A few months ago, the L.A. Times noted that the Vietnamese-American community is shifting to a shade that’s more and more blue, in a story with the provocative head, “Vietnamese voters go left.”
Now that same trend has been spotted in Northern California, in a story in the San Jose Mercury News here.
Entitled “Young Vietnamese-Americans turn away from GOP,” the story tells how older Vietnamese-Americans are overwhelmingly Republican, but younger Viets are flocking to the Democratic party in droves.
The paper did a computer analysis of nearly 30,000 new Santa Clara County voters and found that “Vietnamese-Americans age 30 and under are registering Democratic over Republican by nearly 4 to 1.”
Loc Vu, a man better known among Vietnamese as Giao Chi, told the paper, “The young Vietnamese who were born in this country are the same as the other American kids. They all go to school together. They’re open-minded and they’re part of the new generation of young voters. They have different ideas than the older Vietnamese.”
Vu (no relations to the Bolsavik), is a 75-year-old former colonel in the South Vietnamese military forces, and the head of San Jose’s Immigrant Resettlement and Cultural Center, commonly called the IRCC. He plans to vote for John McCain.
The Mercury News story paints a picture of the party-affiliation that’s markedly different between generations, but that the two generations still understand each other.
Unlike the crazy former South Vietnam military men GOP fanatics (read here) who nearly killed young Q. Bao Nguyen in 2000 just because he’s protesting McCain.
That’s called progress.
This is not an unusual phenomenon. If you look at history, you see that the 1950′s were very conservative. The next “generation” in the 1960′s took to drugs, free love, etc. which seem a polar opposite to their parents positions. Then the 70′s were an extension of that, but slowing down. Then you had the ’80′s where rational thought began to prevail again and society became more conservative. The 90′s were a bit both ways (like the ’70′s).
In the midst of this remember that those subscribing to the thoughts of the communist manefesto indicated that America could never be “taken” from outside, but they would work from the inside. Look to all of your schools and Universities and you will see the most liberal of the liberal teaching our young minds the socialism and liberalism they now display. That is how this country will be taken down, from within, by the brainwashing of our youth. There will be no free country left once this is done.
There is also a famous quote (and I’m sure I’m not quoting it correctly but it goes something like this…) “If a young man is not liberal he has not heart, but when he grows older if he is not a conservative, he has no brains”….
What I find most interesting about liberals is that they don’t mind spreading the wealth around as long as it isn’t theirs….
Young Americans of Viet descent are joining the Democratic Party because they’ve known for a long time that the GOP is full of racist old crooks whom, if they had their ways, would have booted all Asians out of America, kept the black man in chains, and slaughtered the remaining Native Americans. The only Viets who can’t see that are Communist-emulating, McCain ass-kissing old fools who don’t understand or don’t want to understand what it means to live in a democratic country.
Nguyen Chau, think hard! Your lousy lip is spitting lies out of control without shame ….only because you are living in USA with… Republican Presidency.
See if you can say any of these things in front of your lovely “democratic countries around the globe”
Dung King,
Another problem with old Viet – in McCain’s word – gooks, is that some of them can’t even comprehend six sentences that I wrote. Younger people would have realized right away that my yellow assed is covered.
i eat paste.
Nguyen and paste clan…….. assed or axed? Eat what ever pleases your hungry tummy and keep both end of holes closed in the public. It’s dirty and “democratic”!
Bolsavik,
So you’re trying to apply the Dems in an Jose to that of Southern California? Who are you trying to fool, really?
Didn’t the same LA Times publish a story over the weekend with a poll showing that McCain beat out Nobama by well over a 2-1 margin? Don’t hold my brreath for you to print that.
The more you post, the more you only show your blind bias, Bolsavik.
Keep on wishing and hoping, Bolsavik. You’re just frustrated that the Viet community is so GOP-leaning. Fatcts are still facts and you won’t live to see the day that this community is going Democratic, which is about …. 100 years from now. Haha!!
American Woman, our progressive income tax structure is already a form of income redistribution. And don’t tell me the the tax structure is unfair. Our country is currently experiencing the highest level of wealth inequality. Based on your misinformed comments, perhaps you should enroll in one of these “liberal” universities. You may learn a thing or two about economics, government or even rational thought.
That’s me in yellow covering my face with the ‘Skater for Obama’ sign. Didn’t want to show my support for the man on camera.
I don’t get this, the parading of the flag of the defunct South Vietnam. Do they know that they look utterly silly holding something that does not exist and has nothing to do with democracy and the Democratic party? Yet, they want to be taken seriously? Who’s passing the Cool-Aid (see Jim Jones and Jones town) around?
republican,
The flag, in the contemporary American context, represents the Vietnamese-American community. It was officially recognized as such by the city councils of Westminster and Garden Grove a few years back. It is not silly.
Tibetan-Americans, for example, fly the national flag of Tibet. And why not?
What is the relationship between the Rev. Jim Jones and the Jonestown and the flag of the (South) Republic of Vietnam? Please explain.
The flag of the Republic of Vietnam maybe symbolic to some people in Westminster and Garden Grove, but it does not possess the same level of symbolic gesture as the flags of other groups as you would like to believe. Unlike you and your friends, the Tibetans in Tibet are physically resisting their oppressors and risking their life to free Tibet. The Tibetans here in the States fly their flag in support of their bretheren’s plight back home.
There is no physical struggle to free Communist Vietnam and to restore the former regime, so whatever symbolism you find is purely for personal reasons and not symbolic to any cause.
How do you perceive YOURSELF (alone, not for others) as a Vietnamese-American before I can engage further? Are you a Vietnamese living in the United States?