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| Wave of Vietnamese Americans run for office in Orange County |
| 2018-10-22 |
| [FOX] A wave of Vietnamese Americans – more than half of whom share the same last name – are running for public office in Orange County, California, The Los Angeles Times reported. Among the 24 candidates who are running for different offices, 13 share the same last name: Nguyen. Little Saigon, an enclave in Orange County that comprises Garden Grove, Westminster, and Fountain Valley, is home to one of the largest concentrations of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam. Karthick Ramakrishnan, a UC Riverside professor quoted by The Times, credited the rise in the Vietnamese’ political participation to their increasing “influence in central O.C. policies.” She said the wave of Vietnamese Americans has its origins in the years immediately following the Vietnam War, during which thousands of Vietnamese refugees resettled in California. The name “Nguyen” is the most common Vietnamese surname. Its origins lie in a dynasty that ruled Vietnam until Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh took control of the North in 1945. Today, as many as 40 percent of Vietnamese people answer to “Nguyen,” according to some estimates. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 My nephew's HS in an affluent San Diego 'burb had 18 Nguyens. The rest of the students counted them off |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-10-22 15:16 |
| #3 At least they should be inoculated against communist ideas. I kind of wish the Vietnamese and Koreans would take over the California Democrat party. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-10-22 13:41 |
| #2 Even more strange, two of my recent doctors have been female vietnamese, and neither one is named Thuy. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-10-22 08:19 |
| #1 Despite the different transliteration/spelling system, it's the same word/name as Wang is in Chinese. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-10-22 08:18 |