A Vietnamese American (Vietnamese: người Mỹ gốc Việt) is an American of Vietnamese descent. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese (Việt Kiều) and are the fourth-largest Asian American group.
Mass Vietnamese immigration to the United States started after 1975, after the end of the Vietnam War. Early immigrants were refugee boat people fleeing persecution by the communists. Forced to flee from their homeland and often thrust into poor ...
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A Vietnamese American (Vietnamese: người Mỹ gốc Việt) is an American of Vietnamese descent. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese (Việt Kiều) and are the fourth-largest Asian American group.
Mass Vietnamese immigration to the United States started after 1975, after the end of the Vietnam War. Early immigrants were refugee boat people fleeing persecution by the communists. Forced to flee from their homeland and often thrust into poor urban neighborhoods, these newcomers have nevertheless managed to establish strong communities in a short amount of time.
As a relatively recent immigrant group, most Vietnamese Americans are either first- or second-generation Americans. They have the lowest distribution of people with more than one race among the major Asian American groups. As many as one million people who are five years and older speak Vietnamese at home—making it the seventh-most spoken language in the United States. As refugees, Vietnamese Americans have some of the...
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