Lovelife’s Weblog

Immigrating from any foreign country, to America, is not easy.  For K. Oanh Ha, living in a crowded 3 bedroom apartment with twelve other family members was what she settled for in order to live her dream of being an “American.”  It was tough breaking from her strict Vietnamese traditions that her parents enforced, but being the normal American kid was all the mattered to her.  Going out was a huge ordeal, because she had to beg her parents to let her, and find someone to babysit.  K. Oanh Ha had eventually lost her accent, and claims she was just as American as her finance, who was an American, where she met at UCLA.  Although she would always have Vietnamese in her blood, moving to California and living there for twenty years helped her identify  herself as a Vietnamese-American.  Meeting her finance at UCLA, she was thankful she had college to turn too and finally get out and move on.  I think sooner or later, everyone should experience was it is like to live in the United States, and live the “American dream.”  With all of the opportunity we offer, everyone deserves a chance to succeed.

The amount of people with AIDs all over the world is extremely overwhelming.  AIDs is transmitted sexually, by food, water, air or other means.  Although, the epidemic is most common in African countries, the most likely source of the virus comes from U.S. homosexuals.  After reading Katzs’ article, it opened my eyes to the scary disease and made me wonder.  If women in Africa need to exchange sex inorder to get the material things she needs to survive, how is that fair?  I think more actions need to be taken in helping these women get what they need, without the risk of being infected with HIV/AIDs.  Because the women are more vulnerable than the men, deaths are usually what result in the end.  With just so much as water and sanitation, it could reduce the high rate of vulnerability to other diseases along with AIDs in African countries.  The fact that AIDs in spread so easily, scares me.  The rate of people infected goes up every year which is shocking.  When are people going to learn the consequences of their actions, and think before they act?  I think the first step for people to take, is to get tested, and have their significant other get tested as well.  Knowing is better than not knowing.