For Vietnamese-Americans, rising anti-Asian violence leaves them preferring the country their parents fled, for now

Six years ago, Christina Bui, who was born in the US state of Virginia to a family of Vietnamese immigrants, accepted a job in Ho Chi Minh City. Her mother was appalled.“My dad was ‘whatever’ [about it] but my mom was furious, giving me the whole ‘I came to America to give you a better life!’ speech,” the 28-year-old recalled about her move to the city also known as Saigon. But amid recent incidents of violence against Asians and African Americans, the Trump administration’s mishandling of the…

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