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Neo » 20 Jun 2022, 2:39 pm » wrote: ↑ It's only as embedded as one wants it to be. Constantly focusing on race and historical injustice is a sure way to fail at life. Took Vietnamese less than a generation to go from boat people despised by many Americans to upper middle class business owners. Do you think they would have had the same success if they used the war as an excuse? If they protested the US government for reparations rather than jumping head first into opening small businesses?
Good point! But they were never lynched, and harrassed like Blacks have been, and there are  a lot more Blacks than Vietnamese. It did help that a lot of G.I.s married some of them.
 
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