780 South First Street, San Jose, CA 95113
Park Ave. San Jose CA 95110
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Issues
- Health Insurance
- Gambling Addiction
- Mental health stigmas
- High incarceration rate
- Police Brutality
History
- Between 1950-1974 there were only 650 recorded Vietnamese immigrants. After the fall of Saigon, 125,000 were recorded.
- The first wave of immigrants came because they were affiliated with Americans and were highly skilled and highly educated.
- The first wave of immigrants were transferred to refugee centers one of which was Camp Pendleton.
- In 1977 the 2nd wave of immigrants started arriving to the United States. This wave continued until the mid 1980s.
California officially recognizes the pre-communist flag of Saigon as the United States government recognizes the current flag of Saigon.
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| Pre-communist Flag of Vietnam |
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| Today's Flag of Vietnam |
Demographics
- San Jose Vietnamese population: 100,486 (2010); 8.8% of the city's total population.
- San Jose has the largest Vietnamese population in the country.
- More than 5,000 businesses are owned by Vietnamese Americans.
- In Santa Clara county there are 60,657 ELL and 6,791 are Vietnamese
- There is an active community in San Jose around the Chua Duc Vien temple.
- 1 in 10 Vietnamese families lived in poverty in 2007 to 2009 in Santa Clara county.
- 1 in 3 Vietnamese households (36%) were linguistically isolated (no member ages 14 or older spoke only English)
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