The follow is a list of groups formed by or for the Vietnamese-American community.
Military
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Vietnamese American Armed Forces Association
The Vietnamese American Armed Forces Association (abbreviated: VAAFA), (Vietnamese: Hội Quân Nhân Người Mỹ Gốc Việt), is a non-profit, non partisan professional military association. It is the first military association for Vietnames ...
Academic
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Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations The Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations (UNAVSA) ( vi, Liên Hội Sinh Viên Việt Nam Bắc Mỹ Châu) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, community-based organization founded in 2004 as a means for Vietnamese people, Vietnamese organ ...
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Civic and political
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Boat People SOS
Boat People SOS (BPSOS) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization devoted to Vietnamese-American civic and political activism. It is headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. BPSOS' mission is to "empower, organize, and equip Vietnamese individuals and ...
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East Meets West
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Radio Free Vietnam
Radio Free Vietnam is the broadcasting network of a Vietnamese anti-communist group called the Government of Free Vietnam that is released throughout the world and its headquarters is located in Southern California
California is a state in ...
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Vietnamese Alliance to Combat Trafficking
The Vietnamese Alliance to Combat Trafficking (VietACT) is a Vietnamese non-profit, grassroots organization founded in 2004 dedicated to eradicating human trafficking of Vietnamese victims through collaboration, advocacy, and education.
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Gangs
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Born to Kill Born to Kill may refer to:
Film
* ''Born to Kill'' (1947 film), a film noir directed by Robert Wise
* ''Born to Kill'' (1967 film), a Spaghetti Western directed by Antonio Mollica
* ''Born to Kill'' (1974 film) or ''Cockfighter'', a film direct ...
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Viet Boyz
The Vietnamese people ( vi, người Việt, lit=Viet people) or Kinh people ( vi, người Kinh) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day Northern Vietnam and Southern China (Jing Islands, Dongxing, Guangxi). The native lang ...
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Dragon Family
A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as ...
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sT's BoYz
One of the most powerful of all the Asian gangs in California and Los Angeles taking over all Wah Chings extortion racquets in Chinatown.
See also
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Boat People
Vietnamese boat people ( vi, Thuyền nhân Việt Nam), also known simply as boat people, refers to the refugees who fled Vietnam by boat and ship following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. This migration and humanitarian crisis was at its h ...
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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 ...
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Overseas Vietnamese
Overseas Vietnamese ( vi, người Việt hải ngoại, or ) refers to Vietnamese people who live outside Vietnam. There are approximately 5 million overseas Vietnamese, the largest community of whom live in the Vietnamese Americans, Unite ...
References
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External links
* Information on Vietnamese-American Gang
* The Dream Shattered By Peter Van Do - discusses Vietnamese Adolescent Gang
* The Dragon Family Gan
Overseas Vietnamese organizations in the United States, *
Vietnamese
Vietnamese may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia
** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam.
* Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam
** Overse ...