Title: Vietnamese Immigration to the United States After the Vietnam War | Vietnamese Immigration
Headings: Vietnamese Immigration to the United States After the Vietnam War
Vietnamese Immigration to the United States After the Vietnam War
Content: However, the willingness to leave the country and risk their lives in order to try to get to America shows the desperation the Vietnamese faced in the years following the fall of Saigon. As mentioned previously, the Vietnam War was very unpopular among American citizens. According to a 1975 Gallup poll, over half of the American public did not agree with the resettlement of the Vietnamese to the United States. Some believe this high number of those in disagreement with the this huge number of Vietnamese immigrants came from how fed up American citizens were with the war in Vietnam, while others blamed the data on the tendency to see the Vietnamese as “enemies.” However, most Vietnamese refugees had been on the America’s side during the war. No one can be sure exactly what the reasoning was behind the data from the poll, but it made resettlement for Vietnamese immigrants after the war incredibly difficult. What made acclimation most difficult following the Vietnam War was the spreading out of Vietnamese immigrants. The immigrants who were placed with sponsors moved all over the country, which was difficult for a culture who relies so much on family and community. After a few years in America and getting more used to their new land, Vietnamese immigrants moved to large metropolitan areas to create ethnic enclaves with other Asian-Americans. The most prominent example of these enclaves is “Little Saigon” in Orange County, California.