Vietnamese

Thu MacKenzie and Madison Bau are freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

Racist taunts tested their friendship, but this Clinton supporter and her Trump-backer pal are in it for the long haul

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These Wisconsin college buddies don’t see eye to eye on presidential politics. And that never seemed to get in the way until a Trump rally on their campus last week ratcheted up tensions.

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Memories of fleeing Vietnam, landing in Idaho and asking people for candy

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The Truong family arrived to the United States not long after fleeing Vietnam in 1975, when the then-capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, fell to the North Vietnamese army. Thu-Thuy Truong, far right, places bunny ears above her brother, Sy.

New to America, this young Vietnamese refugee wanted to ‘erase’ his past

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