Jimmy Patel-Nguyen ::
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"I was the first one in my family to go to a four-year university, and I had no idea I was going to become a doctor. Early on in undergrad it was just a light thought in my head. It wasn’t until my sophomore year when I solidified my decision. During that year, my grandparents got sick and I took...
Jimmy Patel-Nguyen ::
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"I had the balls to ask, 'Are there any boxing gloves for women?' Beyond bubble-gum pink gloves, there wasn’t. The business idea was revealed to me because of my students and the women I trained with, and I figured, 'What do I have to lose?' That’s always been my mindset when starting my business. It’s been four years since..."
Jimmy Patel-Nguyen ::
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"One time there was a bad storm, and my dad woke us up to check on the farm. There always has to be electricity because chickens need ventilation and little chicks need a lot of heat. On that night, the power went out and the generator didn't kick on. Usually when you walk into a chicken house, the chickens are...
Jimmy Patel-Nguyen ::
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"We usually think of history as something that is state organized—you need a nation state that has archives as institutions, they write the history books, and distribute them through schools. But history-writing has never been a neutral project. Because the state of South Vietnam does not exist after 1975, the question becomes: how do stateless communities continue to organize their history?"
Jimmy Patel-Nguyen ::
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“Before we [could] get into Philippine waters…we [had] to lower our South Vietnam flag, and put up the American flag on our ship…We [sang] our South Vietnamese anthem—for the last time—to lower it down. Everybody was very emotional. It [was] no longer our country."
