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Henry Nguyen
Henry Nguyen (''Vietnamese'': Nguyễn Bảo Hoàng) (born. 1973) is a Vietnamese-American businessman, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Early life Nguyễn Bảo Hoàng's father, Bang Nguyen, was a civil engineer who held a position in the South Vietnamese government. After Saigon came under the Communist Party of Vietnam's control in 1975, he left for the United States, taking his wife, Kim Vu, their older son, Huy, daughters Thy and Linh and Henry, who was 22 months old at the time. Henry grew up in Fairfax County, VA. Nguyen won a scholarship to attend Phillips Exeter Academy but instead attended W. T. Woodson high school, W.T. Woodson High before attending both Harvard and, later, Northwestern University. After graduating from Harvard in 1995 he began working for Let's Go (book series), Let's Go, a travel guide aimed at a student and backpacker readership. The publisher decided to do a book on Southeast Asia, and as Henry spoke Vietnamese, the editor asked him if he wou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnamese-American
Vietnamese Americans ( vi, Người Mỹ gốc Việt, lit=Viet-origin American people) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American ethnic group after Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, and Indian Americans. There are about 2.2 million people of Vietnamese descent residing in the U.S. The Vietnamese community in the United States was minimal until the South Vietnamese immigration to the country following the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975. Early immigrants were refugee boat people who were loyal to the now defunct South Vietnam in the Vietnam War conflict, who fled due to fear of political persecution. More than half of Vietnamese Americans reside in the two most populous states of California and Texas, primarily their large urban areas. Coming from different waves of immigration, Vietnamese Americans have a lower educational attainment than overall total Asian American population but it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
