Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

When I was growing up, I cared very little for the customs of my parents, the special things that we're supposed to do as Vietnamese people. But now that I am a parent, I go out of my way to make sure that my son goes to visit his grandparents and participates in customs like the Lunar New Year celebration.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.