Play It Again: Ocean Vuong
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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Are You Going to Do This Because You Love It?
Ocean Wong was born in Saigon and at age two, you come to the United States. You grew up in Hartford, Connecticut; your family didn't come from more stereotypical Asian American families. And here's with the Chinese Exclusion Act and all the various policy in America of excluding Asian Americans. They only allowed economically viable, thriving Asians to immigrate because of Operation Baby Lift and Operation Freakin And Second Chance. The next week they're in LA, Houston, Minnesota,. I think so you have rice farmers who were tilling the field one day but are now working on a book.
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