the poorly assimilated immigrant population still culturally and emotionally connected to the homeland and the relatively assimilated second-generation to whom the old country is a mere abstraction .... the younger generations of American- raised and educated Vietnamese Americans are increasingly speaking English rather than the mother tongue of Vietnamese. Additionally, the younger generations have become much more acculturated to the Western culture than their traditional Vietnamese culture."

3. Political affiliation
"Membership in the Democratic Party was once considered anathema among Vietnamese Americans because it was seen as less supportive of the Vietnam War, at least toward the war's end, in comparison to Nixon-era Republicans. However, their support for the Republican Party has somewhat eroded in recent years, as the Democratic Party has become seen in a more favorable light by the second generation as well as by newer, poorer refugees."

4. Income and social class
"Vietnamese Americans vary widely in income and social class levels. Many Vietnamese Americans are upper–middle class professionals who fled from the increasing power of the Communist Party after the Vietnam War, while others work primarily in blue-collar jobs. In San Jose, California, for example, this diversity in income levels can be seen in the different Vietnamese American neighborhoods scattered across Santa Clara County. In the Downtown San Jose area, many Vietnamese are working-class and are employed in many blue-collar positions such as restaurant cooks, repairmen, and movers, while the Evergreen and Berryessa sections of the city are middle- to upper–middle class neighborhoods with large Vietnamese American populations—many of whom work in Silicon Valley's computer, networking, and aerospace industries."

5. High achievement vs. delinquency
"While gangs have become part of the reality and societal perception of Vietnamese Americans, a contrary perception of young Vietnamese Americans as high achievers has also become common .... Vietnamese American communities often have dense, well-organized sets of social ties that provide encouragement to and social control of children. At the same time, these communities are often located in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods at the margins of American society. Vietnamese children who maintain close connections to their own communities are often driven to succeed, while those who are outsiders to their own society often assimilate into some of the most alienated youth cultures of American society and fall into delinquency."

6. Ethnicity/language (Vietnamese vs. Chinese)
A fraction of Vietnamese Americans consists of ethnic overseas Chinese who immigrated to Vietnam centuries ago. Ethnic Chinese made up a large fraction of the commercial elite who left after the fall of Saigon, and also after the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979, which led to discrimination against ethnic Chinese and contributed to a large fraction of them to become boat people. As a result, many Vietnamese Americans also speak fluent Cantonese."

7. Ethnicity/language (Vietnamese vs. Eurasian/Amerasian)
"Some Vietnamese Americans are racially Eurasians—persons of European and Asian descent. These Eurasians are descendants of ethnic Vietnamese and (Caucasian/European) French settlers and soldiers during the French colonial period (1883-1945) or during the Franco-Vietnamese War (First Indochina War) (1946-1954). Amerasians are descendants of ethnic Vietnamese and White, Black and Hispanic American personnel (mostly military) during the Vietnam War (1961-1975) .... Many of these Amerasians, as well as their mothers, experienced significant social and institutional discrimination in Vietnam, including denial of basic civil rights like an education; this discrimination only got worse following the American withdrawal in 1973. The discrimination was typically even greater for children of African American or Hispanic servicemen."

All quotes from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_American

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Answer 2

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