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Title: Oral History of John Pham
Creator: Pham, John
Contributor: Tiffany Huang
Date Created and/or Issued: 2015-05-17
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
Collection: Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History project
Rights Information: Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Contact the University of California, Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives for more information (spcoll@uci.edu).
Description: Scope/Content: An oral history with Mr. John Pham, born in 1983 in Biên Hòa, Vietnam. After assisting the US military and placed into refugee camps, his father was sponsored to Montclair, California along with Pham’s nine other siblings from 1970s to 1980s. He and his mother were later sponsored to Montclair, California when he was 10 years old. He discusses the culture clash and language barriers he had going to middle school. He also describes his curiosity for different cultures and emphasizes the importance of understanding his own identity and Vietnamese roots. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy at University of Iowa in 2005. He is currently a social worker for Loma Linda Hospital at Montclair, California. He enjoys playing basketball with his friends and is involved with a Roman Catholic Church in Ontario, California. He currently lives in Montclair, California.
Scope/Content: This recording is from the Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2016 Spring subcollection.
Scope/Content: John Pham (right) with his family (L-R) Lap Pham (father), Phung Do (niece), Phi Phi Do (niece), Phuong Phi Do (niece), Thuy Bich Pham (sister), Ontario CA, 2014
Type: sound
Format: 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf time log; 1 pdf life map; 9 jpg image files
Extent: 119 minutes
Identifier: ark:/81235/d84r8s
VAOHP0254
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14162
Language: English
en
Subject: Adoption | Assimilation | Cancer | Catholic | Citizenship | College or university | Communism | Death | Education | Employment | English as a second language (ESL) | Ethnicity | Family | Family reunification | Freedom of speech | Health | High school | Higher education | Identity | Language barrier | Legal issues | Literature | Media | Navy (VN) | Newspaper or magazine | Politics | Poverty | Race relations | Racism | Refugee camp | Religion | Restaurants | Social worker | Sponsors or sponsorship | Sports | Stereotypes | Student | Television | Tradition or custom | Vietnam War | Youth | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Los Angeles County, California | Vietnam, Southern | Bien Hoa (Vietnam) | Da nang (Vietnam) | Ha Noi (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1980-1989
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2016 Spring

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