Moving Away From Vietnam

Those of us in the United States have the luxury of visiting our relatives across the world. We get all caught up in our pleasures of vacationing, that we fail to see things from the perspectives of others. For relatives wanting to travel to different countries, saving enough money is no easy task. In the wake of the Vietnam war, economic hardship runs rampant in communities with run-down neighborhoods and disheveled street beggars. My Vietnamese cousin, Thai Minh, doesn't let these difficulties deter him from traveling. Minh travels not only to search for job offers, but also to escape the sensation of feeling trapped inside his war-torn nation. Minh uses traveling to attain a worldview not limited to a single part of the world. In time, he
Soon, even more despair would arise among them. Minh, raising his voice, seems disappointed and sympathetic at the same time: "The government back then, they confiscated all the property from citizens, and many people are forced to go to the undeveloped area which has never been explored before to rebuild." The constant fear of losing one's livelihood became heightened during these oppressive acts. Families of all classes became the target of the government who could swoop in at any moment to seize the land, and there was nothing the owners could do about it. Rather than abandon hope, many fellow citizens banded together in a collective effort to rebuild and regenerate the land
"Everyone has their own career destination, and by this way or that way, we are heading to that destination. I chose the Philippines because this is not my final destination." Minh realizes that this is the correct path for him to take in order to find an abundance of opportunities. By hinting at making the trip to a certain country, namely the U.S., Minh considers it will be the one to finish his career development and truly learn the values of the West. Minh strives to go from a status that is analogous to a less developed nation to a developed nation. He knows that his potential will be fully unlocked upon furthering his education in the