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In a Strange Land: Israel's Vietnamese Community |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
| Author: Bill Strubbe |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,050 Words, 12,276 Characters |
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Tali and her family are among the estimated 350 Vietnamese who live in Israel. The majority live in Bat Yam, located a few miles south of Tel Aviv, and most work in the restaurant and hotel industry. More than half the Vietnamese Israelis are ethnic Chinese, but even those cultural roots are fading quickly as the younger generation is absorbed into Israeli society.
"Because I married an Israeli woman, our two children, aged five and eight, are Jewish," says Dan Tran, a Buddhist who has no intentions of converting to Judaism. "We try to teach them about Chinese culture, but the moment they're in school or with their friends, they're totally Israeli. It's not something that overly concerns me. After all, they're Israelis now."
An appeal to goodwill
This curious juxtaposition of peo...
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...are among the Vietnamese. Le Quong and his wife have not converted either, but their daughters, Israela, fifteen, and Kinneret, ten, were both born in Israel and are full citizens. "I chose those names because I wanted to show appreciation to this country that took us in with open arms," says Le Quong said."We are happy here, and I feel now that I am a little son in the big family of Israel."
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