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Immigrant Stories is a research and archiving project run by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota. Immigrant Stories helps immigrants, refugees, and their family members create digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience.
\n\nThis project defines \"immigrant\" broadly. Our collection contains digital stories from people living outside their country of birth as well as stories created by their children and grandchildren. Immigrant Stories also welcomes stories from international students, international adoptees, and people who do not feel that their stories fit a particular, or just one, category. All stories are important, and we invite you to make a video and share yours with us.
", "title": "Lisa Fetter", "title_s": "Lisa Fetter", "title_t": "Lisa Fetter", "title_search": "Lisa Fetter", "title_sort": "lisafetter", "description": "Her parents settled in Minnesota after fleeing Vietnam and previously living in refugee camps. By the time she was born, her family was able to travel back to Vietnam. Most of her family lives and grew up in the U.S. She says that even though she is American by nationality, she longs to be in Vietnam again.", "date_created": [ "2014-06" ], "date_created_ss": [ "2014-06" ], "date_created_sort": "2014", "creator": [ "Fetter, Lisa (Elizabeth)" ], "creator_ss": [ "Fetter, Lisa (Elizabeth)" ], "creator_sort": "fetterlisaelizabeth", "notes": "Created as part of a week-long workshop at the University of Minnesota,", "types": [ "Moving Image" ], "format": [ "Oral histories | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595" ], "format_name": [ "Oral histories" ], "dimensions": "0:03:40", "subject": [ "Origin Vietnam", "Ethnicity Vietnamese" ], "subject_ss": [ "Origin Vietnam", "Ethnicity Vietnamese" ], "language": [ "English" ], "city": [ "Minneapolis" ], "state": [ "Minnesota" ], "country": [ "United States" ], "region": [ "Hennepin County" ], "continent": [ "North America" ], "parent_collection": "Immigrant Stories; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/immigrant-stories", "parent_collection_name": "Immigrant Stories", "contributing_organization": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name_s": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contact_information": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center. 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc", "fiscal_sponsor": "This work is made possible through the generous funding of the Digital Public Library of America Digital Hubs Pilot, which is supported by the Digital Public Library of America with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.", "local_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0121" ], "dls_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0121" ], "rights_statement_uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "transcription": "Lisa Fetter Digital Story. June 2014\n“Our Adventure”\nMy parents met and married in Saigon. The warfare was nearing their town, so they were forced\nto flee towards safety. They were voyaging to the United States, finally settling in Minnesota in 1975. I\nconstantly put myself in my mother’s position. What would have it been like to get married at twenty,\nmove away from home, everything you knew, to a completely new country, learn a new language, and\nhaving your first child? Even though I don’t know the whole story, I continue to navigate two cultures\nmyself. I am the youngest of three, all born and raised in Minnesota. Growing up, I struggled with fitting\nin when it came to my parents being immigrants. I knew I was an odd duck but I couldn’t grasp why I\nwasn’t allowed to spend the night at a friend’s house, why my parents didn’t volunteer at school, nor why\nmy parents refused to help me with my homework. Eventually, I used my “exotic culture” to my\nadvantage in school. I seized every opportunity to talk about Vietnam.\nIn 2004, we took a family trip to Vietnam. I got to meet my mother’s family that she left behind.\nI created a memory book and I wrote to my best friend. When we were leaving the airport, my parents\ntold me to go first. They wanted to see if my family would recognize us. They actually said “You look\nAmerican. Maybe they won’t know it’s you.” “But don’t we send pictures?” Then I heard someone yell:\n“There’s Hạnh! She looks just like the pictures!” I turned to my mom. “See? I told you.”\nWe made a trip to Suối Tiên. It’s like a theme park. Are there rides? One rollercoaster. Joe and I\nwanted to go on it, but we didn’t have time. We were there for the fruit festival. There were really\ncreative sculptures entirely made of fruit and rocks. We went to the beach, Vung Tau. Swimming in the\nocean is fun until cousins throw and rub wet sand all over your body and shower you with gifts of\nseashells. During our break my cousins asked me “Phai chi la nguoi viet nam hay la nguoi my?” (“Are\nyou Vietnamese or American?”) “Chi chua biet!” (“I don’t know yet!”) We established that I am mixed.\nI told my cousins I’ll come back to visit after I marry.\nTen years later, I am married. My husband also hopes to learn Vietnamese, and we’ll visit\nVietnam together. Now, whenever I am asked, I am first generation Vietnamese American.", "kaltura_video": "1_vagvlt2b", "page_count": 0, "record_type": "primary", "first_viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "attachment": "261.pdf", "attachment_format": "pdf", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "_version_": 1710337987220340736, "type": "Moving Image", "collection": "p16022coll554", "is_compound": false, "parent_id": "137", "thumb_url": "https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/1369852/thumbnail/entry_id/1_vagvlt2b", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/3d282e1403f0835b1ac0b88b84f378fa2400ae0b.png", "children": [ ] }