Vietnamese youth say Tết is a reminder about ‘resilience’

Vietnamese youth say Tết is a reminder about ‘resilience’

High school junior Maya Do spent the weeks leading up to today’s kickoff of Tet tucking crisp bills into red envelopes, picking ao dai dresses to wear with friends and preparing a speech to deliver to hundreds at her first protest. Do, 16, was born in Vietnam. Her mother immigrated to the United States in the 1980s. Her father, along with countless Viet Kieu refugees, found a pathway to U.S. citizenship and a home in Orange County after Saigon’s…