Vietnamese Americans are opening their doors, offering support to Afghan refugees
An unlikely bond: In cities like Philadelphia and Seattle, Vietnamese landlords, business owners, artists and neighbors have been offering support to refugees in whatever way they can, remembering their own plights when arriving from Vietnam in the late 1970s.
Since Aug. 2021, the U.S. has been accepting thousands of refugees from Afghanistan, with these families and individuals heading to all four corners of the nation.
Many of the new arrivals have no money or personal belongings with them, having desperately rushed onto flights leaving their home country after the Taliban officially took over.
To many Vietnamese Americans, the images of Afghans rushing onto packed planes greatly resemble their own experiences leaving Saigon on helicopters with nothing but pocket change. Many have also drawn parallels between the failures of the Vietnam War and the war in Afghanistan.
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