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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 34
Sign: Taurus

City: Los Angeles
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/25/2007

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 

Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes
Saibaidee, Saibaidee Pinong Pinay...I am searching for the Lao-Americans in this country. I am searching for the local ones here in Los Angeles right here in the Southern California. Where are you? If you are out there, I ask you, I beg you to come on out. I want to hear your voices. I want to know you. I want to bond and share our common experiences together. This is our time. This is our chance to let other people know our rich stories and experiences. Our ethnic identity is so unique and we have so much to offer to others. I want us to shine and be lit up with pride. Be Lao'd, be proud!

I am a Lao-American who was born in Savannakhet, Laos. My family fled to the United States to escape the war torn homeland. We resettled in the state of Hawaii after a short stay in a Thai refugee camp and after the communist takeover in South East Asia during the late 70's and early 80's. Everyone knows that period as the Vietnam War era...many Laotians know that period as the era of change. All over the world the refugees of Laos have been resettled globally. We have been spread like ashes to fend for ourselves. We have survived after 30+ odd years and where are we now. That's what I like to know.

I am an actor living in Los Angeles. Refugee Nation is a collaborative project lead by my partner, Leilani Chan and I, we are searching for stories from the national Lao community to lift up the voices of a community that rarely roars. I want us to roar!

Where in Laos do you come from? What is your story? Let me know. Contact me. I want to know.
Refugee Nation

 
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Posted by Refugee Nation on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 3:50 AM
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Lao Ocean / Tiger Of the North
Brandon Daranouvongs

 
my name is Anusone Brandon Daranouvongs. i was bron in vientiane laos on march 1, 1976, one year after the revolutionary took over of the lao royal famliy. My Father Lieutenant Colonel Edward Thongkham Daranouvongs of the royal lao army was trick by the communist government. they took him by force to a labor camp in the northern part of laos.
there were no contact of any kind from an outside world, not even family.
they told him that they will reeducate the new system to him, and release him in a few months, months turns to years, years turns to one decade.he has to stay strong physically and mentally in order for him to keep alive this long he told me, but it was hard.
when they finally release him after 12 long years ..he came back to vientiane and said this is no long my country..they took everything from us...my father took my sister and i and escape to thailand refugee camp.. long story short..thats how we out here.

there's more to this but just gotta make it short :)

thanks for listening.
 
Posted by Lao Ocean / Tiger Of the North on Sunday, June 10, 2007 - 5:07 AM
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