In this drawing i selected the little saigon doll wearing the red ao dai dress as my subject and the pile of trash beside a brick wall as the setting. Migrating to the U.S. Vietnamese immigrants quickly recognized the necessity to adopt American consumerist behaviors and beliefs in order to attain a stable living. Those unable to adopt found themselves in impoverished conditions, forced to reside in ghettos. I used the trash surrounding the doll to depict their living conditions. The brick wall serves to show Americas rejection of invading Vietnamese customs displaying the external pressures to assimilate. The male protagonist in
Everything Must Go throws the doll away, symbolism of him metaphorically tossing his beliefs away.
-Jose G.
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