Narrator: Kelley Khuu

Interviewer: Quyen Tran

Date of Interview: 2015-05-06

Date Available to Public: 2025-05-17 ⇐ All files restricted until this date

Permanent Link To This Item: http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14163

Summary: An oral history with Ms. Kelley Khuu, a Chinese descendant born in 1977 in Cần Thơ, Vietnam. She spent the first ten years of her life as an ordinary child in Vietnam before immigrating to the United States by plane through her grandmother’s sponsorship in 1987. She was captured by the Communist Party when she was two, and that left a mark on her childhood. She couldn’t remember much of her time in Vietnam since she left when she was young. She discusses how life in America was for her and emphasizes the opportunities and freedom that the United States offers its citizens. She earned a college degree in accounting. She lived happily after moving to America and grew up as a Vietnamese American, carrying both cultures and traditions. Now settled with her nuclear family, including her husband and son in Anaheim, California, Kelley would like to preserve the precious traditions for future generations. She took her son to a school run by a Buddhist temple to learn Vietnamese and would like to be a teacher there as her involvement in the community.

Decade of Birth: 1970-1979

Subjects: Acculturation | Banker | Buddhist | Business | Chinese and ethnic Chinese | Citizenship | College or university | Education | Emigration | Employment | Entrepreneur | Family | Festival | Immigrant | Marriage | Moon Festival | Nail salons | Prisoner | Refugee camp (Philippines) | Sponsors or sponsorship | Tet Festival | Tradition or custom | Tourism | Welfare | Anaheim, California | Huntington Beach, California | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Can Tho (Vietnam)

Type: Sound

Duration: 85 minutes

Language: English

Identifier: VAOHP0233

Provenance: Recorded Digitally