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Nguyễn Việt Thắng (born September 13, 1981) is a Vietnamese footballer who is now playing for XM The Vissai Ninh Bình as a striker. He is a member of the Vietnam national football team.

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I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

Lives, Parent, Think, Thinking, Worthy, Writing

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

Awful, Become, Children, Experience, Want

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

Hollywood, Ministry, Serves, United, United States

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

Acceptance, American, Experience, Immigrant, Rejection, United States

Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders to people that all the comforts that we take for granted can be taken away in just a moment.

Comforts, Moment, People, Reminders, Taken, War

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

Fear, Outsiders, Population, Society, United States

Refugees are threatening, not just to Americans, but also in many countries the world over. And it's partially because, unlike immigrants, refugees do not choose where they're going to go or why they're fleeing, and they are unwanted populations. They bring with them the stigma of disaster.

Americans, Choose, Country, Fleeing, Population, Threatening

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

Done, Fire, Like, People, Thinking, War

I think all immigrants and refugees are preoccupied with memories to one degree or another. But again, this question of how much to remember and how much to forget is really aggravated for those who have lost a tremendous amount.

Degree, Degrees, Forget, Memories, Thinking

People may be vaguely aware that there's suffering in Iraq and Afghanistan, but simply because the media are filled with American-centric versions, we still see the experiences through the American perspective. We are just completely ignorant of what might be happening to other people.

Filled, Iraq, Media, People

The refugees are not only going to be a demand on the country's resources, but also the refugees raise the possibility that the countries that they're going to are themselves not as stable as the citizens would like, I think. We're all just one catastrophe away from ending up as a refugee, and we don't want to be reminded of that.

Citizens, Country, Ending, Possibility, Think, Thinking

Refugees, especially in their early years, are still caught up in the experience that made them refugees. And they're much more melancholic. They're much more oriented towards the past and towards the country of origin. That can make the process of becoming a part of the new country much more fraught for them.

Country, Early, Fraught, Origin, Past, Years

When I was growing up, I cared very little for the customs of my parents, the special things that we're supposed to do as Vietnamese people. But now that I am a parent, I go out of my way to make sure that my son goes to visit his grandparents and participates in customs like the Lunar New Year celebration.

Growing Up, New Year, People, Son, Way

You have to wear a different face when you're interacting with the larger culture. And you can be more of yourself at home or in the local market or in the local church speaking your own language. That was my sense growing up as a Vietnamese refugee in San Jose.

Different Faces, Growing, Growing Up, Home, Local, Wear

In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.

Become, Believe, Country, States, United States

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

Bestowed, Pretentious, Somebody, Title, Titles, Writer

By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the discipline or the patience - or the ability or the humility. It took 20 years to acquire those things.

College, Grand, Humility, Thinking, Vision, Years

I've never stopped being a refugee.

Refugee, Stopped

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