Roots of Displacement After reading chapter 1, I realized how little I knew about Vietnamese culture and history. Chapter 1 introduces 2 theories as to why many Vietnamese people immigrated to other countries. One reason was because of the Cold War, and another was because Vietnam may be a second or even a third-world country. Before the chapter got into detail about the reasons of immigration, there was a brief historical summary that set the stage and explained …showed first 75 words of 778 total…

…showed last 75 words of 778 total…system, maintaining its political stability as a condition for economic growth. In the recent years, though economic growth has been drastic, the life conditions of the Vietnamese people have changed slightly. Vietnam still remains as one of the world's poorest countries, still suffering from social inequality and corruption and very little political freedom, if any at all. The country will not find national success until it finds both economic growth and political freedom as well.