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Loss of culture
When G.B. was born in America, he was no longer thought of as a Vietnamese person, by both himself and his parents.
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G.B.'s family in Vietnam said "You have been in America for too long" (it was all his life) and that he has lost the Vietnamese culture.
He is encouraged to stay in Vietnam, but gives no sympathy to the idea.
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Western point of view
“You can’t look at our family in vacuum and apply your myopic contemporary western filter to them.” Tran Huu Tri (G.B's father).
This quotes shows how even his own family sees him as an American, and as they explain their story, they say that this is not the culture he is familiar with