American Involvement In Vietnam War

After the Fall of Saigon, many Vietnamese refugees had left Vietnam in the hope of moving to another democratic country that would accept them. This resulted in the Indochina refugee crisis, in which a large outflow of people from the former French colonies of Indochina, comprising the countries of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, after communist governments were established in 1975. Most of these refugees were thus taken in by other countries and were resettled, mostly in North America and Europe. At least twenty Western countries, led by France, Canada, Australia, and the United States, the very nation that tried but failed to help prevent their country of South Vietnam from falling to Communism. The total number of Vietnamese evacuated by the

They took advantage of America’s vast suburbs and got together to open up businesses and community centers. The growth of these areas attracted new arrivals as well as Vietnamese from across the country that wished to rejoin their already established relatives and friends. The viability of entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging Vietnamese commercial distracts, along with a ready-made ethnic consumer base proved to be too good to miss. In turn, newcomers who flocked to the area also brought along their financial experiences, as well as human resources and social capital with them. One Vietnamese community in particular that stood out the most was a Vietnamese suburb, called Little Saigon, located in Orange County, California. What sets Orange County and Little Saigon apart from other Vietnamese communities in the U.S., is that it is the most established for an ethnic enclave that used to be a white suburban stronghold, and because it is home to the largest amount of Vietnamese Americans, giving it the title, the capital of Vietnamese America. By focusing on the structural and social opportunities that existed in Orange County suburbia since the beginning of their arrival, the Vietnamese were able to establish a strong and vibrant community in Orange County, which in turn, lead to the growth and influence of Little Saigon. In general, these analytical questions will help explain how the Vietnamese refugees built such a prosperous community from just little to nothing. As Vo from, Constructing a Vietnamese American Community, said, “In the last thirty years, Vietnamese refugees and immigrants have not merely transformed the racial landscape of the county, but even with their limited resources, are also translating their demographic growth, residential density, and economic concentration into political