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Jordanian Americans (Arabic: الأميركيون الأردنيون, romanized: al-Amīrkīyūn al-Urdunīyūn) are Americans of Jordanian descent. In 2014, the American Community Survey reported that there were 80,120 Jordanian Americans in the United States.
The first substantial generation of Amerasian Vietnamese Americans were born to American personnel, primarily military men, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1975. Many Amerasians were ignored by their American parent; in Vietnam, the fatherless children of foreign men were called con lai ("mixed race") or the pejorative bụi đời ("dust ...
Phạm Hùng, Secretary of the Central Office of South Vietnam (COSVN), outlined the requirements about the ordered anthem: [1] [2] The anthem's targets were all of the population of South Vietnam. The anthem had to call for the armed insurrection against the US-backed Saigon regime and the unification of Vietnam as a whole.
In Vietnam, the term Việt Kiều is used to describe Vietnamese people living abroad, though it is not commonly adopted as a term of self-identification. [81] Instead, many overseas Vietnamese also use the terms Người Việt hải ngoại ("Overseas Vietnamese"), a neutral designation, or Người Việt tự do ("Free Vietnamese"), which carries a political connotation.
Andrew X. Pham – author of Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (1999) Chau Nguyen – news anchor; first Vietnamese-American to be awarded a regional Emmy Award; Andy Ngo - right-wing author and social media influencer and journalists; Đoàn Văn Toại (1945–2017) – author of The ...
Sóc Trăng (362,029 people, constituting 30.18% of the province's population and 27.43% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Trà Vinh (318,231 people, constituting 31.53% of the province's population and 24.11% of all Khmer in Vietnam), Kiên Giang (211,282 people, constituting 12.26% of the province's population and 16.01% of all Khmer in Vietnam), An ...
Vietnam Television (Vietnamese: Đài Truyền-hình Việtnam, [1] [2] abbreviated THVN [3]), sometimes also unofficially known as the National Television (Đài Truyền-hình Quốc-gia [1]), Saigon Television (Đài Truyền-hình Sàigòn [1]) or Channel 9 (Đài số 9, THVN9), was one of two national television broadcasters in South Vietnam from February 7, 1966, until just before the ...
In 2005 Houston had 32,000 Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans, making it the second largest Vietnamese American community in the United States of any city after that of San Jose, California. [14] In 2006 Greater Houston had around 58,000 Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans, giving it the third largest such community of all U.S. metropolitan ...