She is an Israeli-born Vietnamese woman in her early twenties. She lives in a world conflicted and marginalized by a Jewish community that was once ostracized and persecuted for their own religious beliefs. As a Vietnamese-Israeli (she speaks such poor Vietnamese that I have a hard time differentiating her Hebrew from her Viet!) living among them, she is the one ridiculed, critiqued, marginalized and confused...
Her return to Vietnam is similar to my journey to Vietnam, and the similarities make me think more critiqually about my own experiences...
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