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CONTENT WARNING:
Mentions of weapons, violent situations, and situations
that may be distressing
INFORMANT/NARRATOR: NIEM NAY-KRET (NN)
INTERVIEWER: SUE J. KIM (SK)
DATE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
SPEAKER
DETAILS
TIME
SK 00:00:02
Okay, right, so this is Sue Kim, I am the co-director for the Center for Asian American
Studies. Today is September 15th 2019, and I am with Niem Nay-Kret at the College of
Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Science office at 820 Broadway Street in Lowell,
Massachusetts. How are you today?
NN 00:00:34
I'm good thank you.
SK 00:00:37
So today we're going to start with some general questions about you and your life and
then we'll go into some questions focusing specifically on healthcare, okay?
SK 00:00:47
So firstly, what is your full name?
NN 00:00:50
My full name is Niem, the English pronunciation is Nie, but actually if it's a French
accenté there, it's Niem Nay-Kret.
SK 00:01:01
Oh, and have you gone by any other names?
NN 00:01:08
No, just that. I keep my original name, because you know how when you spell the
Cambodian name into the English, or into the French, you kind of lost that pronunciation
bit-by-bit.
SK 00:01:26
When were you born? If you are willing to share, also where were you born? You don't
have to share that, when were you born, but where were you born?
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NN 00:01:35
I'm going to skip when I was born.
SK 00:01:37
Okay.
NN 00:01:38
I want to be 21 forever. So where I was born, I was born in Cambodia, Battambang
province, right now they call it Banteay Meanchey province. It's a city at the border, it's
at Sisophon and Niemith is exactly the crossing between Thai and Cambodia.
SK 00:02:10
Did you grow up there?
NN 00:02:12
I grew up there before the Pol Pot came in, in 1975.
SK 00:02:19
All right, and so you experienced ...? Were you there during the Khmer Rouge?
NN 00:02:25
Yeah, I was there during the Khmer Rouge. My family was totally believe in the life in
Cambodia, born there, grew up there, couldn't leave the country. Help other people who
wanted to leave the country, and they left, but for us, we just couldn't leave the country.
SK 00:02:55
You mean even after ...?
NN 00:02:57
Even before.
SK 00:02:58
Or even before ...?
NN 00:02:58
Uh-huh (affirmative).
SK 00:02:59
... as it was-
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NN 00:02:59
The people who experienced that Mao Zedong, the communist, they immigrate from
China to Cambodia, and when they immigrate to Cambodia, they have their life there.
Some of the elder who make a very good life for themself in Cambodia, but have
experienced communist in China, when they came and stayed with my families, before
they crossed the border, because we wereat the border between Thailand and Cambodia,
they stay with us, they suggested to my parents, "You guys should leave." Communists
is, you know?
SK 00:03:44
Yeah.
NN 00:03:45
It's a hard life, and the life you know is not going to be the same.
SK 00:03:50
This was in the late 60s, early 70s?
NN 00:03:56
Early 70s. Just before, even before the fall in April. April 1975 was the fall into the
communist. They stayed with us, many different families came overSK 00:04:11
I see.
NN 00:04:11
... to stay with us overnight and then they leave from there to cross the border. So that
was a suggestion to my parents, but my parents say, "No, nothing's going to be as bad as
that. We will make it through. We have our farming here, we have our business here, we
have our life here."
SK 00:04:33
Wow. When did you leave Cambodia?
NN 00:04:47
We stay there. We leave Cambodia for a month, went to Thailand. Just the women, my
mom and my sister, we went to Thailand to stay for one month, but then when they have
the fall of Phnom Penh, it went into the communists.
SK 00:05:09
Right, April 1975?
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NN 00:05:11
Yeah, and they put on the radio that Cambodia is free now, you can come in. They make
that announcement, so the moment we hear about that announcement, we think, okay, it's
safe.
SK 00:05:24
Oh my God!
NN 00:05:26
We actually went back in, all the women went back to Cambodia. So we went in back in
and it's only a week or so, they came to each individual home and tell us to get out and
that's when it's really started.
SK 00:05:42
Oh my gosh.
NN 00:05:44
Yeah, so, that's why it's like, we was not as lucky as the other people, my family and the
people who knew my father, who actually helped other people to get out of Cambodia.
And when they get out, they don't return. But where my mom and my sibling, we actually
went back in to the start of the communists.
SK 00:06:07
Oh my God! Oh my goodness. So you were there then through the whole thing?
NN 00:06:12
Yep, through the whole thing, until 1980.
SK 00:06:16
Wow. Do you mind if I ask, how many of your family survived?
NN 00:06:24
Actually my immediate family are lucky, we didn't lose anyone. My mom have any
pregnancy she has during that time, I think she had three or four, she lost the pregnancy
through that time. But outside of that, no, I didn't lose any immediate family, but my
cousins, we lost my cousin, her husband, and then on my husband's side, we lost a lot of
... like the whole families, my father-in-law. So there was more impact on my other side
of my husband's family.
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SK 00:07:18
So in 1979, 1980, when the communist's regime falls to the Vietnamese communist
regime, so then what? I mean, what happened? Were you refugees or what happened
then?
NN 00:07:35
Because I was in Battambang province, I was as Me Chbar. Me Chbar is part of
Battambang province. Me Chbar is the city that's close to the ... We call it Khnal Cheate,
which is like the main, we call it a highway, the main road going in and out all the way to
Phnom Penh. I was there and then you hear the shooting, you hear the shooting. We don't
have radio, we don't have any communication.
NN 00:08:12
I think now it's like in 2019, you take so much advantage of the technologies and
everything, but back then you just go by what you see and you hear the ... What was it?
The missile, the shooting and all that, so that day, that night, I remember what day, what
night, but all I know it was in that 79 and I didn't know anything, but you got scared,
you're just running. People all got separated and all that. Then because I was separated
from my parents, I have to look for my parents. All my siblings was separated.
NN 00:08:56
Then it's like, who is running to come back to look for the parent? And when you look for
your parent, will you find your parent? So for me, I wasn't too far away, so I know where
my mom was, so I went back home and then after that, you have to wait to get all your
family, which is missing my brother, is missing my sister. My father had to look for my
sister, and as the Vietnamese came in, some of them the people who are really into the
regime, they would ask you to go into fighting, part of the troop, the fighting troop, and
they made wherever the troop go, you got to go. That's the worry, is that my brother went
with the troop, my sister went with the troop. They went off to different part of the
mountain in the rural area, that was a worry.
NN 00:09:52
If you're smart enough, if you know enough how to sneak out or get out, then you do. But
if you're so into the cause, the propaganda, then you continue, which is some people do
continue to along the border with Thailand, to Vietnam, or to Laos, and along the border
in the rural area. You're still part of the troop, you're still fighting with Vietnamese
soldier.
SK 00:10:24
Right, so how then did you end up coming to the United States? Or let me put it this way,
when did you come to the United States?
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NN 00:10:35
Because the invasion was in January, so by the time we found my brothers and my sister,
we were trying to come close to the border in Sisophon to cross from Sisophon to
Thailand but we couldn't just cross, right?
SK 00:10:58
Right.
NN 00:10:59
And the village that we lived in, that was just outside of Sisophon. When we went back,
our home was completely changed, converted and you don't really have your home, you
don't really have your garden, your porch or anything like that. Porch, anything like that.
So we know we couldn't live there, so we want to get out, you didn't feel safe, and you
could still hear fighting between the Khmer Rouge troop and the Vietnamese soldier. So
then my father feels that we have to get out.
NN 00:11:32
Finally, we did left, I think, I don't remember the exact month now, because we had only
been to ... You know how here, you write down, put the day and the month, right now?
Nope, back then it was no, not really, no writing, no tracking. Somewhere in there we
actually did went to Thailand and it was ... They didn't even start the refugee camp yet.
SK 00:11:55
Oh wow.
NN 00:11:56
But then what happened was that, when we got there, I don't know how many weeks we
stayed, four week, five weeks or whatever and then the Thai who was in charge along the
border, they said that they're going to change us, relocate us to a different camp. They
wanted to relocate us to a different camp and for everybody to get on the bus. That was
when we crossed the border, we crossed in, where was it? In Nong Chan village. I think
that's close to Anonh, just across the border, close to Baoybet.
NN 00:12:41
We actually did, we actually get on the bus and I don't know how many buses, there was
a lot of buses. They actually took us to Phanom Dong Rak. That was forced repatriations
in 1979 and when ... I'm backing up a little bit. When I was talking about the village, I
said it was not safe, because they have mine, the have bomb, they have things like that
and if you're not careful, you could set off the bomb.
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NN 00:13:16
So crossing the border, the same thing. Was it? I can remember like seeing body, I
remember seeing the body actually die in the water and you needed the waters to drink,
that's in the ... It was a poor little pond along the border. I think those are the things that
I've seen. And then once you get into the ... It's not a camp yet because they didn't really
start a camp yet in Nong Chan. It's just people get there and you make up tents and all
that. You're living there and then they said that they have a different camp relocation.
That's when they relocated us to Phanom Dong Rak.
SK 00:14:01
I see.
NN 00:14:02
And when we were took to Phanom Dong Rak, but it wasn't really relocation, it was
forced repatriation. They have Thai soldier ask us to go into the Phanom Dong Rak and
we do went through Phanom Dong Rak, which is, you go in between the mountain ...
What do you call it? The slope down ravine, like go down the mountain, but I backup
because of the mine bomb and the same thing. So when they force us for repatriation, it
was the bomb, the mine that could set us off and it did.
NN 00:14:50
The people who got off the first few buses, and it gets dark, and when the Sun set in
Southeast Asia, it set quickly. So as we go down, we were just like getting dusk and then
when you go down the mountain, it gets dark even quicker. And you have the Thai
soldier shoot off up at the top of the mountain and you have no way, you can't go up, you
have to go down. And you go down, then you have the bombs setting off. All I remember
is being scared. Scared.
SK 00:15:28
Yeah, I know, you must have been terrified?
NN 00:15:29
Yeah. And it was so dark. It was so dark. That happened, forced repatriations and it took
us a long time, because we pretty much ... You lost your home and everything during the
communists. You have whatever little that you have. Even an earring or jewelry, you lost
more when you crossed the border of Thailand.
NN 00:16:00
Any research or anything like that on war, you always have people who would take
opportunity. When you crossed the border, you'd either get mugged, you get people who
rob you and like that, so that happened along the way. Even during that mountain time,
people felt that if we all gather whatever little possessions we have, it was gold, a bag,
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money or anything like that, if you give it to the soldier, the soldier might let you back
up, but they didn't. But people did gather whatever possessions they had, put it in a
bucket, trying to get back up, they wouldn't accept that. The people who actually went
back up, actually get killed as well.
NN 00:16:46
So if you go forward, some of them get killed by mines that went off, some people get
injury, so we stay overnight in the mountain. At night, people know that the bomb go off,
so they try just to settle down where they are, but in the morning, people start moving,
then you hear it go off. People need the water, people need this, they need that, and yeah,
so that happened.
NN 00:17:17
I think talking about current now, the books [inaudible 00:17:23], Ly Vong from the
Buddhist Glory Temple, with some Kakuen and Vong Wit and others, so that kind of
related to that experience. And I know that others, elders who are here, who actually went
through that experience. I think some of their story isn't, you know, they didn't get to talk,
but it's hard to talk about.
SK 00:17:51
Yes, it is.
NN 00:17:58
It only come up now and then when a close getting together and some night that people
have the same whatever, it would come up.
SK 00:18:10
Right, right, the same memories or experiences?
NN 00:18:13
Yeah, the same memories, the same experiences. Also, it's just, the time is right or
something, like you know, then it comes up. I mentioned this because my friend was
talking about it. She knows somebody and then other people say, "I know about it", and
talk about it. Even my husband's side, the aunts and all that, we don't talk about it, but
there are moments where we have a gathering and we remember things about what
happened, then it comes up.
SK 00:18:44
And that's why the work that you do is so important, because people have all these
trauma and memories, but they don't ... It's so difficult to talk about.
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NN 00:18:55
Yes, yes, it's difficult to talk about. You can't really talk to the kids about it. You cannot
... It's somebody who has that same knowledge about what happened, that you can bring
it up and then you say, oh this, and that, but you bring it in a certain way so that it's not so
much of a burden to you or to the others, but more like a memory, sharing our remember
things of it, appreciating what we have now and what happened then. I think sometime
that conversation come up, where the people who are a little bit older than me, when
those come up and say ... example, about the food. That come up a lot, because of the
starvation during the communists, right?
SK 00:19:52
Right.
NN 00:19:53
So about the food, but the food here is, you cannot eat too much. When we have plenty,
it's plenty. In our culture, our tradition is to be nice, you offer, "Have some of the
chicken. Have some of the rice." And they will say, "Why didn't I know you during
communist during Pol Pot?" "If you offer me that, it's like you will be my best friend
forever, you know?" "Why didn't I know you then?" You know?
SK 00:20:22
Uh-huh (affirmative).
NN 00:20:24
So I think that latent you know, but the one that we share that experience, we know what
we're talking about. The people whom did not go through this, might have different
perceptions or understandings to it.
NN 00:20:37
But for the older, yeah, uh-huh (affirmative), yeah.
SK 00:20:38
Is that part of why you went into healthcare? I mean ... you know, I mean? Or, I'll put it
another way, how did you get into healthcare? Or what started you onNN 00:20:53
Well in terms of healthcare, somehow I did, what was it? A summer job at a hospital, at
St. Mary hospital and well just, a summer student, to enter data, general accounting, just
entering numbers, the general account, and was in a hospital. Then from there, I didn't
think much about it, but when I was looking for a job, my husband was working for the
Department of Mental Retardation, now which is the ... They changed it, was it in 2007
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or 2011? I forgot now, but they changed it from DMR to DDS, Department of
Developmental Services.
NN 00:21:56
So my husband was working in that field and I had just met him and he said, "Oh, there's
a South East Asian Birthing, Infancy project, which is a pilot project in collaboration with
the local community health center and the Department of Public Health, they probably
need somebody." And they wanted somebody who speaks multiple language. And I said,
"Maybe I'll apply for it", and I applied for another job, they interview me, so I applied for
this South East Asian Bilingual Advocates Inc and they hired me for reception, admin
front-desk person and that's how I started.
SK 00:22:44
That was in 2007, 2008?
NN 00:22:44
No, that was in 94.
NN 00:22:44
Yeah, andSK 00:22:44
That's when they changed, towardsNN 00:22:44
Yes.
SK 00:22:44
Towards when they changed the name. I see.
NN 00:22:44
Yeah, this was when they changed the name, because it was just like, Infancy Projects
and then to the ... Bilingual Advocates Inc, changed to Bilingual later on.
SK 00:23:07
I see.
NN 00:23:08
Yeah, but in 2007 it's changed to Bilingual. Before that, in 94, it was not. And that was
directed by Anita Cole, and, who was it?, Bong Paul, was co-director for the program.
And back then it was Arthur Shaplin who was the CEO of the Lowell Community Health
Center. That was before Dorcas' time.
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SK 00:23:33
Arthur Shaplin?
NN 00:23:34
Yes.
SK 00:23:35
I see. So were you already in Lowell? So you were already in Lowell at that point in
1994?
NN 00:23:41
Yeah, I was in ... Well working in Lowell, a little company and in Lowell, but I was
actually living in Brighton. That's where I first landed was in Brighton and my husband's
been in Brighton ever since, because he was teachingSK 00:23:57
I see.
NN 00:23:58
... yeah, at the Boston High over there, before he was working for the DMR, DDS or ...
yeah.
SK 00:24:07
I see, so initially it was a summer job at St. Mary's Hospital, just data entry and then you
learned that SABAI, is it South East Asian Bilingual Advocates Incorporated?
NN 00:24:19
Inc, yes.
SK 00:24:21
... They were looking for someone in 1994. So you started ... Did you say that their initial
name was different? Or thatNN 00:24:29
It wasSK 00:24:30
Birthing?
NN 00:24:30
... Birthing and Infancy Project.
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SK 00:24:33
Oh, South East Asian Birthing and Infancy Project?
NN 00:24:36
Yeah, it was only a pilot program.
SK 00:24:38
I see.
NN 00:24:38
Because of the low birth rate or not accessing pre-natal care by a lot of Southeast Asian.
They started that because they wanted, you know, here the healthcare is that, when you
are pregnant, that first trimester, you want to get people in right?
SK 00:24:57
Right.
NN 00:24:58
The second trimester, third trimester, you're trying to get people in there as soon as
possible for pre-natal care. And a lot of Cambodians, they don't access it, unless you have
complications, you have problems, issues, then you access. If you have really bad
morning sickness, and you're totally not able to function, yes, but if you are a functioning
person, you are able to work, and all that, and you don't even want to anybody that you're
pregnant ...?
SK 00:25:28
Right, right, right, right.
NN 00:25:28
... So, uh-huh (affirmative), uh-huh (affirmative), and then you may not even mention it
until late. If you have a physical check-up, then the doctor said, "Oh, are you pregnant?"
You know? All those, the standard American westerner medical care is that you have a
physical check-up, right? Any changes that you have, you go see your doctor. But
traditionally, we don't.
SK 00:25:55
I see.
NN 00:25:57
And also, if anything then, you know, you do that home culture, like making sure that
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SK 00:26:14
Right, right, under a doctor care, right?
NN 00:26:15
Yeah, not under a doctor care. That's why they did the projects.
SK 00:26:22
And this was a collaboration between Lowell Community Health Center and the
Department of Public Health?
NN 00:26:27
Yeah, and that program is because we needed that 501(C)(3) thing, so that's why it was
under a program, under the local community health center.
SK 00:26:37
So when you started working there, what was it like? I mean, how big was it? How
people respond to it?
NN 00:26:43
It was small. It was small, I'm trying to think how many people, four, five, six
caseworkers and I think the other one was the Lead Program, they kind of shared the
same building at 280 Appleton Street.
SK 00:26:59
What was it? The Lead?
NN 00:27:00
This was at 280. Lead Program.
SK 00:27:02
What's that?
NN 00:27:02
The Lead Program, when the child, they eat the painting from the house and they get lead
poisoning.
SK 00:27:11
Right, like literally lead, right?
NN 00:27:13
Yeah, lead poisoning, yeah. Because there was two programs, and it was shared at the
same building.
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SK 00:27:19
Oh, I see. How did it work? How did you get the word out into the community? Did
people come?
NN 00:27:29
Back then, I can remember volunteering at the church where we have Project Bread, they
bring food, things like that and we give out to the community. We do a home visit, we
talk to people at the temple, we talk with people we know, distribute the flyers that is
mixed, we have both in English and Khmer, and distribute that, talking to people and it's
by word-of-mouth, people came.
NN 00:28:00
Then some of the coworker I know, some of them are assigned to helping at the Lowell
General, actually helping with interpreting for the patients. Back then, because the ...
What was it? They don't have an interpreter law yet. I think the interpreter law came in,
in 2007 I think ... if I remember correctly.
NN 00:28:39
Before that, you don't have it. You don't have somebody who, you know, an interpreter at
the Lowell General Hospital. You don't have that.
SK 00:28:48
Part of it was providing basic services, like interpreting?
NN 00:28:50
Yes, basics, yeah, interpreting, uh-huh (affirmative), uh-huh (affirmative), for social
services. For us, the pilot program was supposed to be really concentrated on pre-natal
care, but then you don't do just pre-natal care. You come across, I can remember an
elderly man who didn't understand about utility, and he needed help to translate what it is
that, you know, what he's paying, what is due. He didn't have enough, even for food, how
he was going to pay for the food, electricity, things like that, and it's become, pre-natal
care and social services and getting people connected to Food Pantry.
SK 00:29:38
I see.
NN 00:29:39
And then education, you know? A lot of case management. I say case management
because you might be helping the pregnant woman, but then there's the other part of the
family, and then the other knowing the other issues that was happening with other
marginalized people in the community.
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What do you mean? Like the other ...?
NN 00:30:04
When I said others, it could be like the people who are working and they become
unemployed and they're not really not sure how to apply and they get letter, they get the
pink slip, what do they do next? Where do they go next? Some know, some don't. It's a
lot about word-of-mouth.
NN 00:30:23
Then if they know us, they come to us. If they know somebody who's working at the
department assistance center, then they go there. So sometimes you have a different
connection and then they came to us with those questions, because the landlord issues,
they cannot afford it, they're not able to pay it, then what do they do next?
SK 00:30:55
So it's finding, once people knew that you were there, once people knew SABAI was
there as a resource, even though it started as pre-natal, it's like everything else became ...
ask for help?
NN 00:31:08
Yeah. And our thinking was, because it was different from the Cambodian Mutual
Assistance Association, we was concentrating on women's health and pre-natal care.
SK 00:31:18
I see.
NN 00:31:19
That's what we were thinking. But the people goes to whoever they connects to, they trust
and by word-of-mouth, who's telling them about it. So for those who know about the
CMAA, they go to CMAA, but for those who know through the woman, they come to us,
through the woman and that's how it got built up, we were more concentrating on health,
but then for the CMAA, it was concentrating on everything else, helping immigrant and
refugee, helping people access social services.
NN 00:32:01
Ours was okay, women's health, pre-natal care, but then all the other things came with it,
because when the woman came, it's about the woman issues, the pre-natal, but then, by
word-of-mouth getting out that, "Oh this person helped us", "That person helped us", and
then they come to us.
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SK 00:32:21
I see. So most of your clients were women at this time?
NN 00:32:26
That was what we thought, that we would do.
SK 00:32:28
I see.
NN 00:32:28
That we would get 99% woman, but in there somewhere I think we get mixed. Sometime
the man came, sometime the family came, but our concentration was woman, pregnant
woman, reproductive age woman, you know? Any teen pregnant or anything like that,
that would be the one that we were working with.
SK 00:32:54
But you still got a lot of other requests though?
NN 00:32:56
Yes.
SK 00:32:58
I see. In terms of working with women, like pre-natal care, or reproductive services and
stuff like that, what were some of the biggest challenges? I mean, I would imagine, I
mean this is still, this is the 90s, what were some difficulties that you saw often?
NN 00:33:17
The program started a little bit even before the 90s, like late 80s. I don't remember the
exact year, it was 87 or 86 they started it. It was really small, just like two or three
people. Then by the time I joined in 94, that's when we get more to like the six, seven,
eight people.
SK 00:33:41
I see.
NN 00:33:46
And I get in, because one of the, Bong Sambath, she was doing the front desk, but then
she was on maternity leave and then I was covering her, so that's how I started working
there.
SK 00:33:59
I see.
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NN 00:34:03
I think back then, they started the pilot program just because of there was, what was the
tradition that ...? Why wasn't women not accessing pre-natal care? Why are they not
going? What's going on? Why is it the birth rate ...? There was some challenges and also
why is it so low birth, the child that was born, was so, underweightSK 00:34:33
Birth weight.
NN 00:34:33
... weight was so low?
SK 00:34:34
I see, I see.
NN 00:34:35
Was so low? I think it was looking at six pounds, because back then even the average is
more like the seven-something, eight, almost eight pounds. But why the birth weight is so
low? I don't remember what the mortality rate was, but there was some mortality as well.
So I think that miscarriage and all that, soSK 00:34:58
I see.
NN 00:35:01
That remind me go back to my mom, during the communists, she lost, she had so many
miscarriages, and I don't know if like just because when we immigrate to here, is that the
woman, there's more like on my thinking back now, is it why is that women having that?
Is it nutritionally not having enough, the body is not adjusted to living here yet, and
they're not accessing the pre-natal care. I think those were the things that the public
health wanted to be aware of, and that's what we were doing, was doing that educations
and providing information here that you can access pre-natal care.
NN 00:35:51
That first trimester, and then you go on until you actually give birth, because normally we
don't, so that culture, that perceptions, that understanding, from there. So that was, you
know, when you say was it a challenge? I would have said increase understanding and
also then the traditional practice, after you give birth, is that in Cambodia, we always
have when you give birth, you loss blood, so you have that hot and cold. What was it Yin
and Yang? Right?
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SK 00:36:30
Mm-hmm (affirmative).
NN 00:36:31
So after you give birth, you're supposed to stay warm, and to stay warm in Cambodia,
you have that, in Cambodia, in the Cambodian tradition houses, you have the low part of
the house on the ground, but you can actually have a fire in a wooden bed or what you
call it, that you can have fire under, and you will stay over that bed and it will heat it up.
I'm trying to find a word, it's not really a "Bed" bed, because it'sSK 00:37:12
But yeah, no, it's like something over the fire that can be heated?
NN 00:37:14
Yes.
SK 00:37:17
Not too hot, but warm enough.
NN 00:37:18
Yeah, not too hot, but warm enough. And then, that helped you after you give birth and
that's always been the tradition, but then you come here, we don't have that. We don't
have an outdoor, we don't have an under the house ... because the house over there is on a
stilt that you can have it, or even have in an extra, what do you call it? Structure that
connects to the house that you can still have that outside.
SK 00:37:57
So what were women here doing?
NN 00:37:59
That was the thing is, what do the women do? How did they do that thing? The other one
would be like, was it steam, like using the hot steam. You will boil the water with the
different herbs from lemongrass, to basil, to other things, and then there are herbs that are
from China or from Cambodia, they cure for 100 things. That you use it to boil, but you
drink it or you use it so that you can use the steam. ToSK 00:38:39
To breathe it in?
NN 00:38:40
Yeah. Then I think as time goes by, as people are trying to figure out ways to do things,
they use the bricks where they heat up the brick in the oven, and you wrap it around with
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the towel and you put on your stomach, just to give you that warmness and drinking hot
drink, but with the ginger. When I'm talking about the hots and cold, some of the food is
cold and some of the food is hot, ginger being hot, then you might be drinking the ginger.
That and then, what was it? The cupping and coining, those are another tradition. That's
more like for the aches and pains and all that.
NN 00:39:34
Oh yeah, the drink, after giving the birth, they brew the herbs. What is it? Balai? It's
almost like ginger, but it's not ginger, but it's not Galangal either. But it's yellow and what
you do is, you brew it and then you drink it. When you brew it, you brew it with alcohol.
So that was the other concern, what are the women doing in term of the Asian traditions?
SK 00:40:12
Right, because could they get those herbs and those things here?
NN 00:40:22
There are some that was imported from Thailand that was frozen or dry. Some of the
herbs that are from China, that was imported here. So they would try to find that and use
that to brew it.
SK 00:40:39
What was the attitude of the doctors? The non-Asian or the non-Cambodian doctors in
things like that at Lowell General or Lowell Community Health? Did they understand
that they were ...? Like were they trying to understand? Or were they confused? Or were
they just saying like, "This is what you have to do"? What was that ...? I know that the
caseworkers and you are trying to interpret both, interpret language, as well as interpret
culture, right?
NN 00:41:16
Yeah.
SK 00:41:16
But what was theNN 00:41:20
The client doesn't want us to tell or say anything. They just know that the perception,
they just feel that the perception of the western doctors, medical provider, would not
understand it. They have a sense of that, and usually they don't tell. But they might,
because we are the caseworker, bi-cultural and anything like that, they might have said,
"I'm just doing some, you know, drink and that's it. You know about that, but don't tell
them."
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SK 00:41:58
Yay.
NN 00:41:59
We're trying to say what we ... "Don't tell anything unless you ask, want to tell." "We are
supposed to tell the doctors, so the doctor can treat you." I can give one example, when I
mentioned Balai root and brewing, and that is yellow. It's not turmeric okay? But that's
supposed to really help after the delivery.
NN 00:42:33
And what you do is you drink a lot of that and then beside drinking, she put it on, you put
it on like a lotion on your skin, but it will make your skin yellow, and she went to the
doctor, and the doctor see that, it's like, "What is going on?" Did you haveSK 00:42:55
Jaundice?
NN 00:42:56
Yeah, jaundice. "What's going on?" And you say, "Oh nothing." Just like, "No, it's
nothing." "Oh, we need some testing." She's like, "I don't know what happened." But they
order testing on me and until later, one of the girls at the Lowell General, talked to us
later, they were asking what was on my skin, we go through the whole thing and then
they think I have kaet lueng jaundice.
NN 00:43:30
I was telling them, "No, it was a lotion", but it was not a lotion. But then, because it was
brew and alcohol, so that was kind of, finally, and she said, "I think they understand after
explaining again and again and telling them don't, and I'm okay, and not need to lab, but
they actually took the lab. I don't like anybody taking my blood, but they did it."
NN 00:43:57
I think sometimes, that little, western medical doctor, they go by what they, what they
practice, but the mother and the grandmother, who's helping with the daughter who give
birth, is saying, "It's our thing." They say, "Don't tell them, it's ours. We do it, this is the
tradition." That's what her grandparents did.
SK 00:44:23
How did you feel? Because you're in between, how did that make you feel when you're in
the situation like this?
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When that thing happened, I wasn't there at the Lowell General, I was hearing it
afterward when I was doing home visits. So I would kind of listen and was asking them
how they feel and do they understand why? And they said, "No, I was upset when it was
happening." But then I’m… you know. "But it's okay, it's okay, but you just tell them you
know?"
NN 00:44:57
She said she drinks the ... I was afraid that there was a community of drinking too much
alcohol and they might do something and it seems wording was going around. So,
especially in the early 90s, because in Boston, an agency called MICAS, connected with
the DDS, no, DSS, I'm forgetting the acronymSK 00:45:24
What is it?
NN 00:45:25
The Department of Social Services.
SK 00:45:26
And what is MICAS?
NN 00:45:28
MICAS, they work with the Department of Social Services.
SK 00:45:32
How do you spell that? M-A- ?
NN 00:45:35
M-I-C-A-S, was it, MICAS? Yeah.
SK 00:45:38
M-I-C-A-S.
NN 00:45:39
Oh my God! That's the whole thing, Pu Sanith know more. Pu Sanith work there. He
worked with all the other people. But the thing is, when you work with the Department of
Social Services, DCF, now, it's DCF.
SK 00:45:56
I see.
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NN 00:45:57
It is, you get reporting for child negligence or issues and problems, things like that.
SK 00:46:05
I read an earlier interview with you from 2006 where you talk about like the cupping, and
then sometimes if children get reported toNN 00:46:12
Yes, yes. That go with that, okay?
SK 00:46:17
I see.
NN 00:46:20
If you're working, right, in Cambodia it's like you go to the farm, the kid might be at the
house, but you don't have ... You know, you cannot leave a six years old at home by
themself here.
NN 00:46:35
But, over there, you do and you have the neighbors keep an eye on them or whatever. Or
if anything happened, you already tell the kid and the kid is knowledgeable enough to go
over to the neighbors, right?
SK 00:46:46
Yes.
NN 00:46:47
But here it's completely different, and even the medical treatment, going back into the
cupping and coining, it's like when a child is not feeling well, because of the Yin and
Yang, you want to get that hot, blood circulation, things like that, then you do the
cupping, you do the coining. To get rid of, whether it's the headaches or the dizzy spell or
whatever, that's what you do.
SK 00:47:15
My aunt does it all the time.
NN 00:47:17
Yeah, and I was just speaking with my friend, whose mom is now 80, and she wants
cupping all the time. She wants cupping all the time. And you're thinking like, when you
do too much, it's not good. You want to do something to make you feel better, but not too
much.
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NN 00:47:40
But the fact that she's 80, she's like, you know, sometimes she's having onset dementia,
you know, she'll forget and she'll still want it again.
SK 00:47:48
Oh! Oh.
NN 00:47:49
Yeah, and she'll want it again, and that becomes like, how much do you give and how
much are you arguing with your mother, who's having onset dementia and she's not
feeling well and you want her to feel well? It's always tradition that she's doing it. So how
much do you want to give?
SK 00:48:11
So SABAI started maybe early on, like later 80s?
NN 00:48:16
Yes.
SK 00:48:17
And then you started there in 1994 and then it changed to South East AsianNN 00:48:24
Bilingual Advocates.
SK 00:48:25
... Bilingual Advocates in 2007 or so?
NN 00:48:29
No, that was in 2000.
SK 00:48:30
2000?
NN 00:48:31
No, yeah, in 2000. So I was in… In 94, I was the South East Asian Birthing and Infancy
project for a year and then I went to work with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.
Doctor Richard Mallika and Doctor Kathleen Alder and the social worker Jim Lavelle,
which is providing mental health services. The Indo-Chinese Psychiatry Clinic, which is
including providing services for the Southeast Asian from Cambodia, from Laos, and
from Vietnam.
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SK 00:49:18
So is that when your work with mental health started or ...?
NN 00:49:21
Yes. That's more my work on mental health. So from pregnancy to mental health, and
even that, I was more in front-desk receptions. But I did some group with Doctor
Kathleen doing a medication group, just helping integrate a little bit, and helping with the
elders that came for the services.
SK 00:49:50
And this is with the mental health ... The Harvard Refugee Trauma Group or the SABAI?
NN 00:49:54
The Indo-Chinese Psychiatry Clinic.
SK 00:49:57
Indo-Chinese Psychiatry Clinic, and was that in Cambridge or ...?
NN 00:50:02
That was at the Deaconess Hospital. Deaconess Hospital later merged with ... What was
it? Merged with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, it became B-I, Beth IsraelSK 00:50:29
Oh yeah. Beth Israel somethingNN 00:50:32
Deaconess, right. It's in my mind it's like, B-I-D-M-C, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center.
SK 00:50:41
I see.
NN 00:50:42
So when they merged.
SK 00:50:45
So there you were helping with trauma?
NN 00:50:52
Mm-hmm (affirmative).
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Was it mostly elders or all ages?
NN 00:50:55
It was elders. See it's called the Indo-Chinese Psychiatry Clinic, Indo-Chinese Psychiatry
Clinic.
SK 00:51:09
And this is like in the mid-90s, right?
NN 00:51:11
Yeah.
SK 00:51:11
1995 or so?
NN 00:51:12
Uh-huh (affirmative), yeah. And the Indo-Chinese Psychiatry Clinic, is part of the
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.
SK 00:51:19
I see, I see.
NN 00:51:21
You see? And the one that if you search now, you will find that the Harvard Program in
Refugee Trauma, which is up in Cambridge now.
SK 00:51:31
I see.
NN 00:51:31
Okay? It was between Cambridge and then it was in the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center, when it was in there, it's the Indo-Chinese Psychiatry Clinic.
SK 00:51:45
I see.
NN 00:51:47
So changes over the years.
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That one, it was people who came in with trauma, people who go through during the war.
It was all different ... It's an adult clinic, so it was adult only. I think it was a lot of older
women, or the soldier who had gone through the war. I am not, because we have social
workers that do therapy, they go through the screening. They have the Harvard Program
Refugee Trauma checklist questionnaire screening that they use to screen doing its
intake. I know we have up to 750 people so ...
SK 00:53:05
And were the clients usually referred by someone else, or did they just find it by word-ofmouth? How did they come? How did they find you?
NN 00:53:14
It was referred from different people, by word-of-mouth, the family that have problems. I
can think of a family who have a young man, because he, the young man was not doing
well and he was supposed to attend school, but he's not attending and it was having, you
know, create problem for the parents. The sister who was doing well was finishing her
high school, going into college. I was trying to help the parents, so I brought him in, he
needed psychiatric services, while they're having schizophrenia symptoms and all that,
get him to services.
NN 00:54:12
Then there was, a Vietnamese man who, he was not able to function, he was not able to
sleep, he's going to work, but not able to work and the family brought him in. I heard by
other people, and brought him in, see if they can help him. He was having bad back flash
into what he was doing, as a soldier, and that's how he get into services. So by word-ofmouth, by the family knowing somebody who knows somebody and talking to other
people. That and by the doctors who know that needing that ... because of the language
and they know that it's hard for them to see that patient, then they heard about the IndoChinese Psychiatry Clinic then they refer them always.
SK 00:55:23
I see.
NN 00:55:25
And also the psychiatrist working with the international institute, working with the
Dorchester Health, the Lynn Health Center, different parts of the city. Even get connected
to the local community health center. I know we did, was it, and doing advocacy with the
Department of Mental Health. Even back then, the department of mental health had the
bi-cultural, bilingual directory. They have it way back, starting in, I think even in the 80s.
They listed all their services across the state. Right now, I can remember one where
Doctor Edwin as working at the DMH. All I can remember, one was Mary-Lou Sutter,
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who else? Who was the commissioner for DMH, the Department of Mental Health. There
was different people who was ... You know how the term of the commissioner changes?
SK 00:56:54
Yes.
NN 00:56:55
It's depending on who was on at that time and if they were connected to different social
services, even with the CMAA. I believe it was in 97 that we did a screening here in
Lowell, 97, 98. Did a screening on mental health depression, just so that we can reach out
to the Cambodian community. The Southeast Asian community in Lowell, before the
Metta Health Center.
SK 00:57:32
I see, so this was the Indo-Chinese Psychiatry Clinic, did like a screening or an
assessment of Lowell? I see. And that was before, did that help inform the Metta Health
Center when it was forming?
NN 00:57:46
For me, because I actually went when the psychiatrist went to advocates for the Southeast
Asian community, they wanted somebody who looked Asian to beSK 00:58:00
Yes, of course.
NN 00:58:00
... because the Doctor Richard Mallika and Doctor Kathleen Alder was the one who was
meeting with all the different agency right?
SK 00:58:09
Mm-hmm (affirmative).
NN 00:58:12
And then everyone went with them and that was the idea, that can we have agency that
really provides mental health services for Southeast Asians. The Indo-Chinese Psychiatry
Clinic is right there in Boston, but I was saying that for me, I was living in Brighton, but
then later, I came to live out here closer to Lowell and actually went back and worked
over there at the Deaconess in Boston.
NN 00:58:45
The majority of the Cambodian Americans was living here in Lowell, right?
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Mm-hmm (affirmative).
NN 00:58:50
And then the others in Lynn, and Revere. So the people in Lynn and Revere, they don't
go to the Deaconess Medical Center. But then, if they go over there, what about the
people here? Do they always able to get there or not? And that's where for me and for
other people in the community, was like, "What are we providing services for the people
who have traumas and who are Southeast Asians, whether they actually access mental
health services?" If you are out here in Lowell and then if you are in Lynn or in Revere
and you're not able to go into Boston, then what happened?
NN 00:59:32
I think those were the questions that was coming up and also medically, back then we
was advocating how we will have more services in medical services encouraging Asian
Americans to really, especially Southeast Asian, to get into medical field, because for
myself, it was just a caseworker, we're doing it bilingual, like social workers, we're doing
community health education, so we are not professionally trained as a ... We're just
trained as a community health worker and doing education, but not totally professional
license in that area. But how do we get more nurses orSK 01:00:22
Doctors, clinicians?
NN 01:00:22
Right, doctors, clinicians, yeah, so that was the questions. That was the advocates, for
that and then while we was having talk back then, the Lowell Community Health Center
was changing and later Dorcas came in, and the Indo-Chinese Psychiatry Clinic was
changing as well, because of the merge, before the Deaconess and Beth Israel, and then
the question is also because it was on a grant, then what do you do after such amount of
grant, what is the sustainability, what do you do? And so that changes. But this is a lot of
history.
SK 01:01:18
Yeah, no, that's good, that's good.
NN 01:01:22
And then I left, but by the time I left the Deaconess, it became Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center already in 99, 2000. So because the advocates for a health center that
really provides services for Southeast Asians was before that, it's like two or three years
before that. Even doing, what do you call it? These research into ... Trying to find
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information, data gathering in terms of getting depression screening, things like that, to
get information. When CMAA was doing it, it was before the open of Metta.
SK 01:02:07
I see.
NN 01:02:10
And that was then, meeting with the DMH commissioners and all that, so that they're
aware of the need of the community. Then, because by then, I left the BIDMC and I was
looking for a job, also they was doing wanting more peoples to enroll in getting health ...
you know, the people who don't have health insurance, they are not buying health
insurance, are they eligible for Medicaid? That was the question. And if you are eligible,
will you even go?
NN 01:02:49
So they was finding a lot of people who are uninsured, and also because I left the SABAI
to go to work at the Deaconess, and then there was somebody I was ... There were one or
two persons that was still doing it, but then were just doing Medicaid enrollments, just to
help people by word-of-mouth. We don't really have much money or anything like that,
but people said between volunteering and helping people and finally we get a little grant
from the Boston Women's FundSK 01:03:30
This is SABAI?
NN 01:03:31
Yeah SABAI, in 2000. So I came back to work under SABAISK 01:03:35
Great.
NN 01:03:36.
.. in 2000 and that's when Metta started, and I did a presentation. Oh, what was that?
What is it? Michael Cole, was it Doctor Michael Cole I think? He was the commissioner
for DPH before he went ... during Obama's for ... Michael Cole, I think that was his
name. In 2000, if you look in 2000 you will see. Yeah, I think it was Michael Cole. 2000,
you will seem that it was Michael Cole was the commissioner back then I think. I don't
think it was John. John Auerbach was after. John Auerbach is after, as commissioner for
DPH. Okay, I don't want to remember so ...
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ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, 2019-ONGOING
UML 17
Niem Nay-kret, Oral History #19.06
NN 01:04:30
But anyway, that was what was happening. Then so I did a presentation when Metta
opened, about tradition and culture the Cambodian women practice. That you practice the
hot and cold, the Yin and Yang, the traditional food, the beliefs, using herbs, using
different brewing herbs, those was the presentation I was doing. And in the culture from
the cuppings to the coinings, to there are others like the holy water when you're not
feeling well or changes, you go and get the blessing at the temple that help you
spiritually.
NN 01:05:40
If you are changing mentally, it might be possessions or part of somebody is walking
over your grave or somebody who is putting a spell on you, so that's why you're getting
the blessing. So that was some of the presentation I was doing and then I started with
SABAI, because we got a little grant to do that, increase some monies to do enrolling
people in Medicaid and also providing some women's health educations.
NN 01:06:23
Then when I came there, that's when we had a collaboration with Massachusetts AIDS
Projects.
SK 01:06:33
I see.
NN 01:06:35
Jacob Jan. Who was it before Jacob? The director? Emmet's, oh I forgot Emmet's last
name. Massachusetts AIDS Projects, if you look up they're still in Boston. Right now, all
I can remember is Emmet who was the board member who was in everything I was, he is
the long-term one that is part of that project and we did some collaborations. When I say
collaboration with them, we did women's health education or HIV/AIDS and that was
still an issue in the community, HIV/AIDS. And then they did a bit of women's health
education group presentations, group educations. That allowed us to go to actually home
and get women to train and then to do the extra education at their home, hosting.
SK 01:07:41
I see.
NN 01:07:42
Hosting a house party. They just like, we provide them some stipend, like $150 and you
just gather in the women you know, you come to the home and then you provide
information and then as being helping them, taking all the information on HIV. How does
the HIV transmitted? How would you know? Where will you get testing? I think that
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ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, 2019-ONGOING
UML 17
Niem Nay-kret, Oral History #19.06
was, it's part public health education as well. So we did some of that and we signed
whatever they need, that extra social services information.
SK 01:08:30
So you were working at SABAI, but collaborating with Metta and then on the various
initiatives?
NN 01:08:37
Yes.
SK 01:08:37
So SABAI at this point was Bilingual Advocates ...?
NN 01:08:40
Inc.
SK 01:08:40
All right, and then also partnering with the Mass AIDS project, particularly HIV/AIDS?
NN 01:08:45
Yep, Mm-hmm (affirmative).
SK 01:08:45
All right. I want to be mindful of the time. It's 2:30, but maybe we can ...? I mean I know
that you have to go, but maybe we can schedule another time to ... because I want to ask
you more about the HIV/AIDS stuff, you know? I mean if you worked, if ever like things
like contraception, those kinds of issues?
NN 01:09:05
Yes, those that was part of the education.
SK 01:09:06
Also, if abortion ever came up and those kinds of things right? I mean I'm sure those are
complicated things, but before we finish, just thinking back on those times, is there
anything, like we're talking about the period from mid-90s to 2000, what sticks out most
in your mind about that time? Just in terms of your feelings. I mean, did you enjoy the
work? Was it difficult? I mean as someone who had been through the Khmer Rouge, was
it difficult when you were working with trauma survivors and ...?
NN 01:09:45
What stick the most at this moment was I could remember, people who do, you know,
having a job, able to work and do develop and you have that family whose really
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marginalized and the have a hard time getting jobs, paying their bills and you're thinking
when you get here, is that you're never going to go without the necessities of life, which
is that you have water, you have a house, you have food, you have the things that you
needed.
NN 01:10:30
And that pride in the people, they want to work for themselves, they want to do for
themselves. They don't want to ask for help. You have those people who are like that, that
they will never ask you for help. And then those who will always ask for help and they're
never going to do anything, getting a job, things like that.
NN 01:10:56
I feel bad that I still come across family who was, feel that they don't have enough to eat
here, in America. To me that was hard and those are the ones who don't ask. You can see
the ripped shoes or old clothes that they're wearing, you pick up little things like that, that
you feel really bad. I can think about another man, that he is working, he's like if he
doesn't work, his family might starve or his children might not do well, but he has to
work, but he's mentally stressed-out.
NN 01:11:44
At work can be really stressful. He's doing assembly job, but then,
NN 01:11:49
his other coworkers having music on, and he is needing to concentrate on work. He feels
mentally stressed. That story of that man stick out with me, just because you have so
much stress, the trauma that he went through in the war and then now he come here, he
still feels stressed. If he was to get a new job, he's over the age of 50, almost 60, how he's
going to do it? Things like that.
NN 01:12:21
To me some of those things stick out and stay with you. You feel good that you're able to
help. But suffering or the hardship, the challenges they go through, stay with you. I think
it changes. The housing back then. Whoa, housing was more run-down back then. Even
when I see the downtown, I can remember I could see garbage, paper thing that they had
flying around and in the downtown street. I think in the 2000, it was talking more about
the City of Lowell is being revitalized, and those immigrants and refugees come in, it's
revitalized in the city.
NN 01:13:26
Talking with the Vietnamese Association in Worcester, the same thing. I feel that, they
feel revitalized, because when I was in the Indo-Chinese Psychiatry Clinic, we have
connections to over there. And they feel that way, so to me, yeah.
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ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, 2019-ONGOING
UML 17
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SK 01:13:56
I know it's going to be busy for the next couple of months, but maybe we can make
another date at some point to talk more about what happened to SABAI, work with the
mental health forum and things like that?
NN 01:14:07
Mm-hmm (affirmative).
SK 01:14:08
Okay, thank you.
Interview ends
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.
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CMAA
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
In Collaboration with
Lowell Community Health Center's
COMMUNITY HEALTH FAIR
Date: Thursday April 1, 2010
Time: 9:00am to 12:00 noon
Location: CMAA, 120 Cross Street, Lowell, MA 01854
Free Health Screening and services on:
• Blood sugar checks
• Blood pressure checks
• Stress( depression)
screenings
• Counseling and Testing
sessions for HIV Services
• Health Benefits/ Health
Insurance Information
and enrollment on:
For More Information call:
Ronnie Mouth
Jud ith Nelson
Molyka Tieng
Niem Nay-Kret
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BMC HealthNet Plan
Neighborhood Health
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978 - 454-6200
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A flyer for CMAA and Lowell Community Health Center's Community Health Fair event, 2010
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Nonprofit organizations
Health promotion
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A flyer for the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. and the Lowell Community Health Center's Community Health Fair event. The event was to take place on Thursday, April 1, 2010 from 9:00 a.m.-6:00 a.m. at CMAA, 120 Cross Street, Lowell, MA 0854. The event was part of the programming for an Executive Office of Health and Human Services Enrollment, Outreach and Access to Care grant.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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2010
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An account of the resource
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A flyer for CMAA's Connecting Community with Resources event, 2010
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Nonprofit organizations
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An account of the resource
A flyer for the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.'s Connecting Community with Resources event. The event was to take place on Thursday, June 24, 2010 with the rain date reschedule of Monday, June 28, 2010, and was to take place from 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. at Clemente Park on 823 Middlesex Street, Lowell, MA 01851. The event was part of the programming for an Executive Office of Health and Human Services Enrollment, Outreach and Access to Care grant.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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2010
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Connecting Community
with Resources
When:
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Rain date: Monday, June 28th, 2010
Where:
Clemente Park on 823 Middlesex Street,
Lowell, MA 01851
Time:
3:00PM-6:00PM
For more details, please contact:
Sengly Kong: 978 454 6200 ext. 1011 or
Navey Nuon: 978 454 6200 ext. 1029
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A flyer for CMAA's Connecting Community with Resources event, 2010
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Nonprofit organizations
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An account of the resource
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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2010
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association
of Greater Lowell, Inc.
120 Cross Street, Lowell, Massachusetts 0 1854
Tel: (978) 454-6200 Fax: (978) 454-6229
January 8, 2010
Human Resource Department
Children's Hospital Boston
300 Longwood A venue
Boston, MA 02115
Dear Sir or Madam:
Have you served patients who speak Cambodian and other Southeast Asian
languages at your facility? If your business is located in the greater Lowell, Boston,
Lexington, Peabody, Waltham, Lynn, Fall River, you would surely serve them.
Lowell is home to the second largest Cambodian community (estimated 35,000) after
Long Beach, California. CMAA, the non-profit organization with 25 years of
experience in delivering effective, culturally, and linguistically appropriate services
to the Southeast Asian community, is very proud of your service and commitment to
the well-being of our community. However, linguistic, cultural, systemic barriers,
and the barrier of register and experience with health care concepts and procedures
always hinder effective communication between you and your patients who speak
different languages.
To facilitate understanding in communication that involves complex language, body
systems, and concepts/procedures of Western biomedicine, CMAA would like to
offer you affordable and culturally sensitive interpretation and translation services
in Cambodian and other Southeast Asian languages.
Please feel free to contact me at (978) 454-6200 ext. 1011 or skon g@
cmaaiowell.org
should you need our service or like to learn more about it. I look forward to
facilitating the communication between you and your patients.
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An account of the resource
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A letter from Sengly Kong to Children's Hospital Boston, 2010-01-08
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Nonprofit organizations
Description
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A letter from Sengly Kong, Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.'s Economic Programs Coordinator, to Children's Hospital Boston to share information on CMAA's Cambodian and other Southeast Asian languages interpretation services.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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2010-01-08
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English
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uml22_b01_f02_i003
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Lowell, Massachusetts
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Kong, Sengly
2010-2019
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection, 1992-2014
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An account of the resource
This collection is in progress. Final items and associated metadata may be different from initial items and metadata. <br /><br />Note:<br />Digitized issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> from the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection have been added to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007 Omeka collection so that issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> may visually appear together when browsing in Omeka.
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A blank CMAA stipend form, [2009-2011]
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Nonprofit organizations
Description
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A blank Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. stipend form used to pay individuals for services provided.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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[2009-2011]
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application/pdf; 1 pp.
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English
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Text
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uml22_b01_f02_i002
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2000-2009
2010-2019
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CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE.ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELI.
120 Cross Street, Lowell, MA 01854
Tel: (978) 454-6200 Fax: (978) 454-6229
INTERPRETER TIME SHEET
Attention Interpreters: To get paid you must complete this time sheet and have it signed every time you
provide a service for the CMAA. All original time sheets (no copied time sheet accepted) must be submitted
/sent to: Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association before the 1st day of each month.
To be completed by the interpreter:
Interpreter's name: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Language: - - - - - - - - - Requested by:
from (Company/Agency etc.): _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Phone number:(~---~) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Type of Service provided:
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Patient or client's name
Address
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Other (describe) _ _ _ _ _ _ __
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Date & time of service provided:
Date:
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Medical
Hours worked- Start: _ _ _ _ _ _ A.M. /P.M.
End: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A.M. /P.M.
Preparation time (scheduling, confirmation, follow-up, etc): _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
To be completed by authorized representative of requesting agency or service provider:
I certify that the interpreter named above provided the services described herein, and the times
stated are accurate.
Name: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Title: - - - - - - - - - - - - - Signature: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Date - - - - - - - - /
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For Office Use Only
Check if service is for: _ _ _Emergency_ _ After Hours _ _Weekend _ _ Holidays _ _ Normal Hours
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection, 1992-2014
Description
An account of the resource
This collection is in progress. Final items and associated metadata may be different from initial items and metadata. <br /><br />Note:<br />Digitized issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> from the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection have been added to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007 Omeka collection so that issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> may visually appear together when browsing in Omeka.
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A blank CMAA interpreter time sheet form, [2009-2011]
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Nonprofit organizations
Description
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A blank Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. interpreter time sheet used to document an interpreter's service.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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[2009-2011]
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A flyer about CMAA's services to help individuals enroll for health insurance, [2009-2011]
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection, 1992-2014
Description
An account of the resource
This collection is in progress. Final items and associated metadata may be different from initial items and metadata. <br /><br />Note:<br />Digitized issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> from the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection have been added to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007 Omeka collection so that issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> may visually appear together when browsing in Omeka.
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A CMAA brochure for the Monorom Family Support Program, [2008-2014]
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Nonprofit organizations
Description
An account of the resource
A 6-page brochure for the Monorom Family Support Program at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. The brochure includes information on the program, including various services like transportation and translation, case management, crisis intervention, special education advocacy, parent support groups and family outings to Cambodian American children with developmental disabilities and their families.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
Publisher
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.
Date
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[2008-2014]
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application/pdf; 6 pp.
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Khmer
English
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Text
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uml22_monorom
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Lowell, Massachusetts
2000-2009
2010-2019
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Elder Service
Program
For more information contact:
CMAA
120 Cross Street
Lowell, MA 01854
(978) 454-6200
Cmaalowell.org
�Elder Service
Program
The Elder service program at CMAA
is dedicated to improving the quality
of life for Cambodian Elders.
Some of the services we provide are
transportation and translation.
Program staff assist clients fill out citizenship applications, and other required forms for various social services.
We assist clients in making and getting to medical appointments as well
as translation during medical appointments.
�Elderly Health
Part of the Elder Service Program is
to educate Cambodian Elders on the
importance of living healthy and productive lives ..
Program staff provides education,
training and case management to
Cambodian refugees who are living
with chronic disease.
Program staff educates participants
on the warning signs and treatment
of diabetes, cardiovascular disease,
Hepatitis B, osteoporosis and depression.
A Registered Nurse from Lowell
Community Health center attends
some of the health classes where she
shares answers to clients questions
and gives them facts on healthy living habits.
�120 Cross Street
Lowell, Ma 01854
Contact: 978-454-6200 Ext 1041
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection, 1992-2014
Description
An account of the resource
This collection is in progress. Final items and associated metadata may be different from initial items and metadata. <br /><br />Note:<br />Digitized issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> from the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection have been added to the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Publications, 1997-2007 Omeka collection so that issues of <em>Khmer Lowell</em> and <em>CMAA Lowell Magazine</em> may visually appear together when browsing in Omeka.
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A CMAA brochure for the Elder Service Program, [2008-2014]
Subject
The topic of the resource
Nonprofit organizations
Description
An account of the resource
A 6-page brochure for the Elder Service Program at the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. The brochure includes information on the program, including education on health, a transportation service for qualifying elders, and a translation service for elders.
Creator
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc.
Source
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Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc. Collection
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell, Inc
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[2008-2014]
Rights
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UMass Lowell Library makes this material available for private, educational, and research use. It is the responsibility of the user to secure any needed permissions from rightsholders, for uses such as commercial reproductions of copyrighted works. Contact host institution for more information.
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application/pdf; 6 pp.
Language
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Khmer
English
Type
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Text
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uml22_elder
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Lowell, Massachusetts
2000-2009
2010-2019
Cambodians
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A name given to the resource
Center for Asian American Studies. Collection, 2017-Ongoing
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An account of the resource
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SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.
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A photograph of people at a scan day event at SayDaNar Community Development Center, 2017-01-14
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Color photography
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An account of the resource
A photograph of Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) representatives Sue J. Kim (left, in front of laptop), Selena Tran (middle, face upturned), and Chrisna Khuon (foreground, visible head) and Lowell community members from Burma (present day Myanmar) at a community scan day event. The one-day event took place on January 14, 2017 at the SayDaNar Community Deveopment Center in Lowell. CAAS representatives helped event-goers scan and describe their photographs for inclusion in the Southeast Asian Digital Archive (SEADA). <br /><br />Please email us at <a href="mailto:seada@uml.edu">seada@uml.edu</a> if you can identify any of the people in this photograph. Include the URL or identifier and the names of the people you can identify.
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2017-01-14
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1 photograph; image/jpg
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Image
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uml11_20170114_003
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Lowell, Massachusetts
2010-2019
Burmese
Digital photography
Photographs
SayDaNar Community Development Center
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Center for Asian American Studies. Collection, 2017-Ongoing
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An account of the resource
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SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.
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The <a href="https://libguides.uml.edu/uml11" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">draft finding aid</a>.
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A photograph of people at a scan day event at SayDaNar Community Development Center, 2017-01-14
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Color photography
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An account of the resource
A photograph of Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) representatives Sue J. Kim (left, in front of laptop), Selena Tran (middle, face upturned), and Chrisna Khuon (foreground, visible head) and Lowell community members from Burma (present day Myanmar) at a community scan day event. The one-day event took place on January 14, 2017 at the SayDaNar Community Deveopment Center in Lowell. CAAS representatives helped event-goers scan and describe their photographs for inclusion in the Southeast Asian Digital Archive (SEADA). <br /><br />Please email us at <a href="mailto:seada@uml.edu">seada@uml.edu</a> if you can identify any of the people in this photograph. Include the URL or identifier and the names of the people you can identify.
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2017-01-14
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image
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uml11_20170114_002
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Lowell, Massachusetts
2010-2019
Burmese
Digital photography
Photographs
SayDaNar Community Development Center
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Center for Asian American Studies. Collection, 2017-Ongoing
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An account of the resource
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SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.
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The <a href="https://libguides.uml.edu/uml11" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">draft finding aid</a>.
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A photograph of people at a scan day event at SayDaNar Community Development Center, 2017-01-14
Subject
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Color photography
Description
An account of the resource
A photograph of Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) representatives Sue J. Kim (left, in front of laptop), Selena Tran (middle, face upturned), and Chrisna Khuon (foreground, visible head) and Lowell community members from Burma (present day Myanmar) at a community scan day event. The one-day event took place on January 14, 2017 at the SayDaNar Community Deveopment Center in Lowell. CAAS representatives helped event-goers scan and describe their photographs for inclusion in the Southeast Asian Digital Archive (SEADA). <br /><br />Please email us at <a href="mailto:seada@uml.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">seada@uml.edu</a> if you can identify any of the people in this photograph. Include the URL or identifier and the names of the people you can identify.
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2017-01-14
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Lowell, Massachusetts
2010-2019
Burmese
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SayDaNar Community Development Center
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Navigating SEADA Digital Collections
Part 1. What is the Southeast Asian Digital Archive (SEADA)?
Part 2: How to navigate to the SEADA digital collections in Omeka.
Part 3: What is an item?
Part 4: Omeka Search Directions
Part 5: Sample Keyword List
Part 1. What is the Southeast Asian Digital Archive (SEADA)?
The UMass Lowell Southeast Asian Digital Archive (SEADA) is a community-centered
archive of cultural heritage materials from Southeast Asian American communities in the
greater Lowell, Mass., region.
SEADA seeks to collect, preserve, and share historical materials related to Southeast
Asians in the Greater Lowell area, with particular focus on refugee resettlement and community
building from the 1970s to the present.
Select SEADA collections are digital and freely accessible through: www.uml.edu/seada.
Part 2: How to navigate to the SEADA digital collections in Omeka.
Entering www.uml.edu/seada into your computer browser will bring you the SEADA
homepage with links to various Southeast Asian American resources.
To access SEADA digital collections, click on one of the options circled in red shown below.
Note: Links underlined in blue on the left hand column will take you to other resources
that may be useful to your work.
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�When you arrive to the SEADA Omeka site you will have two ways to browse materials,
through “Browse Items” and “Browse Collections.”
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�Part 3: What is an item?
An item is made of two pieces:
1. An image or PDF
2. Information about the image or PDF
It is possible for you to
download an image or PDF.
Any color text other than black on your
screen is clickable and will take you to other
items using the same text in the same field.
Part 4: Omeka Search Directions
The best way to search the SEADA Omeka site is by using the basic search bar in the upper
right hand area of the window. You may have to click on the magnifying glass illustration to
open the search bar.
The first set of options allows you to select a query type:
Keyword, or general search (recommended);
Boolean, in which you can add boolean operators like AND and NOT;
Exact match, which will only find exact matches to the word or phrase you enter.
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�The second set of options are a series of check boxes for content to include in the search. The
options chosen may be:
Item
File
Collection
as well as options, if they exist, such as:
Simple Page (SEADA Omeka pages that do not include items, files, or collections)
Search Steps:
1. Choose your query type.
2. Choose the options available to search.
3. Type the keyword(s) you want to search for in the field available.
4. Click "Enter" on your keyboard or click the search magnifying glass button on your
screen.
These directions are from Omeka.org and have been adapted for this handout. For more
information on search directions as well as advance search techniques, log onto:
https://omeka.org/classic/docs/GettingStarted/Searching/
Part 5: Sample Keyword List
The following keywords are used or appear in the materials in the SEADA Omeka site. Choose
a keyword from this list, or think of your own keyword, and as you try searching for materials.
1980-1989
Birthday parties
Blessing dance
Color photography
Needlework
New Year
St. Patrick's Church
Sewing
Sound recordings
Southeast Asian Water Festival
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Center for Asian American Studies. Collection, 2017-Ongoing
Description
An account of the resource
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SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.
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A related resource
The <a href="https://libguides.uml.edu/uml11" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">draft finding aid</a>.
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Navigating SEADA Digital Collections handout, 2019
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Teachers’ workshops
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A handout titled "Navigating SEADA Digital Collections" created for use in the Engaging Southeast Asian Families and Communities In Your Classroom workshops.
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Xiong, Mee
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
Publisher
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
Date
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2019
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application/pdf; 4 p.
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English
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Text
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SEA FACET handout
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2010-2019
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TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2019 • 6-7: 5PM
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Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection, 2018-2019
Description
An account of the resource
The Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection consists of materials from a collaboration between UMass Lowell faculty members and community-based organizations in the Lowell, Massachusetts, area to collect and publish folktales from four community groups: Burmese, Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese.
The complete collection is available on this site.
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SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.
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Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection, 2018-2019. UML 24. Center for Lowell History, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA.
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The collection finding aid, https://libguides.uml.edu/uml24.
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A Long Long Time Ago in Southeast Asia book launch and signing event poster, 2019
Subject
The topic of the resource
Folk literature, Southeast Asian
Tales--Southeast Asia
Description
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A poster for the book launch and signing event for the book A Long Long Time Ago in Southeast Asia: Tales from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. The event took place on Tuesday, April 30, 2019 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. on the mezzanine at O'Leary Library.
Source
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Southeast Asian Folktales Book Project Collection
Date
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2019
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1 p.; 17 x 11 in.; 43.18 x 27.94 cm.
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English
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Text
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uml24_i002
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Lowell, Massachusetts
2010-2019
O'Leary Library
Posters
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Burmese Folktales
Swine, Pig and Lion
There are three animals. Fox is very witty, and very cunning. The pig, the swine and the lions
are very friendly. They are best friends. They love each other. But one day, the fox just goes to
the pig. He just goes and says the bad things about his friends. “Why do you love each other?
This guy is trying to kill you. He told me. You don’t believe me, right?”. “No, he is to be my
best friend all the time.” “Oh, whether you believe me or not, one day you will know.” And now
he goes to the lion and tells about the bad things about the swine again. “The lion is going to kill
you.” Finally, they misunderstand each other. These three best friends, they do not understand
each other anymore because they believe too much about the words from outside. Finally, they
fight each other. They fight each other. Before they die, the fox comes and eats them all.
Moral of the story: Don’t listen to the lying outsiders
The White Elephant
Once upon a time there was a lonely man without family. Since he was so poor, he had nothing
to eat. He had to work for the king as a servant. He had to work very hard as a servant. He had
to do everything of what the king asked him to do. He never refused. He never had a chance to
refuse. Whatever the king asked, he had to do. One day, the king heard that in the jungle, a
white elephant appeared.
The king told him, “You have to go and capture this one. I have given you all things you need.
This time, you have to repay the gratitude by going and capturing the white elephant.” Oh yeah.
“When you come back, you have to come back with the white elephant. If you come back not
with the white elephant, you will be dead.”
He was very upset, but he didn’t have a choice to refuse. He went into the jungle, he was so
afraid, so he even could not look for the white elephant. The white elephant knows how that guy
is feeling. The white elephant had the power. He was so surprised, and he just turn his . . . and
then he looked at and he saw the white elephant. And then he cried a lot. He was crying and
weeping, and he told the white elephant, “I’m so afraid of you, but I have no choice. The king
ordered me to capture you, so I don’t know how to capture you. Can you help me?”
He didn’t want to capture but he was so afraid of the king. If you do not go with me, I dare not
go back to the king anymore. If I don’t go back to the king, how can I live? How can I survive
in the jungle? And then the white elephant can speak. The white elephant said, “I came to you,
don’t be afraid of me. I came here just to help you. Just follow me.” The white elephant took
him into the deep jungle. The white elephant took him into the very, very big Bo Tree.
Many kinds of animals are very heavily, they are playing, and they love each other, having fun
there. So the lonely guy, he was so upset before, but when he see these elephants were very
happily, so he forget everything about his feeling. When he remembers, he turns around and
look, he didn’t see the white elephant anymore. And then he was leaning on the banyan tree
because he was so tired. Then he falls asleep. He got a dream. He had a dream. In his dream,
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�the white elephant told him, just go back to the king. Go tell your king, say, “You will get the
white elephant, what you want.” Just go and tell the king, “The white elephant that you want,
you will get it soon.” In his dream, the white elephant told him. “Before you get the white
elephant, you have to do something. The thing that you have to do is that you have to give away
all the belongings that you have. All the money, all the treasure you have. Just give it to the
poor, the troubled people. You have to give it away to all the people, and then you will get the
white elephant that you want.”
And then finally he woke up. He was thinking if I go back without the white elephant, the king
will kill me. He was afraid of the king. If I don’t go back, what I’m supposed to do here in the
jungle alone. He was thinking all the time. Finally, he decided to go back. The king was so
mad when he saw him without the white elephant, and he took all his knives out. And he
apologized. At the time, the king was so angry and took all his swords. At the time, he said that
he apologized, “Before you kill me, just listen one or two words from me. So let me tell, only
after that you can kill me,” he said. He said, “I met with the white elephant.” So when the king
heard he met with the white elephant, his anger cooled a little bit. And then he said as in his
dream, “So whatever you have, just give away to the poor people. If you donate everything,
every money you have, finally if you have nothing you will get the thing you want, the white
elephant. I will go and get it for you,” he said. “Are you sure?” the king said. “Yes, sure,”
because he really wanted to get the white elephant. That’s why he gave away all the things that
he possessed.
The king told him that, “I did everything what you told me, so this is your time, your turn.” And
he said, “Okay. Yes.” And then he went to the jungle. When he went to the jungle, so the white
elephant was ready waiting for him. And then he took the lonely guy on his shoulder or his back
He saw the white elephant and the white elephant was with him readily. The white elephant
already knew why he was coming back.
The king announced all of his people to welcome the white elephant with a bang. Music or
something like that. They played music very loudly when they saw the white elephant. The
people from the other countries around that area, they heard the news that the white elephant
lived in that area. Everyone wanted to come and see the white elephant. Because it is very rare.
A white elephant is very rare, that’s why they wanted to see. When the white elephant came into
the king palace, the music was playing very loudly. At the time, the white elephant told the
audience, the people, “My name is not the White King. My name is the Prince of Peace.”
Lots of people wanted to come and see the white elephant. That’s why everyday people come all
the time and to see the white elephant. Whenever they come, they bring something like a tribute,
like a present, offerings. Like gold and money, a lot of things they give. Every people, they
come and give like this. The king become richer than before.
After he gives, the Prince of Peace, the white elephant summoned and called the lonely guy and
told him, “I have been living in the palace for many years, so I’m also getting old now. I have to
go back to my place.” He also told the lonely guy, “In that country, everything’s ready.
Everything’s developing. You have peace and everything, so I don’t need to stay here anymore.
I have to go back.” And then the lonely guy went and told the king. Then the king celebrated a
farewell party for the elephant. When the music is coming and the white elephant took the lonely
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�guy on his back, and then he just flied and disappeared. The lonely guy didn’t have to worry
about food anymore.
Moral: If you are generous and can give away your treasure to others in need, you will have
peace, wisdom and wealth.
If you keep your promise
Once upon a time there was a grandpa and grandson. And one day, the grandchild to his
grandpa, “Hey Grandpa, you told me that you are going to tell me about the story.” “Yeah, I will
tell you. I have only one grandson. Of course, I will tell,” he said. And then the grandpa told
about his life story. He told him that, “I was very poor when I was young. I had only one sister.
We really had a hard time to survive.” And then one day, he decided to go and work in another
place. There were two roads to reach to that area. One was the shortcut and the other one was
the normal road that people went. If he went the shortcut, it would take him only one day. If he
went the other way, it would take him two or three nights. They had to sleep on the way two or
three nights. He dared not to use the shortcut because it was dangerous sometimes. He just went
to the normal way. On the way, he saw a rich guy in that village. He got a job from that rich
guy.
After one month, someone came and told him that his father was going to die soon, so he had to
go back. “If you don't go back, you will not have a chance to see your dad.” And so, at the time,
he did not get any wages and any salary yet, but he told his boss. The rich guy at the time, he
didn’t have any money in his hand, but he really felt pity on that guy. Finally, he gave a buffalo
to the guy and his sister.
This time, on the way back to home, they chose the shortcut because they wanted to see their
father. If they went in the normal way, it would take two or three days and they couldn’t have
the chance to see their father. No matter how hard it was, they would choose the shortcut. They
were riding the buffalo. The sister and the brother were taking the buffalo for the whole day.
The buffalo was very tired the whole way. Yeah, in the middle way, in the middle they saw a
very big patty field of rice. The buffalo was very hungry. It ate the rice there.
In the middle of the field, there is a small hut. They heard a voice. They didn’t see anything, but
they heard the voice coming out from the hut. And then they heard a girl telling her grandma,
“Grandma, Grandma, you see the buffalo is eating all our patty.” The grandma came out of the
hut. “Who is that?” she shouted. And then they were so afraid, and they apologized to that
grandma. They told that grandma about their real story and then they apologized the grandma.
“Please don’t do us anything. Please forgive us. Let us go back to see our father. So finally,
after the funeral, we will come back and help you for the harvest.”
That grandma told him, “You have to keep your promise.” “Oh yes, we’ll keep our promise.
We’ll come back and help you for the harvest.” Then, she let them go.
When they went back home, they saw the corpse of their dad. After the funeral, as they
promised, they come back to help the harvest. They helped all the harvest until they finished
everything. “We keep our promise, so let us go back now”. The grandma told them, “Don’t go
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�back. I need you more. I’m also getting very old. I’m very old. I have no children, so I will
give all my things to you.” Finally, they got everything from the grandma. And then their lives
became better.
Moral: If you keep your promise, your life will be better in the future.
The story of cuckoo bird
Once upon a time, there was a couple. They have seven children, six sons and one daughter.
At that time, around that year, the village had robbery. That’s why most of the people did not
have time to sleep. They had to check whether the robbers were coming. But the youngest
daughter, who their parents love her very much. The other six brothers also love her very much.
She slept a lot. When she slept, nobody could wake her up.
In the Karen village, they didn’t have the pillow, but they use the . . . , the very long . . . All
the family use the … as a pillow. If the thieves or robbers came, the mother just took it and
everybody woke up. But one day, the robber came, but the parents took the pillow out. All the
other boys woke up and the girl didn’t wake up. She was left alone at home. All the other
people left and ran. She was around about six years old at the time, so she always nagged to
mom to go and slept with her friend in someone’s house. The parents never let her go and sleep
there because she slept all the time. That’s why. In case the robbers come, she might be in
trouble, and that’s why the parents never let her go and sleep in someone’s house.
But on that night, she was nagging all the time, all the time, but she doesn’t want to hear that
mom doesn’t want to . . . and she let her go and sleep in the house. But unfortunately, on that
night, the robber come and rob the house. All the family members left and ran away. She was
left alone at the house because nobody took her. She was only six year at the time that she was
left in the house alone there.
On the night when the thief and the robber came, she was beaten very badly, so the thief and the
robbers forced her to give them money. She said, “I don’t have the money.” “Come on, tell me
your parents’ name. You have to ask money from your parents, otherwise you will be killed.” So
from that time, she was trying to call her mom. Cuckoo, cuckoo. This is like, “Mom, mom,
mom.” Yeah, that’s why wherever she goes, she was trying to call her mom’s name.
“Where are you now?” Finally, she was beheaded by the thief.
She was beheaded and later she was incarnated into a cuckoo bird.
Moral: Children should not sleepover.
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
SOUTHEAST ASIAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE
ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, 2019-ONGOING
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Sivaing Suos, Oral History #19.05
INFORMANT/NARRATOR: SIVAING SUOS (SS)
INTERVIEWER: TYLER SAR (TS)
DATE: AUGUST 19, 2019
SPEAKER
TIME
DETAILS
TS:
00:00:01
Either is on and working right now.
SS:
00:00:02
Perfect.
TS:
00:00:05
And this one right here? That's okay. So this is Tyler Sar speaking.
And I am the Southeast Asian Digital Archive Archivist at UMass
Lowell. Today is August 19th, 2019 at about 3:00 PM. I'm with
Sivaing Suos at the Center for Humanities Social Sciences at 820
Broadway Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. All right. So let's just
start with general biographical information. So what is your full
name?
SS:
00:00:40
My full name is Sivaing Suos.
TS:
00:00:43
Okay. Have you gone by any other names?
SS:
00:00:46
No.
TS:
00:00:46
Okay. What is your date of birth?
SS:
00:00:47
June 16, 1979.
TS:
00:00:49
Okay. And where were you born?
SS:
00:00:51
Cambodia.
TS:
00:00:51
Cambodia?
SS:
00:00:52
Kampong Chnang, Cambodia.
TS:
00:00:54
Okay. Where do you live right now?
SS:
00:00:57
I live in Townsend, Mass.
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TS:
00:00:58
Towsend, Massachusetts. Okay. And have you lived anywhere
else?
SS:
00:01:02
Yes, many places.
TS:
00:01:03
Okay. Anywhere notable as longer periods of time?
SS:
00:01:08
Yeah, I lived... So when I first to America, I lived in Fall River for
about five years. Five or six years. And then I moved to live in
Andover, Mass.
TS:
00:01:18
Andover, Okay.
SS:
00:01:18
And then I moved back to live in Cambodia and work there for a
few years. And then when I came back, I lived in Westborough,
Mass. And then I moved Townsend, Mass.
TS:
00:01:30
Okay. So a lot of places in Massachusetts.
SS:
00:01:32
Yes.
TS:
00:01:34
And so where did you go to school growing up?
SS:
00:01:37
Growing up? That's what's complicated. So, I grew up in
Cambodia. I went to school in a small village where I lived. I was
growing up during the postwar. So, my schooling experience was
not typical one like over here?
TS:
00:01:55
Yeah. Yeah. Around what years were you at school?
SS:
00:02:01
I started at first grade when I was about nine years old.
TS:
00:02:06
Nine years old, okay.
SS:
00:02:08
And then I didn't finish my eighth grade until I was about 14 or 15ish. Around there. 15-ish. Yeah.
TS:
00:02:18
Okay. All right. I guess that's good to know. So did you attend
high school after that and then college?
SS:
00:02:27
Not in Cambodia.
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TS:
00:02:28
Not in Cambodia, okay.
SS:
00:02:30
Because due to my safety I had to escape my hometown and
moved to live in the capital city of Cambodia and I became a
garment factory worker.
TS:
00:02:41
Okay. Do you know around what year?
SS:
00:02:41
I was about 15 and a half.
TS:
00:02:41
15, okay.
SS:
00:02:44
And I worked there until I was 18. 18, yeah. And then I...
TS:
00:02:48
And then so did you say you went to college or university?
SS:
00:02:51
I did here in America. So, I came to United State in July 1997, and
I came here as an immigrant. It was not intention to go to school.
But because I love education and I guess my first reason why I
went to school because when I go to work, I work in a factory. And
my first job in America was a perfume factory where I did not
know a word of English. And then when people talked to me,
people got frustrated that I can't talk back to them.
SS:
00:03:25
And I myself got frustrated, because I can't communicate to them
myself. And I started to learn ESL in a church near where I lived at
that time. And about a few months later, I believe my ESL teacher
recognized that I'm a fast learner. And he then approached the
priest at the church -- because I learned at church. And the next
morning is when he say not planning. The priest ask me if I want
to go to school, and I was still almost 19 years old.
SS:
00:03:53
And then he helped me to... The next morning he picked me up and
got me my physical checkup, and at the same day also took me to
Fall River Durfee High School, almost 19 years old. I started a
freshman there. So yeah, I did go to high school here in America. I
was 19 years old.
TS:
00:04:14
Okay. So did you start off as a freshman?
SS:
00:04:15
Yeah.
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TS:
00:04:16
Okay. And so you went through all four years?
SS:
00:04:17
All four years. I graduated at about 21 years old.
TS:
00:04:19
Wow. That's really nice of them. And so for university, what was
your major focus?
SS:
00:04:26
My major focus was reverse psychology.
TS:
00:04:29
Okay.
SS:
00:04:31
So I started as an immigrant... My English was... You know when
in four year in high school all my classes were ESL program
classes in high school. So I started at Middlesex Community
College for my associate degree in psychology. And I also moved
onto UMass Lowell when I graduated with a bachelors in liberal
arts concentration on psychology and sociology.
TS:
00:05:02
Okay. So what else? So when did you finish school or college?
SS:
00:05:05
I just graduated 2018.
TS:
00:05:09
Okay. Congratulations.
SS:
00:05:10
Because I... Thank you. Because I took a gap few years after I got
my associate, I went and moved back to Cambodia. I came back in
country and got my bachelors.
TS:
00:05:17
All right. So you probably have... I saw your resume. So you have
a lot of jobs, right? So which jobs would you say are your most
important ones that you've experienced since living in the States?
SS:
00:05:32
All of my jobs are very important. But one of them that really
stand out to me, it was domestic violence. I was a domestic
violence worker from 2012 up until 2000... I'm sorry. From 2002
until 2012.
TS:
00:05:48
Oh wow. That's long time.
SS:
00:05:49
I mean I took up a couple... Actually, two years off, I've been and I
did case manager at a mental health in Providence. But then I went
back to domestic violence. Because that's what I thought I was
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good at. Well I think I know I'm good at it. So that's very... I love
the job because I got to help a lot of women and children and some
men too. And educate them and help them not just to get out from
an abusive relationship, but also to empower them. Especially
women and children. So they become independent and get out of
the trap basically.
SS:
00:06:30
And more I’d like to say, I'm very -- I really like the job. Because
I’m very passionate about helping people. I help many women
from different countries to be able to stay in America. To get the
green card basically.
TS:
00:06:45
Okay.
SS:
00:06:45
Yeah.
TS:
00:06:46
And so right now, what do you do for a living?
SS:
00:06:48
I am working as a caseworker at the Justice Resource Institute here
and Chelmsford. We covered the Lowell areas. So I would say
Lowell. My office in Chelmsford but I work with the Lowell
residential.
TS:
00:07:05
Okay. So is it with like the juvenile system?
SS:
00:07:09
The program I'm working at right now is called the Young Parent
Support Program. So I work with parents who are young. Who are
22 and younger.
TS:
00:07:16
Okay, okay. All right. Okay. So moving on a bit. I'm just going to
ask a few questions about your family. So what are your parents'
names?
SS:
00:07:27
My mother’s named Thou Meas. First name Thou and last name
Meas. And my father’s name Chan Suos.
TS:
00:07:33
Okay. And what were their backgrounds? Where were they born?
Where did they live? And what kind of jobs they did?
SS:
00:07:41
So my... Both of my parents were born in Kampong Cham
Province in Cambodia. My mother’s deceased. My father is alive.
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He also lives in Cambodia. He does not want to come to the States.
He is 80 years old now.
TS:
00:07:57
Okay, wow.
SS:
00:07:59
Yeah. So, yeah.
TS:
00:08:00
Okay. And before they got older, what types of jobs did they do?
SS:
00:08:06
So yeah. Basically my parents... I'm going to give a little
background of them. So my mother she's... Before the war, I think
she had her own business. She graduated from college before the
war. But then as a Cambodian woman, no matter what, you went
back home and got married-- become a mother. And they have
their own business. And my father was a farmer. And then, yeah.
That. Prior to the war.
TS:
00:08:38
And do you remember your grandparents' names?
SS:
00:08:41
No, I never met them. I know their name, but I never met them.
TS:
00:08:44
Okay. Do you know anything about their backgrounds? What they
did?
SS:
00:08:48
I know the grandparents from my mother's side was the wealthiest
family in the village where they were living before the war. And
they got executed as soon as the war start because they are accused
of them of being a... I forgot the word in English. In Khmer we call
moulothon. Like other richer people, they're business owners or
whatever. So those that get-
TS:
00:09:10
So just like wealthy?
SS:
00:09:10
Wealthy. Yeah. So they got... So from my mother's side, both of
my grandparents, my aunts and my uncles they all executed the
same day.
TS:
00:09:19
Oh, God.
SS:
00:09:20
When the war broke out. Yeah.
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TS:
00:09:22
Okay. And so what would you consider as the ethnicity of you and
your family?
SS:
00:09:29
I'm a Khmer.
TS:
00:09:29
Yeah. Khmer Cambodian?
SS:
00:09:30
Yeah. Cambodian.
TS:
00:09:33
And what languages did you and your families speak?
SS:
00:09:36
Back home we spoke Khmer. We speak Khmer.
TS:
00:09:39
Exclusively like only Khmer? Nothing else?
SS:
00:09:40
When you talk back home, home, you have only Cambodia.
TS:
00:09:43
In Cambodia.
SS:
00:09:44
In Cambodia exclusively yes, Khmer.
TS:
00:09:49
Okay. Do you have any siblings?
SS:
00:09:50
I do. I do have a lot of siblings. If you people ask me about siblings
I always expanded the answer because I do have only one younger
sister that we have the same parents. But I got three step-siblings
from my mother's side and also three step older sibling from my
father's side. Again, because of the war. Their first spouses were…
One of them got executed. My mom’s first husband got executed
in my house. My father’s first wife got starve to death. And so they
were match by the Pol Pot Army. And then they have me and my
younger sister.
TS:
00:10:26
Okay. And so far, I guess starting out with your younger sister,
what's her name?
SS:
00:10:31
Her name is Siva.
TS:
00:10:32
Siva. And what does she do? Just a bit of background.
SS:
00:10:36
Yeah, she is living in Cambodia still. And she is an accountant.
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TS:
00:10:44
Okay. And so how about the rest of your siblings?
SS:
00:10:48
They are some of them are business owners. Some of them are... I
think two are farmer and the rest are business owner in Cambodia.
They all live in Cambodia.
TS:
00:11:00
They all live in Cambodia still. So do you have any big childhood
memories that you're fond of or that are important to you?
SS:
00:11:12
Childhood? There's a lot. Like I said, I grew up during the postwar.
And the memory was good and bad. One of the good memory that
I grew up in kind of jungle sort of. So I only herd 25 cows. I
herded 25 cows. I loved to spend my time in the forest. And that's
my good memory because I climb a tree. I was a very creative
child. And I love and I was very... I'm like a leader. I had a leader
personality.
SS:
00:11:46
So I kind of like... I know how to control my peer. Can make them
do things on his own. So it's kind of good but bad at the same time
and too bossy whatever. But then another memory that I remember
is when I go to school. Because I was like nine, 10 years old. And I
had to ride a bicycle each way about two and a half hour from my
house to my school. And it was very dangerous.
SS:
00:12:12
So those memories they're vivid... Like sometime when the Pol Pot
Army... Because again, the postwar. So when they come and they
bomb and broke the bridge, we have to buy myself my bicycle and
my backpack. Well it's like a plastic bag, whatever I had at that
time. We have to cross with a very tiny boat. But at that time, at
that particular river, it had a lot of alligators.
TS:
00:12:34
Oh, wow.
SS:
00:12:35
Yeah. And I used it every day. Every time I cross that. So I have
like a thousand butterfly in my stomach. And I feel like all of my
intestine come up to my chest because I'm like, "When they're
going to come to me?"
TS:
00:12:45
Yeah. It's so scary.
SS:
00:12:46
So every time I crossed that river -- that's my vivid memory, that
sometimes I see them merging towards us. And praying to God and
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to Buddha to... Anyhow, so that those time when I use the memory
that every day that I go to school. Either I fear being raped by other
people or I fear of being eat by alligator.
TS:
00:13:06
That's crazy. Every single day.
SS:
00:13:08
Yeah.
TS:
00:13:09
Anything else you can think of?
SS:
00:13:13
In my childhood when I herd my cows in a forest, I always...
Again, I'm very creative. I always make myself. So I'm very
independent. Even I grew up with my parent, but I know how to
make things to sell. I cut dead branches and tie two bunches and
put in from my house and sell to earn money so I can... And I
know how to grow sweet potato vegetable. All kinds of potato.
SS:
00:13:42
I grew all kind of vegetables and then I would sell them on my way
to school and earn the money to spend for myself so that my...
Basically that's one thing I know about me, that I always know
how to create resources and make my living. That, my parents
never had to worry about get money to buy my clothes and
whatever. I always supported myself when I was little.
TS:
00:14:03
Yeah, yeah. So very resourceful.
SS:
00:14:05
Right.
TS:
00:14:06
That's really good. Okay. So after that, I guess we'll just start
talking a bit about your immigration history. So why did you... So
was it only you that left to the States or was it the rest of your
family?
SS:
00:14:20
Yeah.
TS:
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Was it only you.
SS:
00:14:21
I'm by myself came to the States.
TS:
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Okay. So why did you leave Cambodia?
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00:14:26
It'll be interesting, to be quite frankly is that I just not... I did not
want to come here. But because of the safety... First I fled my
village. Because there's a guy was scared of a rumor of someone
wanted to kidnap me. So my mom had to evacuate me in the
middle of the day as soon as she heard the news. She sent me to
Phnom Penh. I live at somebody's home and my family. Like with
an extended relative from the village but they live in Phnom Penh.
SS:
00:14:57
So I stayed with them and stayed with their family who gambled.
They work the gamblers. And everyday -- and Phnom Penh is
unsafe for me too. Because there a woman who I stay there. She
always wanted to sell me to prostitution. She wanted to sell me to
many places. But then I got saved by her husband. But anyhow,
long to a short story. The woman, the same woman who wanted to
sell me many time, she end up having the idea.
SS:
00:15:28
Because she gamble, she owe people a lot of money and she have
an idea because I was young. I was 18 at that time. 18 and a half.
And she had an idea of sending me to America so I can work and
earn money to help her so that her husband won't find out about
her gambling issues. So it's all about not my idea. So she would tell
my family in hometown say, "Oh, why don't you send her to
America? She will earn money. She can come... She would help
you guys."
SS:
00:15:56
But her story she told me is a different way from she told my
family. She said, "You've got to go there. You've got to help me. I
offered you my house to stay for a few years. And now your time
to pay me back. How would you want to help me? So you go to
America. You work, you help me as long I pay off the debt. My
husband won't kill me." And I was young. I was very naïve. I
didn’t finish eighth grade from the village. And so yeah. And so I
get whatever she said. And my family said, "Okay, you go". And I
said, "Okay. I come."
SS:
00:16:31
Yeah. When I came here, I came with zero English. So I came here
with $11,000 debt. Because everybody from my family, they try to
gather the money whatever. I have no idea how they did the
paperwork, but they just tell me to answer certain to their embassy.
And then whatever they did, I don't know. But then they got me
here. So I came. So when I came here, that's when I told I work at
the perfume factory. And that's where I felt that I needed to learn
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English. So to answer a short question -- yeah. I came here, it's not
on my will. I came here because somebody set me up to come.
TS:
00:17:17
And do you remember when you came here? So what age or what
year?
SS:
00:17:19
I came here at 18. So it was July 27, 1997 when I landed here. And
actually, I landed in Green Airport in Providence, Rhode Island.
TS:
00:17:32
And where did you... So before that you lived in Phnom Penh for-
SS:
00:17:37
I lived in Phnom Penh.
TS:
00:17:37
For how many years?
SS:
00:17:37
I lived in Phnom Penh from age 15 to 18. So about three years.
TS:
00:17:40
So three years. Okay. And your city of arrival again. Where did
you-
SS:
00:17:44
Fall River.
TS:
00:17:45
Fall River? And you stayed there for five years?
SS:
00:17:47
Yes.
TS:
00:17:48
All Right. Did you have relatives to stay with or did you?
SS:
00:17:50
Extended.
TS:
00:17:51
Extended family. So no one you knew.
SS:
00:17:54
Actually it's not even my blood relative. It was my mother first
husband's niece basically. So it's not blood relative, yeah.
TS:
00:18:02
Okay. Now just a bit about your refugee experience. So you stated
that you... So you were born after the Khmer Rouge and it was-
SS:
00:18:13
Yeah. It's not totally after, but when it's about... So during the
breakout I wonder. So when I was born during... When the
Vietnamese army invaded and a number that was during the
shooting. So I was born on the mountain basically while my
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mother was escaping. So I'm kind of lucky to survive basically.
But no midwife, no nothing andTS:
00:18:36
Yeah. That is crazy. And so I know you were living in Phnom
Penh and then you moved here because not on your own will.
Because you were forced to basically. What were the
circumstances of the rest of your family? Like your parents, your
siblings?
SS:
00:18:58
They are... So my... At that time, all of my parents have they was
doing farming. And two of my siblings, they did their business in
the village. Like buying products and selling that whatever they do
there. And they all live in my own town.
TS:
00:19:21
Okay.
SS:
00:19:21
Yeah.
TS:
00:19:22
And they all just lived there and grew up there?
SS:
00:19:25
Grew up there and they all still there now.
TS:
00:19:27
Yeah. Okay. So just a bit more about your arrival to the States.
How did you feel overall just first arriving over here?
SS:
00:19:38
Lost. Confused. Scared. Everything smell... The smell. I remember
the smell was kind of strange. I smell the American food. I felt so
sick for like a week. I couldn't eat anything. I miss my mother
terribly. I mean, I was away from her in Cambodia but in the same
country. But coming here is a huge difference.
TS:
00:20:06
Yeah. It's huge. So big. And how was your relationship with the
extended-extended family?
SS:
00:20:14
To me grow up during the war and also the culture, I know how to
survive. So I basically, I do anything to please them, to make them
happy. Even sometime if they still not happy, but it doesn't matter.
I still just keep my mouth quiet and do everything I had to do in
the house. Cooking, cleaning. Again, I do everything I have to just
to make sure that I can live with them safely and okay and survive
each day.
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TS:
00:20:41
And about how many years did that last?
SS:
00:20:45
I lived with the family for about a year. Yeah, about a year.
Because I got arrange married to my first husband. Who I rejected
when I was in Cambodia. I didn't... Yeah. But anyhow. So yeah, I
lived with that family for a year. And then I got married and I
moved out. I kind of move. Not move. I move downstairs to their...
They have like a three family house.... So I rented the apartment
downstairs.
TS:
00:21:13
And with your husband?
SS:
00:21:14
With my husband at the time. Yeah.
TS:
00:21:16
Okay. And what were some of your biggest struggles coming here?
SS:
00:21:21
Everything. Biggest struggle, the language, culture. Food I kind of
adapt to pretty quick. Language, culture. I don't know. Just being
alone. It just like... And also the fear is that because I came here,
the money that everybody put together to send me here, I didn't
even know until I got here. And when I landed, I was told that you
have to come up with $11,000 to pay back the people who put the
money for me.
SS:
00:21:52
So, and at that time, that also one of the biggest fear. Even though
the language and your culture was a culture shock for me and
everything. But I was focused on how am I going to earn the
money to pay them back. And at that time I was 18 and I had...
And then the working in the factory and I was not legal go to work.
People just send me and I just go work with them. And I made $4
an hour. And I had to pay to the rent with the woman who I live
with. I had to pay rent, I had to pay food. I had to save and send the
money back.
SS:
00:22:25
So basically for the first five year in fall River I never buy... I
wouldn't say, "No." But I almost never buy any new clothes or
shoes. So I would get stuff from the church to survive on. And in
order for me to pay off the debt, that I had without asking for. So,
yes. So that was my biggest fear. But then also the culture shock. It
was very big for me too. And I was at the age, but I was kind of
forced to grow up in a way. So I did not have the early teenager's
life. So I grew up very, very different. A lot of responsibilities.
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SS:
00:23:06
And it’s shocking too because I became married to somebody who
I never met in my life. But somewhat, I had no choice. I was told
either I'm married to the person or I'm going to be sent back. And I
say, "I can't go back without having enough money to pay them."
If I go back when I work in Cambodia in a garment factory work,
as a garment factory worker, I made $35 a month. How can I come
up with $11,000 to pay the debt I own? So I'm kind of like, "Yes, I
have the willing to married somebody who I didn't even know."
And right away I became a mother.
SS:
00:23:40
So that's another fear. Each more fear coming along. And it's like
one after another.
TS:
00:23:44
A lot of burden and responsibility.
SS:
00:23:44
And a lot of burden, right? And then I had to learn the language.
So, yeah. It's a lot.
TS:
00:23:45
Yeah. So just everything piling on top of each other.
SS:
00:23:53
Everything piling on each other. And you living with somebody
who you don't know, the personality, the needs, the interest. And it
just very complicated. And that's the reason why I asked him to
divorce after five years marriage. Because of that's all of the factor
that kind of like something I did not ask for. I did not ask to be a
wife, I did not ask to be a mother. But everything just came along
the way.
TS:
00:24:20
Okay. Moving on a bit. So what kind of support systems or...
Yeah. What kind of support did you have other than that family?
SS:
00:24:29
Honestly, I did not have the support. Even that family, they weren't
supportive of me. They was emotionally abuse me pretty bad. But I
guess I'm a hard headed person. So I never considered myself to be
a victim. I'm a fighter. But I fight silent. My way of fighting is to
work hard and improve myself. And I will not accept any
negativity. When they call me names, I just stay quiet. But I tell
myself, "That is not me. They can call all they want."
SS:
00:24:56
For some reason, I have a very strong foundation. Because I think
the love my mother gave me... Even though it was postwar, but the
love that she gave me a strong enough for me to shield all the
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negativity around me. But yes. And to answer your question, if I
have any support system -- no I don't.
TS:
00:25:12
So, nothing.
SS:
00:25:13
I did not. Yeah.
TS:
00:25:14
Yeah.
SS:
00:25:15
I mean I have to say I have the church, the priest. He put me into
school. That was a huge support. But then after that I was on my
own. Because, why? My husband did not support me to go to
school. The family who I stayed with told me not to go to school.
They told me as a Cambodian expression, "You as a woman, you
cannot turn around a kitchen. Why you have to go to school for?
You’re supposed to be a wife. Supposed to be a mother. You
should be a mother and a wife. You should not go to school." But I
did not listen to any of them.
TS:
00:25:47
Yeah. So you went to school full time and you didn't work at the
same time or-
SS:
00:25:50
So before I got pregnant, after... I've been going to school. So I
arrive in July. I started school in November the same year. And
then I got married the following June, July. I think the following
June of next the 1998. So anyhow, so yeah. I've been going to
school before I got married. I was going to school in the morning
and I work in the evening at a perfume factory. And the same thing
after I got married I did the same thing. I go to school the morning
and I work in the evening.
SS:
00:26:27
And then up until my pregnancy about two month before I due
when I stop working, I just continue go to school until I give birth
to my twins. And then I stay home for a couple of months. They
sent the teacher to teach me at home and do test everything at
home. So I was still in school. And then when my twins turned, I
think six months old, I went back to work. So I go to school in the
morning, put them in a daycare, come back home. My husband at
that time stay home with them when I go to work in the evening.
So I've been schooling working the whole time.
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TS:
00:27:03
Yeah. Yeah. A sort of no time for yourself basically. Did your
husband have a job as well?
SS:
00:27:09
He did. He did. But because he's not really educated, so his job
was pretty much a factory worker. Make pretty much minimum
wage.
TS:
00:27:19
And you said you worked at a... Was it a perfume factory?
SS:
00:27:22
Perfume factory. Yeah. That's my... I worked at that place for quite
some time.
TS:
00:27:26
Okay. So that was the whole time you were in Fall River and
basically.
SS:
00:27:29
I work elsewhere too. But it's not my reg. So my regular job was at
the perfume factory. But then I also work at the cranberry farm in
Watertown on the weekend. I remember... Oh yeah. I remember on
the winter. I remember in November, around November time, it
was cold freezing outside. I went and worked in a cranberry farm.
Pull out the maple leave tree. Little tree in the farm. It was very
cold. So I do it on the weekends. So I literally took any job open
and available, I worked seven days a week.
SS:
00:28:04
And I remember one summer 2000, I think eight, 1998 I think I
was I work seven days a week because a school vacation. So I
work seven days a week in double shift every day. So I remember
one day I almost fainted at the clothing factory in Brockton. So I
remember I was overworked and my body kind of like exhausted.
TS:
00:28:28
Yeah, yeah. It's too much.
SS:
00:28:29
Yeah. So I fainted once. But yeah. I've been working a lot.
TS:
00:28:33
Yeah. A lot of jobs. Okay. And now just a few questions about
having children whilst over here. So you said you had... How many
children do you have right now?
SS:
00:28:45
I have two.
TS:
00:28:45
You have two children?
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There's only two.
TS:
00:28:47
Only two?
SS:
00:28:47
Mm-hmm (affirmative). They twins.
TS:
00:28:49
Twins. And you had them a year or two after... Was it two years
after arriving to America?
SS:
00:28:57
So I arrive in 1997, July 19. And I had them two years about...
After two years. I had them March of 1999.
TS:
00:29:11
Okay so how was it... I guess, parenting while you had all these
other burdens on you?
SS:
00:29:20
On my own.
TS:
00:29:20
Yeah. On your own.
SS:
00:29:20
Yeah, on my own. My husband was pretty... I would it call it old
school. He had no parenting skill. And so myself I did not have
any parenting skill. But one thing I know for sure that I had the
love for my kids. And I always make sure they clean. Make sure
they well fed. Make sure they’re loved. And I remember that... No
one had taught me because again, I'm very privileged in a way that
I had my mother. Because she well educated before the war.
SS:
00:29:52
So even though the post war, there is no book, nothing. We live in
a jungle in a way and there's no book. But then my mom always
tell me story every night. She's always had different story to tell
me. So it’s kind of routine. So when I had my kids, I think my
routine with them is every night with my broken English, I read
them a book. And later on I remember when they knew English
better, they kind of corrected me. And the same because before
they get like they're listening and they didn't even understand
anything. They were so small.
SS:
00:30:21
So, yeah. So, parenting wise, I just went along and did what I think
is right for myself. No one had taught me anything here.
TS:
00:30:30
And sending them to school. Was that any trouble just navigating
the public school system?
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00:30:36
No, I did not. So, I'm the type of person who tries it. Because I
knew I'd been working. So the job that I had been doing helped me
a lot. So I work with domestic violence with parents and children.
Obviously you’re going to be involved with a family involved with
everything. So I kind of get familiar with the school system. And I
know how to advocate for myself, my kids along the way. Because
the job that I had been, I got trained to know how to help them.
SS:
00:31:07
And I have to say I don't have any issues. Because everything
come along, I always request for meeting with teacher. I always
ask question. I always attend parenting meeting and all of those
things. So as a single mom, because I divorce when my kids were
three years old. So I raise them basically by myself. But I didn't
have any problem. Again by the time my kid started school, I have
enough ability in English skill to support them and navigate myself
along the way.
TS:
00:31:40
Yeah. And just another question about language. So when you
didn't know any English at all, how did you go about just
navigating everything?
SS:
00:31:50
It’s hard. It’s hard. I remember in high school everything was ESL
classes. And the first month I remember clearly the first one month
mark I gave up for a week. Because I sat in a classroom. I had no
idea what the teacher was saying. I mean, I know yes, no. Okay.
And when she's not happy, her face expression I know. Like
yelling or whatever. But I don't know the whole context of the
conversation. So I got... And I feel very bad. Because I cannot
read, I cannot follow the reading with other peers. Even other peer
they younger.
SS:
00:32:26
And they had some... Even they also may immigrant from a
different country, but because they younger they ask. Some of
them, most of them have some previous English from their home.
From their country. Whereas I'm a pure garment worker, factory
worker from Phnom Penh and a complete a different story. So
anyway, I felt so bad, I cried almost every day. And after a month I
quit at school. And I went to work double shift at the perfume
factory. And then one incident, something went wrong.
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00:32:59
I think I misplace the bottle. Because you work on the line. When
you placed it when the line ran too fast, you only can do so much,
right?
TS:
00:33:07
Yeah.
SS:
00:33:08
I miss a bottle and then the perfume was spilled out and the I got
yelled at by the leader who controlled the line. And she like
screaming out of her lung at me. And her eyebrows almost popped
out. And I want to explain to her that you put the line too fast and
I'm not a machine. I'm a human being. But I cannot explain that to
her. It make me so mad and frustrated. And I say to myself on that
day, I said, "I'm going to go back to school. I'm not going to quit
anymore." So I should thank to her about the way she treated me
and pushed me like, "I have to learn. I have to be able to
communicate with them. I cannot live like this anymore."
SS:
00:33:43
And then I went back to school and from then on I stick in school
until I graduated.
TS:
00:33:49
So all four years?
SS:
00:33:50
All four years I study whenever opportunity I have. I read. I try to
open dictionary. I put word together. I try to listen to... Oh, and by
the way the family who I stayed with, she have a... At that time she
has seven year old girl. She kind of like taught me. I try to speak
with her a lot and she taught me English along the way.
TS:
00:34:12
Okay. Just asking a bit about naturalization and citizenship. So at
the moment, what is your citizenship status?
SS:
00:34:21
I am a citizen.
TS:
00:34:22
Okay. When did you get naturalized?
SS:
00:34:25
In 2004.
TS:
00:34:27
2004? How did it?
SS:
00:34:29
I did it on my own too. Again because I am... So at the privilege I
got when I live in Fall River, I have to say I'm one of the
Cambodian that can speak and write both English and Khmer. So I
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got a really good job working with... They're called Catholic Social
Services in Fall River as a... My first job was I worked in a
headstart for a year but then I move on to domestic violence work
where I work for the Catholic Social Services. Where I got trained
and everything. So I'm sorry, I missed your question, right?
TS:
00:35:05
No, I was just wondering how you got naturalized.
SS:
00:35:08
Oh yeah, that's right. So when I do that job, I got to work with an
emigrant attorney in the same office. And I ask her. I said, "I've
been here for a certain amount of years now. I want to apply for
the citizenship." Because I wanted to sponsor my mother. At that
time she was still alive. Anyhow so I did it. So that particular
colleague attorney work in the same organization and help me
through. So I applied for it and I got an interview and I passed it.
TS:
00:35:38
Okay. How was the process overall?
SS:
00:35:40
It was not hard at all. Because again because I knew enough
English at that time. And also I did at that time beside I did
domestic violence work, I also work for a Cambodian Mutual
Assistance in Fall River. My job as a part-time, at that time I
helped older people. So it's called Woman Group. So I help a lot of
older people to get naturalized. So I often took them to Boston and
I get familiar with the system, the questions and everything. So
when is was my turn it was very simple and just quick and easy.
TS:
00:36:12
Yeah. So that helped a lot?
SS:
00:36:13
Yeah, yeah.
TS:
00:36:15
So was there a significant community in Fall River?
SS:
00:36:19
Yeah, it's a good amount of Cambodian. It's not as big as Lowell.
But it's, yeah, I'm not sure how many. About four or 5,000 maybe.
TS:
00:36:25
Okay.
SS:
00:36:26
Yeah.
TS:
00:36:26
Oh wow. That is a decent amount.
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SS:
00:36:28
I hope that's a true number. I'm just make it up. But I'm not
assuming that. They do have temple there. They have stores.
Couple of stores there. So it's a good amount of people.
TS:
00:36:36
Yeah. Enough to be established. To see-
SS:
00:36:38
Yeah. Yeah.
TS:
00:36:39
... them around. So did you go to temple or church first off,
growing up and then afterwards?
SS:
00:36:46
Yeah. I went to both. When I was living there. I go to church
because again, the priest who helped me put me in school that one
day that he made decision to help me it change my life. So for the
matter of fact, I went and saw him last weekend to say “Hi.” He's
older now. He's in his 80s now. But anyhow. So yeah, I went to
church. But then during the Khmer traditional ceremony like
Pchum Ben or Khmer New Years, I go to the temple. It’s just to
carry my tradition. But when I go to church, it’s more like I pay
respect to the priests who helped me.
TS:
00:37:22
Okay. And growing up, did you go to temple while you were in
Cambodia?
SS:
00:37:28
Yeah.
TS:
00:37:28
Okay. How often?
SS:
00:37:31
Only the special occasion like Pchum Ben and New Year. Because
again during my time growing up there, the country was very
undeveloped. And things was pretty behind. And is a lot different
compared to now.
TS:
00:37:48
Okay. So I guess even though you went to church, would you say
you followed the beliefs of Christianity or did you go mostly just
because of the help the priest gave you?
SS:
00:38:01
Yeah, I honestly until today, I grew up in a religious and a
Buddhism families and tradition. But to me, God or Buddha's I
think it's in my heart. I think when I'm a kind and good to other
people, it doesn't matter. I'm Buddhist or Christian. I don't really
define myself which one is for real but I respect both. I think both
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have a good... I think they teach people in a good manner. If we
are... I think to me, I believe is a matter how you adapt to it. How
you interpret the theory of their beliefs.
TS:
00:38:37
Yeah. And moving on. So I knew you didn't have very much time
at all with I guess just growing up in the States. But after the first
five or so years when you had a little bit more time. Even though
you're still a parent, which is still a full time job. What were you
able to do for recreation or just time on your own? Was there
anything that you enjoyed?
SS:
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I did not feel or do any enjoyment until my kids were... until I
move to Andover. Until I move out from Fall River to Andover.
Because after I... First I first got divorce I still work two jobs. I've
been working two jobs all my life I think in America more or less.
I started to enjoy my life more around 2006 to seven. I think
around 2007 when I started to drive take my kid on for a ride.
Sometime I love to explore. So the three of us just pack and then
we just go off.
SS:
00:39:48
And sometime I drove start from Mass and turn around to New
Hampshire. Start from 93 came back 95. I just drive around.
TS:
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Oh, okay.
SS:
00:39:56
So I don't have fear. One thing about me that I do not fear I just...
Driving is like therapeutic for me. And that's why I talk about the
driving. And I start to go hiking with friends and stuff. One of
them I know from school and from work. Yeah. So my recreation
started around 2007 and on. But prior to that I didn't... I remember
one of my colleague he was an intern. Like our psychologist who
assigned to work with me.
SS:
00:40:22
He work with me every day. He noticed that I didn't do anything
for fun. He'd go like... I remember he bought me a thick guide
book. And he said to me, "We need to take time off and go far to
have fun." And I still have the book until today and I never done it.
And I remember like a couple of months later he call. "Did you do
anything?" I said, "No." He said, "I bought that book for you to go
and have fun." And I say, "I don't have time." So, yeah. I didn't do
anything until 2007. So literally between 1997 to 2007, I was
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focused in working full time. Two jobs, mom and everything.
Yeah. Student.
TS:
00:40:58
Yeah. Okay. So when you explored, you mostly just drove. And
did you like any places in particular like cities or nature?
SS:
00:41:06
I love nature because I grew up in nature. I love to go hiking. I
love to drive in the mountain. That's why I like to go to New
Hampshire a lot. Even in Mass, I like to drive anywhere that's have
a lot of trees. Because I feel peace and I feel within myself when
I'm around those area. When I go to city I only enjoy for a short
period of time. And normally I just go to city when I go to once in
a blue moon. One of my friend she's grew up here. She try to get
me adapt to go to club. I've been too there I feel like going to puke
there because it's not my environment. I like the city but not... I
would not live there. I will not enjoy. I would enjoy for a
temporary.
TS:
00:41:45
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And just going way back. So what was your
feeling about the U.S. before you actually moved here? What were
your impressions?
SS:
00:41:54
No clue.
TS:
00:41:55
You didn't know anything about it?
SS:
00:41:57
No clue. The first time I learn about the U.S. when the lady told
me, "You need to go there because you can make a lot of money."
And I have no idea what does it mean. I was expecting when she
told me to come here, I thought I would come here and make good
money and stuff. I thought is... I never knew anything about law. I
have no idea. No clue.
TS:
00:42:13
Okay. Did you know anything much about other countries other
than the U.S.?
SS:
00:42:20
Nope. I only... The only country I've been to is Vietnam. This a
border that I went with the lady who are living in Phnom Penh she
went for a treatment. And she took me with her one time just to
help her because she was sick. But that was about it.
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TS:
00:42:36
Okay. So now I'm just going to ask a bit about like comparisons
comparing the United States with Cambodia. So first off, how
would you compare the healthcare system of the United States
compared to Cambodia?
SS:
00:42:48
Day and night. It's uncomparable.
TS:
00:42:51
Describe a bit about-
SS:
00:42:52
So the healthcare in Cambodia growing up, I never seen a doctor.
When I got sick is all home remedy. Home remedy that my mom
made it for me. I remember when I had chicken pox, she soak it.
Fermented some sort of leaves for a few days and I have to take a
shower. Use that water that she fermented that particularly to wash
my body smell horrible. Yeah, it was completely... It can't even
compare, right? So basically if I compare my personal experience,
the time I lived there there's no end.
SS:
00:43:33
Like I say, I've never seen a doc. Or I only see a doctor when I
went to get a medical checkup before I came to America. And I
didn't have any recollection because I was set up to go and tell me
how to answer questions. So it was not for myself. So I don't
remember any... But I know that I was sent to see a doctor and that
was it and I came here. But then prior to that, I never seen a doctor
for any sickness.
TS:
00:43:57
And were there any village doctors in your area or?
SS:
00:44:02
It's only like a magic spell.
TS:
00:44:03
Like shaman?
SS:
00:44:07
Shaman, I don't know how to say it in English.
TS:
00:44:08
Yeah, I think that what it called.
SS:
00:44:09
I remember when I was in middle school, I liked to play like a boy.
I'm very aggressive. I play like a boy game. Like I used a stick to
pick in whatever. And most of my friends are boys too. Because I
can't play with girl. I'm too aggressive for girl. They don't like to
play with me. So, I'm we'll play with the particular stick. And we
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call herng right? So the stick went in through my... I think either
my left or my right eye. So I was I'm lucky that I can have my eye.
SS:
00:44:34
So I was blind for a few months. So when I remember the only
doctor I saw was this old man in my village. And he use his magic
then blow in the water or whatever. He blow in my eye. And I had
to see him twice a day. And I don't know, if his strategy worked or
just it healed itself. But apparently the stick that poked in my eye,
is about bigger than my finger.
TS:
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Oh, my God.
SS:
00:45:01
Can you imagine?
TS:
00:45:01
Yeah, yeah. I can.
SS:
00:45:02
Like I said, I couldn't see anything for a few months I was blind.
But it healed. Right? So if I don't believe I have to believe because
it worked for me. There's no doubt doctor have done any operation
in my eye.
TS:
00:45:13
That's crazy.
SS:
00:45:15
But then came here, it completely different. You know how this...
But then it's hard for me when I went even to see a doctor. When
the doctor ask question, I did not know how to answer properly
because I was in my... First all the language, I didn't understand.
When a doctor question you, he want to hear something you don't
know.
SS:
00:45:36
You just through translation from other just really messed up. It
was a really not a good experience despite the healthcare system
with better. But because the language is make it lost in midway.
You know what I mean? So the treatment worked. But at the I...
Because I never have any medical issues so I don't have a lot to say
about that. Besides just regular medical checkup and pregnant.
And other than that, I don't have any problems that I can share a
lot.
TS:
00:46:05
And how about with your kids? Was it useful, helpful with your
kids? Do they have any big problems?
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SS:
00:46:11
Oh yeah. Actually my son growing up as a baby -- my daughter
was pretty healthy as a baby. And my son was constantly having
fever and he cried a lot. And he also had an ear infection. He was
not a healthy baby. To me every so I knew how to like... If the time
so I have I only have the thermometer with me if the temperature
go up high I always call the doctor. And he always gets seen. So
that is convenient. Excuse me. So that is convenient that I don't...
That's one thing that assure me that I'm not worried if something
goes wrong. I can rely on a doctor.
TS:
00:46:49
Yeah, yeah. And were they helpful during that process?
SS:
00:46:51
Yeah, it was helpful. Even though I'm... At that one day when my
kid was a baby I know a little English already. So I did not need
any more translation. But sometime I need to ask the doctor repeat
things twice or have to explains thing very slowly to him. But
yeah. I didn't experience any much difficulty.
TS:
00:47:12
Okay, okay. That's good. And so I guess your overall impression
of the healthcare system in the States is better?
SS:
00:47:19
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
TS:
00:47:20
A lot, lot better?
SS:
00:47:21
Yeah.
TS:
00:47:22
Okay. And now just asking about comparisons with education.
What do you think the biggest differences are between?
SS:
00:47:30
The differences are over here, if I only look into a narrow two
places over here is a lot like... Again is uncomparable. In
Cambodia the teacher was... Because the teacher in Cambodia was
not well trained first of all. Especially in my time. Most of my
teacher all war survivor. Right? They not were trained
professionally. And there's no professional trainer in Cambodia. So
the teacher taught whatever they knew.
SS:
00:48:00
There's a curriculum that put you know... Put it this way. Their
country, the leader of the country didn't even have education. So
what can you expect, right? So I remember a lot abusive. I've had a
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few of my friend who had to quit school when they're like 12, 10
years old. Because of a lot of physically abused.
TS:
00:48:25
Was it the teachers-
SS:
00:48:25
The teacher. Yeah. If you don't have.... Basically everything
learned through rehearsal. It's not learned through critical thinking.
If you can rehearse it, you good. If you cannot rehearse it, you bad.
There's no mental health involved. There's no diagnosing. If you
slow, you dumb, you stupid, right? If you can catch up, you're
good, you're smart, you are in. And you not smart, you out. That
just how the students were treated then. It was just, yeah. It was
pretty, pretty bad.
SS:
00:49:01
And I feel so bad. I've been back, I met a few friend of mine who
went to middle school. Or I think it was an elementary school, that
they quitted and then they became illiterate themselves. And that
kind of pass on to their younger kid. Because they don't understand
the value education. So that make me so sad in my heart when I
went back and see them that they are still struggling. Now 2000. At
the time was 15. They still live in a lifestyle like they're in 1990.
That's sad for me to see.
SS:
00:49:31
The education has oppressed them. And here obviously, I did not
have a good experience in high school. Because a lot of my
teachers are Portuguese. I got actually put down a lot by my...
That's another thing too. Anyone put me down, I fight back. So one
of my teacher actually in high school here in Fall River. One day I
remember I supposed to read... we all supposed to read the story
about the Oedipus. About the Greeks and pathology.
TS:
00:49:57
Oedipus Rex.
SS:
00:49:58
Yeah. And I remember that time my twin were having a cold. It
was around winter around November, December, I forgot. But it's
a winter time. But despite, I didn't do the homework, I still show
up in class. And then I remember that when she ask, did anyone
read... For those who read the story, the homework that I assigned
raise your hand. Everyone in my class raised them except me. And
she said to me, "You. Why didn't you do your homework?" And I
said, "Because my baby was sick and I did not have time. They
were crying all along."
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SS:
00:50:33
And she said to me, "This is a place to learn. If you want to have a
baby, you stay home. This place if you learn you come here. You
don't then you stay home." And she sent me out the class the whole
time. I'm not allowed to be participate in this discussion of the
topic. And that was hurt I feel like I wanted to learn, but my
circumstance I don't have the lifestyle like these kid have. But I've
push myself to be here. But she did not see it. And then it was
hard. It still affects me until today.
SS:
00:51:02
But anyhow, I want to prove her wrong that I'm not going to give
up. I keep going show up myself in her class until I graduate. So
yeah. But at the same time not all teachers are bad. There're some
are good teacher who has supported me along the way too.
TS:
00:51:17
But it's rough when a teacher like that isn't understanding and just
kicks you out of the class when you just want to learn.
SS:
00:51:26
You know the social justice is an unfair everywhere. The peer it
depending on who you are dealing with. Right? And that's why
when I take sociology, I've learned about it and make me think
about all those. That's why I'm very passionate and have worked in
the society and helping all that. Because I know how people take
advantage of other when you don't have the ability and knowledge
to support and to advocate for yourself.
TS:
00:51:52
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And just moving on. So well actually just a bit
more about the education I was wondering what was the
demographic of the kids in your class? Like what race or ethnicity
were they mostly?
SS:
00:52:09
You mean in America?
TS:
00:52:10
In high school first of all.
SS:
00:52:11
In high school in America? Yes. So I went to school in Fall River.
Most of them are Portuguese. Especially in my time because I was
a ESL student. So all of my... We in high school, but they have a
different program. They have like you guys know who born here,
you under different program. You're on typical program. But then
for us as an immigrant or refugee kids, we are in the ESL class.
And I would say 95 are Portuguese.
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TS:
00:52:43
Yeah, wow.
SS:
00:52:44
Maybe I may lie. Maybe some Spanish too. But most of student I
was with mostly Portuguese. They all spoke Portuguese.
TS:
00:52:50
Yeah. And that was your community as well? Was there a lot of
Portuguese in Fall River?
SS:
00:52:59
Yeah. In Fall River is like Portuguese town. Yeah, it's a lot of
Portuguese. I learned a few words when I was there. All of my
teachers are Portuguese. I would take 90%, 99% of my teacher at
that times are Portuguese.
TS:
00:53:10
That's crazy.
SS:
00:53:11
That's like their town.
TS:
00:53:11
Yeah, I didn't know that.
SS:
00:53:12
They different generations of them living there. So yeah.
TS:
00:53:16
Yeah. And how about your other areas where you lived? What
were they like races mostly?
SS:
00:53:19
When I live in Andover I was in mix. A lot Indian, Chinese and
Caucasian, white.
TS:
00:53:30
Did you live in the suburbs or in the city more? In Andover.
SS:
00:53:34
I lived in a near that in the town. Like near the libraries so near the
school where my kid went to so they can walk. So what I try to do
is that as single mom I always work two jobs to support us. And
also, you know. And again kind of to answer maybe not your
question. But to share that my experience that I'm here not just
trying to support myself and my kids. But at the same time I
support my elder father who and living in... And also my younger
sister. I supported through out since my mum pass away in 2005.
SS:
00:54:12
I supported my younger sister from high school and throughout her
college year there. I paid literally 100%. Her living expense
everything and school tuition and also my dad. So I have literally
four people to take care of. So I always work two jobs. And to live
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in Andover, I have to live near the school so my kid can walk to
school and walk back home while I'm busy at work.
SS:
00:54:36
Because I cannot afford daycare and you know. I'm in the day at
that time in middle school. But yeah. So I live by in downtown.
Near like downtown. Its like a town. Maybe a small town.
TS:
00:54:49
Yeah. It's not that big. So after Andover, where did you go?
SS:
00:54:53
We moved to Cambodia.
TS:
00:54:55
Cambodia for how long?
SS:
00:54:56
So because I got remarried. So my husband worked for UNHCR.
And he moved there first. And then I wanted to bring my children
to learn the culture. And part of me, I work here and I wanted them
to know where the root of them. Right? So when they learn the
culture, right? And also to get to know the family. Because here
I'm just me and them. I don't have any family member here.
SS:
00:55:24
So they lived there about a good two and a half years.
TS:
00:55:27
Wow. That's a long time.
SS:
00:55:28
So I took my twins after they graduate from middle school here,
they started high school there. And then they finished their 10
grade and then we came back.
TS:
00:55:39
Okay. And was it a school that taught English as well?
SS:
00:55:42
Yeah, it's an international school.
TS:
00:55:44
International school.
SS:
00:55:45
Yeah. And I worked there as well. So I worked for USAID project.
TS:
00:55:48
Okay. How do you describe the education system in the
international school?
SS:
00:55:55
International school, the system is not bad at all. They have a really
awesome... We love the curriculum that they have. But the
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problem was that because the school is in the third world country,
the teacher often change every six to nine months or a year.
TS:
00:56:09
Oh, yeah.
SS:
00:56:09
Because people would go there from America, from England or
from Australia or from other parts of the European country. They
went there just to explore. So they live while they live they get a
job to teach. And then when they feel like they've done enough
enjoying the country, they return. And then there's a new teacher
come. And that's something is not good for our kids.
TS:
00:56:29
So you're missing that connection. The longterm connection.
SS:
00:56:31
Right. Right. But they learn. We did not regret any bit of piece of
it. Because it taught my kids a lot about the lifestyle here and
lifestyle there. So that they are understanding that they don't take
anything for granted. They've seen what was happening to people
there.
TS:
00:56:52
Yeah. Did they live in the country or in Phnom Penh?
SS:
00:56:55
While they go to school, we lived in Phnom Penh. But often I take
them to the country where my hometown is. So they spend time
with their cousins there.
TS:
00:57:04
Okay, okay. And I guess going back to high school in America,
was it difficult to adjust or was it-
SS:
00:57:14
Oh my God, yes.
TS:
00:57:15
It was?
SS:
00:57:17
A few time. I came from a culture that girl not supposed to talk to
boy. Walking around high school and see all the Asian. Especially
when I see other white people, I don't know why but my mentality.
When I see other white people, kids kiss each other, hug each other
on the hallway, it doesn't bother me. But every time I see a Khmer
kid standing and kissing with other... Their boyfriend or whatever,
I'm just, "Oh my God. I'm going to have a heart attack." It's like I
don't know why it's in my mentality is it make me feel that's not
okay.
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SS:
00:57:46
But it's kind of like other... Again, I was older student. Like my
when I start I was supposed to be finished already, right? So it's
hard. I didn't have... I only have like two friends. And those two
friends because they Khmer kid and because they wanted to learn
Khmer from me. They still connecting with me nowadays. Because
they want me to teach them Khmer. Which is good that they've
reach out to me. So they help to take care of my baby while I teach
them Khmer. So those, they were my friends.
TS:
00:58:14
Okay. Now I guess moving on. For your work and career. So I
know you had a lot of difficulties adjusting in general. About how
long did it take you until you really got used to the language then
really found you could do well at work and find a career?
SS:
00:58:34
I would say three years later.
TS:
00:58:36
Three years.
SS:
00:58:38
The first year, I got my professional job right away. And I
remember all the job when I stared and when I leave. Because I got
my first job. So I graduated high school June 10 in 2001. And July
10, the same year a month later, I got a job offer at a headstart in
Fall River. So I work in the office, try do translation or like a
school handout and a school handbook and all those to translate
from English to Khmer.
SS:
00:59:06
And then I work there for a year. It was so much mentally abuse. I
would say call and work. It's kind of discrimination because of my
accent because of my grammar is not good. I spoke like backward
and messed up. And instead of helping me, they laughed at me.
And then they treat me like I'm not equal at all.
TS:
00:59:25
Yeah, yeah.
SS:
00:59:26
So it was really mentally-
TS:
00:59:29
Abusive.
SS:
00:59:30
Yeah. Pretty bad. But then I left and then after that I left to the
domestic violence job. Where I had most amazing boss who I still
connect with her until today. Yeah.
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TS:
00:59:42
And after that... So would you say that was your first real career?
SS:
00:59:47
Yes, that was real career at the head start. And then at the domestic
violence that my second year I started it. I worked exactly a year at
the head start. And then the following year I start at domestic
violence as a domestic one coordinator. Again, that was the most
difficult job for me ever. Because it going from working as a
translator, you really don't use your brain too much. You just
translating two languages. Right?
TS:
01:00:10
Yeah. Yeah.
SS:
01:00:10
But then you become like because I speak the language, the Khmer
and English, so they put me to become a program coordinator. And
I have to lead about six volunteers. Not just for Khmer but like
Portuguese, Spanish and Creole and all those people work under
me. And I'm like... So I have to pull myself to be mature. But
sometime I find myself very struggle because some of the
volunteers who are spoke perfect English, while myself have
broken English.
SS:
01:00:39
But then again, I got a lot of support from my supervisor at the
time. And she pushed me and make me move when she sees
something in me and she gave me the opportunity to do it. So I did
it. So after that job, the funding, we ran out of the funding. But
then after that I became more confident more... My thinking
become bigger and I can manage things better. So yeah. But it was
not easy early on. It was a very, very difficult. But again, I'm hard
headed. Things that bothers me is only bothers me for a short
period of time
TS:
01:01:16
Yeah.
SS:
01:01:17
Yeah.
TS:
01:01:18
And how would you say the career path in the United States differs
from Cambodia as well? What would be the traditional thing for
men and women in Cambodia?
SS:
01:01:31
From my personal experience is hard. I mean for man and woman,
I don't... In Cambodia if you talk about my time, I did not
experience or see any... I didn't see a lot of professional work.
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Beside I grew up in a farm. And I saw if people work for the
government, like my brother-in-law, work in army, office and no
female. I didn't see any female work besides teacher.
SS:
01:01:57
I saw a lot of teacher, female teacher, but not male. I mean, but not
any other job. All right. The judge, I know mostly men. That's
what I know. And here obviously I've seen both men and women
working here. But I also aware that's a deep level they are
discrimination. I mean inequality in terms you know?
TS:
01:02:18
Sexism.
SS:
01:02:20
Right. Sexism. That's in a deep level that I become more educated,
more of the work I do. I recognize that too. But to talk about
comparison between here, Cambodia, Cambodia cannot compare
to here with all this.
TS:
01:02:29
Yeah. Yeah. And about your family life? Or just family life in
general. Comparing United States and Cambodia.
SS:
01:02:41
Family like Cambodia, we are close knit. My mother she done an
amazing job as a mother and as a stepmother. All of my stepsibling from my dad side respected my mother. So we are really
we one family. Because sometime I see other family when they
have stepmother and stepfather, they don't get along. But my
family we very close and we support each other. But everyone they
got married, they live on their own home. They have their own
family, they have their own... They support themself.
SS:
01:03:13
And talk about now, things have change. So they do well
financially and educational. And my niece and nephew are well
educated. Some of them got to study oversea and they got
scholarships and stuff like that. So they more like westernize and
more like... They become like a normal, like us here now. Because
of they know English and they spoke English very well. They
written and writing and now the different. But then back home the
parents are staying like...
SS:
01:03:42
Like one of my brother, he bought a house in a couple of city just
to have all of his four children live while they go to school. And
then him and his wife live at home and do the business at home. So
I have three nephew. So in the capital city right now, I have from
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one of my brother, he have four kids. All of them are now in
college. One that the oldest two have graduated already. The two
are still in college and then I have two other nieces both are in
college.
SS:
01:04:10
So, yeah. And the other two nieces they already graduate from
accountant and they went back and got married. They have their
own job and whatever. So a lot of my family, younger generation,
my niece and nephew, they all get college graduate. They all
college graduates in Cambodia.
TS:
01:04:26
So they're beginning to value the education in general?
SS:
01:04:29
They do. They do because they're time is growing up they have
more resources and things have change compare to my time.
TS:
01:04:36
Yeah. Yeah. And how does the family life differ would you say
compared to the United States?
SS:
01:04:45
Before it differ because my brother and my sister, they'd raise the
kid more very controlling way. Like demanding. But because of
my influence, I have to say it because I went there almost every
year. Took my kids there before with prior before I went to live
there. I always go, I went every year to visit. But then I always
influenced them by like... I embrace. I kind of brought the
American ideas of raising kids to them so that they will not put
pressure on their kids. And so when they raise the kid and let them
allow them the room develop and free.
SS:
01:05:21
So the lifestyle between my family and here are not much
different. Like I said, because they adapt. They are willing to adapt
a new culture.
TS:
01:05:31
That's good.
SS:
01:05:32
Yeah.
TS:
01:05:33
And comparing law enforcement United States against Cambodia.
SS:
01:05:39
I get a lot to say. Well everywhere is... Let's talk about the
inequality, right? It's everywhere. Corruption is big time in
Cambodia. In America, I experience inequality. Why? Let me
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share about the America and Cambodia I can share after. So in
2002 I remember I worked in the domestic violence field. One of
my clients, she called me and that she got beat up by her partner.
And I took her right away to the police station. And at that time my
English was still accent. But I still I knew what I was doing.
SS:
01:06:22
So I took her to the police station and try to file a report. And I
asked him. I say, "The apartment belongs to her. He is just a
boyfriend. He come to stay. But then because he had more power
over her, he beat her up and kicked her out of her own apartment
and he stays." So basically I said, ""Sir, I need your help." This
woman she came with a black and blue eye. I mean you don't have
to explain. You can see it. I said, "He is there." I gave him the
information. I said, "This is his name. This is what he looks like.
This is his picture. She has it all."
SS:
01:06:51
And the police said to me, "Well, I'm not sure what I can do." And
then at that time I can tell that he doesn't think that I would fight.
That I would stand my ground. He said, "I see what it can do." I
said, "Sir, I don't accept that answer from you." I said, "I need you
to help my client. She needs to go back home." I just took her back
from the hospital to get a checkup because he beat her so bad.
SS:
01:07:17
And then he said, "Well, I can't speak to him." I said, "Sir, I don't
care if you can speak to him or not. But it's your duty to keep
people safe. And she is the victim of domestic violence. It’s your
job. I don't care what you do. But your job to keep him away from
her. If something happen to her again and violence happen," I say,
"I'm right." And I said, "So just you know I'm writing your badge
number." Then he looks at me like, "Who the hell are you?"
Because I think a lot of police officers sometime they do the work
so well. And sometimes they pick and choose if they want to work
or not.
SS:
01:07:49
So I think my point is that I did experience discrimination because
of my skin color, because of my language, because of my accent. I
did not get treated the way I supposed to get treated. My people did
not get treated they supposed to get treated. They didn't get the
proper protection. If I did not stand up and speak up for her. If I
did not threaten to them, "I got your badge number and if
somethings happen to my client, I'm going to go after you." And
right away he said, "Oh well, I'm sending the guy there now."
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SS:
01:08:18
That's all you need to tell me. You don't have tell, "Oh well, I see
what I can do." Is not the answer, right? And so, yeah. So that is
something I can… that's one example. I don't have to go through
all. But yes, I did. I have experienced discrimination here. Myself
or my client. Because I work a lot. Doing domestic violence work I
dealt with a lot of law enforcement. And myself too I've been
sometime I got... Like one time I get over speeded. I got mistreated
really bad.
SS:
01:08:48
Because I did not know how to explain myself well to him. I did
not know how to communicate to him well. He wanted to arrested
me because I cannot explain why. But anyhow but I never allow
that to be an obstacle. I always stand my ground and fight back.
And if I can't do it myself and I... The good thing too I work in the
field. I have a lot of resources. I knew a lot of lawyers who I can
talk to and can help me out and things like that. But that is what
my point of view. And can you imagine for my client who don't
know the language, who cannot communicate it, cannot support
themself and I can see a lot of struggle. A lot of inequality here for
that.
SS:
01:09:26
Back to Cambodia, there's no law. The law is in the book. I mean
regardless during when I was younger or when I've been back.
Because when I was younger like I said, I always fear for my
safety. Because there's just a lot of raped. So that's why I act tough.
Then as a young age because I'll be show that I'm tough. I don't
want to be afraid of men. Because if you weak and men tend to
take advantage of you.
SS:
01:09:56
And then if you get rape, if you get whatever no one can defend
you. You're on your own. You got pregnant, you on your own.
Become disown by the community. Because there are the girl who
got raped and got pregnant and the community did not accept
them. Because they have a baby before they married but they didn't
ask for it, right? So though there's no law to protect them that
matters. And people beat up each other, people kill each other.
There's no one protecting them during my time and I experienced
that.
SS:
01:10:22
But then until back in 2000. I live there from 2013 till the end of
2015. I work with the government. And I've dealt with them. It's
completely hard for me because I get you to this country when I
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fight for my right, I know my right. I fought for it. I got my....
What's it called. I got my justice. I got the justice that I asked for.
As long as I know how to right fight for it. Over there, it took the
smarter you are, you are become their predator. They become your
predator because they don't like you’re smart. They don't like... If
you speak your truth to them, they don't like you. They hate you,
you become the target.
SS:
01:11:06
So it's like you have to act stupid to be safe. If you speak up, you're
not safe. That simple as it is.
TS:
01:11:14
Yeah. Yeah. So just telling you it's 4:30 right now. Yeah. About 15
more minutes left. There are only a few more questions left. So I'll
just ask the biggest ones. So about your reflection. Looking back
on your experiences, how do you feel about your life now in the
U.S. in relation to your history? Like your past and your life before
coming to U.S.?
SS:
01:11:44
I feel like I'm... I feel strong. I feel powerful. I feel smarter. I think
all the experiences that I've gone through, it had taught me a lot. It
helps me shape me to be a person who I am. That I feel like I'm not
rich in any form of wealth of materialistic. But I'm rich in my
heart, I'm rich in my head that I am not afraid to do anything or to
go anywhere. And I feel very confident in that sense.
TS:
01:12:17
And how do you feel about the new culture now? Having adapted
to it?
SS:
01:12:21
My call, right now I can adapt to it. I accept it. I mean nothing is
perfect. But I know how to work around and live around it and I'm
happy with it.
TS:
01:12:32
What do you like most about the U.S.?
SS:
01:12:35
I like the fact that it provide the freedom. It provide the
opportunity. So it is your choice to grab it or to let it go. So that's
what I like. The opportunity’s there. If you fight or you work hard
enough, it's still yours. But if you don't work hard enough, it's
going to slip be someone else.
TS:
01:12:53
Yeah, yeah. And what do you like the least about the U.S.?
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SS:
01:12:57
I like the least is the... I didn't prepare for this. What I like the least
about the U.S. I think there sometime the politics will... I looks so
perfect. But yet it's so imperfect.
TS:
01:13:14
Yeah, yeah.
SS:
01:13:16
Everything look so great, but when you really in it, it has so many
flaw. Does that make any sense to you?
TS:
01:13:21
Yeah, yeah. It makes sense. It makes a lot of sense. And so what
do you miss most about Cambodia?
SS:
01:13:30
I miss most. I used to. Well I miss my... I can't say I love my
family. But that's not most because I barely grew up with them. I
have been scattered all over the place. I miss the farm that I used to
spend time with my mother there. The organic food that we grow
on our own that we ate. All those thing. The peacefulness in the
forest that we spend together. We grew up with vegetable and I can
climb up all kind of trees I want to.
SS:
01:14:01
Those kind of peaceful. I felt like when there's no shooting, life is
perfect. I don't have to compete with anyone. I just live peacefully.
My mom loves me as who I am. And she provide with the
unconditional love that I couldn't ask for more. That's what I miss
most. I miss to be around my mother and in our hometown. But
just not the same anymore.
TS:
01:14:25
So just about... We're almost done. Just some final thoughts. Is
there anything that we haven't covered that you'd like to talk
about?
SS:
01:14:35
I know I can talk a lot. But I'm sure there's a lot to talk to that still
haven't covered. I feel it cross about me specifically. I don't know.
I feel like I share a lot. But I feel, I like to share that my mission is
not complete. I wanted to give back to the community. I wanted to
do more to help empower the woman to be strong and to be
independent and to... I guess because I work with so many women
from different cultures and background, not just Cambodian.
SS:
01:15:14
A lot of them are like... They don't feel their own value. And
especially in the Cambodian community I wanted to help them to
understand their culture. And I feel like when you don't know your
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culture, you don't know who you are. And that's what I mean about
they did not present themselves. And why I say that because when
I work with women domestic violence, a lot of women try to
please men. And they try to change themselves to a certain way
that is not who they are.
SS:
01:15:47
Like try to make themselves inject the lip or their chest or their
bottom or whatever it is. And then their hair color. I mean it's fine.
You do it for fun. But a lot of people that I experienced and work
with did it because of the need of the society. Because they wanted
to follow, to be fit in. But then they forgot about who they are,
where they come from. What is their food? What is their culture?
What is the language?
SS:
01:16:11
And I think that's something that I... It bothers me. It bothers me
my kid don't speak my language. They spoke, they understand a
little but it's not enough. I want to see them do... I mean it's not just
my kid. A lot of kid. But that's something that I wanted to myself
that I wanted to see improving. I want to see that in Lowell that we
have a Cambodian Khmer. Not Cambodia but Khmer language
being taught solidly. That people can learn thoroughly know how
to spell, know how to read, know how to write their language.
Because I think to preserve our culture is very, very important.
SS:
01:16:54
And that's something I really... I like to share that I really wanted
to work on and helping other. But at the same time, I have to help
myself too.
TS:
01:17:03
Yeah. Just one last question. So what would be your final words or
advice to future generations?
SS:
01:17:15
To try to understand about their parents. Where they come from.
Try to understand what they've gone through. How they get here.
And at the same time ask elder for your root. Where you come
from. I always like... One thing I really, really mean to my kids
that I push them in a way when they don't do a... I kind of like, it's
a shame on you when they ask you who are you and say you
Cambodian. And when they speak, you speak in Khmer. You say
you don't -- think that's very shame. But you don't grow up Khmer,
you didn't speak Khmer. You are Khmer, you don't your Khmer
culture. I think that's a shame on you.
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SS:
01:17:51
I try to... That's a mean thing I tell them in a way not to put them
down. But to make them feel anger so they can learn. But anyhow
but overall, I wanted the Khmer generation to... I don't know, to
have some eager to learn about their language. About their culture.
It's rich. We have rich culture. We have a lot of valuable
information that they should know.
SS:
01:18:17
Look at our country. We have the most amazing Angkor Wat that
known in the world. And on those wall, they have all the Khmer
history in there. Go learn and try to understand where we come
from. How we get here.
TS:
01:18:33
Yeah. Alright. Thank you so much-
SS:
01:18:36
Thank you.
TS:
01:18:36
... for spending your time. I really enjoyed the conversation.
Interview ends
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INFORMANT/NARRATOR: THEL SAR (TS)
INTERVIEWER: SUE J. KIM (SK)
DATE: APRIL 18, 2019
SPEAKER
DETAILS
TS:
I had involved a lot of work... in the past.
SK:
Oh, okay. Great. Okay. All right. So, this is Sue Kim, and I am codirector for the Center for Asian American Studies, and Project
Director for the Southeast Asia Digital Archive. Today is
Thursday, April 18th, 2019, and I am here with Mr. Thel Sar, at
UMass Lowell. We're in the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and
Social Sciences, 820 Broadway Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.
So, thank you so much for agreeing to share your experiences with
us.
TS:
Thank you for letting me being part of it.
SK:
So, I thought we would just start... could you tell us about where
you were born, and where you grew up? We can start there.
TS:
Yeah, I can be briefed with that. So I was born in Cambodia.
SK:
What year?
TS:
In the late 1960s, and I lived in Cambodia through the Holocaust,
Khmer Rouge. And then I, you know, when the Vietnam invaded
Cambodian, I was left Cambodia to come to America. So, I lived
through, and I was one of the few survivors in my family. And on
October 1981, my aunt brought me to America, uh, my
grandmother. And so I had lived with my grandmother. First place
I lived was in Jacksonville, Florida. Yeah, I lived there briefly.
And then I went to Virginia; Arlington, Virginia. Went to high
school there. And after high school, I went to college in
Swannanoa, North Carolina.
SK:
Where did you go into... where did you go in North Carolina?
TS:
I went to a college called Warren Wilson College, which is located
near Asheville, North Carolina.
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SK:
What did you major in?
TS:
My major was in the General Education, specializing in helping
Southeast Asian, mainly the Cambodians.
SK:
Oh, that's fantastic!
TS:
Yeah. So when I graduated from college, I went back to Virginia.
In those times, in Lowell there was influx of Southeast Asians,
mainly the Cambodian immigrants came to Lowell, Ma. And with
the influx, there's a lot of crime. There's shortage of a
professionals. So I was pretty much recruited to come up here, and
to work with Southeast Asian youths.
SK:
So you... where were you at the time? Well-
TS:
After I graduated from Warren Wilson College, I went back to
Arlington, Virginia. And lived there... Stayed there very briefly
then in September, 1991 I came up here to Lowell, MA.
SK:
From Arlington?
TS:
Yeah, from Arlington, Virginia. I was interviewed for a job with
the CMAA of Greater Lowell as a youth counselor. My job
mainly, trying to create activities for youths because back in those
days we didn't have much activities for Southeast Asian youths, so
they mainly hung out with groups, and were alleged to been called
gangs. So the DA... there's a lot of murders, a lot of violence. So
they wanted to create some fun activities for the kid. So my job
was to bring them together, and come up with some activities...
SK:
Oh, I see. I didn't know that you were youth counselor at CMAA.
So, that was from about-
TS:
September 1991 until July 1992, when I went on to work for the
Department of Youth Services for the State of Massachusetts. I
worked there for about nine months.
SK:
Where does... for the record, in the '90s, where did the Department
of Youth Services, where did it fit? Was it related to DSS or-
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TS:
No, the department has its own separate department. It's a
department of corrections, pretty much. It's a Social... Department
of Correction for kids under the age of Eighteen, when they...
committed crimes, they'd go to the DYS instead of the adult
facilities.
SK:
And how did you get recruited into-
TS:
So I... so we... there was shortage of professionals, and [crosstalk
00:04:49] and so, when I was working for CMAA, I went to court
lot to watch trial at the courthouse, and with my degree, the
department of DYS wanted me. In addition, because of my
language skills, I speak Khmer, and I can write and read... fluently.
So I was a good candidate for the job.
SK:
And who's... before you started working for DYS, when you were
still with CMAA, whose trials generally? Was it the kids you were
working with? The family members?
TS:
Yes, it's... kids that I had worked with in the past. And then some
of the... so they needed some kinds of representation from the
community at the courthouse. And I was sent there to be a liaison,
so if people showed up at the trial, they could get me helped
them... translated to them so they could understand the processes.
So my job is to make sure that people who... well, the victims, the
friends, and families, they have good knowledge of what went on.
SK:
So, since you were involved with that, then you started working
with Department of Youth Services, and so what were your duties?
Or what was your position?
TS:
Well, a couple of times when I was with CMAA, when they ran
into problems with language, they asked me to help. So I would go
to juvenile detentions and helped in translation. So that was... they
said, "Look, we really needed you to..." so that's how I started, the
interview, and got position.
SK:
So, the position then was-
TS:
A caseworker.
SK:
Caseworker? Right. I see. And so, what was your job like then?
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TS:
Well it's... I'm from very conservative family. I was like, my job
was to... So I mainly worked with the Cambodian youths and the
parents. When youths committed crimes, they adjudicated them.
And then they sent by the court to the Department of Youth
Services; my job was to investigate their backgrounds, and also
looking into ways to help them... you can't lock them up for life, so
you tried to help them to assimilate back to the community when
they finished their sentences. And so my job was to make sure that
they... when they lived in the community, they followed the
conditions sat by court and the department.
SK:
So this is... so were you a probation officer at this point?
TS:
No, not yet. Not yet. My probation officer job..when I was still
working DYS, you also had to go to court as well. Because when
kids were arrested for serious crime and appeared in court they
would be sent to DYS detentions; I went court to get information
of their background and to report to the department. Sometimes,
court ordered treatments. And some time just to be there to write
down of new court dates or new status of the cases. So I was there
as a liaison from DYS, and that's how I was at the courthouse. The
court was also did not have Southeast Asian worker as well. I was
recruited to go into the position as well.
SK:
In the '90s, what were the biggest problems or issues that you saw
coming up, either on the side of the law enforcement or, or on the
side of the families, or the community members?
TS:
I think; it was discrimination. This community was not prepared to
receive such large group of people. And this community had a long
history of discrimination. People in the community did not treat the
new comes with welcome but hostile. There was lack of services.
There was very little help, and those newcomers knew nothing. So
we had to work hard to help them understanding the systems. We
had to confront many wrong doers that it was not right for them to
treat people unlawfully.
TS:
There was lack of facilities such as schools and playgrounds.
Everything they did was against the law. Until a group of people
say to them, "Look, we are not stupid. We're not dumb. We know
that this is illegal, so you have to treat us right do the right things".
And the leaders in the community started to do more to help the
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newcomers. In one situation, we had to take the city to court in
order to force them to integrated kids in schools and build more
schools. They agreed to build new facilities to accommodate new
students and hired people to represent the population.
TS:
And the kids, they had a lot of free times in their hands. Schools
did not provide good services. Many kids skipped schools and
hung out on the streets. They started label those kids as gangs and
criminals. And I refused to label them... I've been working here for
so many years. I refused to recognize that they're gangs and all
that.
SK:
So court cases goals were to fight racism and discrimination.
TS:
Yeah.
SK:
What were some of those instances?
TS:
Southeast Asian kids were called by bad names and they pushed
them around for no good reasons-
SK:
By other students or?
TS:
By white kids and Hispanic kids. These Southeast Asian kids took
pride in their cultures; they took pride in themselves they were
tough kid too because they had gone through so much in their
lives, in the camp (prison like). So their mentality is like, "No, I'm
not going to take this, and I'm going fight back". And the police
was not helpful, the kids "I'm going to take control of this place,
not you", and then that's how gang started.
SK:
That's a good. How would you describe the relationship between
the police and particularly the youth, Cambodian youth at this
time? In the '90s.
TS:
I think, again, the police didn't have good relationship with
Southeast Asian youths. The police said, "I'm going to step on you,
I know you", and they did it as far as they could to violate those
kids right. There was no hope; “If I did these things, maybe I can
suppress this people, and there's nothing going to happen". I did
not think this was right ways to treatment our youths. I'm getting
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SK:
Let me get some…
TS:
It's okay.
SK:
Very good.
TS:
So we came here to live. We were survivors from Cambodia. We
were legal immigrants. We did not buy our way here. The ways
they treated us was not fair. We knew that. We refused to take
abuse. We came together and said, "Look, we're not going to take
this". But we do this systematically and legally. We had enough
educated people to work with. We needed to change from inside,
outside, and all around. We needed to be humble enough to make
changes. So, my role with the DYS and all, I pulled kids in and
say, "Look, to give respect and get respect, you got to do
something to make sure that they don't... you don't want them to
look down at you, you'll need to do something meaningful".
SK:
Yes. Did you work as... When you were with the DYS
caseworkers, did you work a lot with the attorneys?
TS:
Not as many, but I worked with a lot of therapists and [crosstalk
00:14:29] but again, I wore many hats. So I was always very
active, even though I worked with DYS, I opened Khmer Sunday
School; I coached soccer, and did a lot of other stuffs. We knew it
was a struggle.
SK:
You mentioned Khmer Sunday school. What, what-
TS:
So when first I came here, a lot of kids did not grown up in
Cambodia. However, they wanted to learn Khmer language and
culture. So I started Khmer Sunday School Program by myself.
Even though I wasn't a Khmer teacher, I was able to teach them,
and then recruited teachers. We became a big program, hundreds
of kids attended.
SK:
Where was this building?
TS:
We had to use the old temple in North Chelmsford. We had many
volunteers, and we became very successful.
SK:
How long was that school?
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TS:
10 years.
SK:
And also you were... because you were coaching, what-
TS:
I had coached for a few years. I coached soccer and basketball.
SK:
Was it through an organization or, just…?
TS:
Lowell Youth Soccer and highlander youth basketball.
SK:
So, this... you were a caseworker in maybe '92 to '93 or something?
TS:
Yeah. '92 to '93.
SK:
And then in ‘93 became a [crosstalk 00:16:48]
TS:
Probation officer. March 1st, 1993.
SK:
So how did that happen? I mean, [crosstalk 00:16:54]
TS:
I'd been working with a lot of people, and one day someone in the
Probation Department approached me and asked me if I wanted to
work for the court, "Look, we need someone like you". And so he
encouraged me to apply, "There's a job posting, why don't you
apply?" So I applied. I was interviewed by 3 judges and was hired
two weeks later: 3/1/1993.
SK:
How did your duties change? Where... Were you doing things that
are very similar? Or did it change what you were doing?
TS:
It's almost about the same, but I didn't have to travel much. I was
in the courthouse.
SK:
Lowell District Court?
TS:
Yeah, Lowell District Court. But again like I said to you, I always
wore many hats.
SK:
So what were some other ways that you did that? Was it
individual... conversation?
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TS:
I interviewed people and helped with translation. I directed people
to the right places to get help. I helped recruit new workers. I
spoke to community.
SK:
So, when you mean by kids, you mean... Because you talked about
that you work with both; the defendants… and the victims…
TS:
Yes, I worked with defendants and victims to make sure they
understood their rights.
SK:
You're like an advocate, and a navigator for them in the
courthouse.
TS:
Yes.
SK:
One hat.
TS:
Yes, one hat.
SK:
I've spoken to some attorneys, like defense attorneys, and they
talked about like, who are not Khmer. And they've talked about
how difficult it was to communicate to sometimes the families,
right? The defendants, but also the families, but also the victims, if
there was a language issue. So, did you participate in those
process? I think the legal processes are so complicated already,
right? And so I can't imagine trying to explain all of this sort of
complicated legal stuff in two-year-old court languages.
TS:
So, my goals are to make sure every one walked out the court
house knew that they were served well.
Unknown Speaker:
Open up.
SK:
Oh, hey?
Unknown Speaker:
I just wanted you to say goodbye.
SK:
Okay.
Unknown Speaker:
I'm last one here. Hello?
TS:
Hi.
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Unknown Speaker:
I didn't want to go into...
SK:
Okay, bye!
TS:
So I think that a lot of times, a lot of attorneys did not give enough
times to Southeast Asian clients. They made up excuses because of
languages. There's always a way that they could work with people.
SK:
So, specifically working with probation, is that after a sentence has
been…
TS:
So, individual was arrested, the police job is almost done. They
documented their reports. The next morning, or the next day they
brought the individual to court, and probation took over. Probation
officers interviewed the individual and reported to judges. Cases
decided and found guilty. The individual placed on probation.
Probation Officer assigned to supervise individual. There are many
types of conditions: drug testing, GPS, and Scram and much more.
SK:
What's Scram?
TS:
Scram is a machine... breathing... alcohol testing machine. So we
can monitor it from anywhere. And GPS, just like the car, you can
see the people walking around. So that's... our job is to make sure
that... so we do all that
SK:
And when you monitor them, afterwards, is it sort of regular
checking or...
TS:
So it's different levels. Some are more severe, and some are less
severe. A couple scenarios, like assault and battery on somebody...
they probably get a split sentence. They get two years house of
correction; one year to serve, one year suspended. And the
suspended sentence is the one that they are on probation. Typical
order of probation conditions: drugs counseling, mental health
counseling and many others. And so we make sure that they do all
those things. If they failed to comply with the order then the judge,
their probation would be revoked and sent them to jail.
SK:
So you really are caseworker from the moment that they're arrested
[crosstalk 00:27:13] all the way through to the end of the
probation?
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TS:
And then we prose... at the same time if they violate the probation,
we prosecuted them. So we acting like a prosecutor as well. And
we also do a home visit. Make sure that they... yeah.
SK:
What were the... What was the... Who are the people that you were
working with most in the '90s right? It wasn't like...
TS:
I'm specializing in Southeast Asian probationers because the judge
could impose 20 different conditions, and if they did not
understand then they could not do the right things, then they could
go to jail. So I was assigned to work with them. I was successful in
helping them.
SK:
It was mostly young... Was it youth or all ages or...
TS:
So, back then it was older people.
SK:
Like, thirties, forties?
TS:
No, 20 to about 40, 50.
SK:
And what were some of the...
TS:
A lot of domestic. Gambling... not nearly enough number of drugs.
SK:
What kind of gambling? Actually, I just came out from another
interview, but the attorney…
SK:
Then how did things change like the late '90s to the 2000?
TS:
There's a lot more changes now a day. So there is less Southeast
Asian now. Now this has a lot with... still domestic. There's a good
number of domestic violence, and then it's also not as much
gambling, but not as much drugs either... it's OUI; driving under
influence, a lot of that.
SK:
So, what other kind of things sort of... like your experience, or
your working... your experiences with working with the
community, did things change? As we moved into the late '90s and
the 2000s?
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TS:
Yeah. There's... There are families who were struggling to
assimilate in the US.
SK:
What do you mean?
TS:
You had a lot people from countryside in Cambodia who were not
educated because of the service was not good... those kids dropped
out of school and committed crimes, generation after generation.
SK:
Are struggling.
TS:
Struggling and still of course. They had a lot of kids in troubles,
and their kids trouble.
SK:
So there's... there's the generation-
TS:
Generation.
SK:
I see.
TS:
And then... my son, he is doing research, so his finding is that...
over the summer, did on gang-
SK:
What is he? A student or... here, where?
TS:
He's a student at Wake Forest University.
SK:
Oh, Wake Forest? Your sweatshirt. So is he... what's his major?
TS:
He majored in psychology.
SK:
He did research?
TS:
Research on gang.
SK:
In...
TS:
Southeast Asian Gang. So he interviewed a bunch of gang
members
SK:
Around here?
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TS:
Yeah. And he interviewed with different ages.
SK:
That's fantastic!
TS:
He is the senior, and he going onto Columbia University for his
graduate school.
SK:
For graduate school?
TS:
Yeah.
SK:
Congratulations! That's wonderful. That's great. We need more
researchers on Southeast Asian American studies, but also
researchers who are Southeast Asian American for-
TS:
He's going to be... he's doing clinical psychology.
SK:
That's great. That's wonderful. What kind of things did he find?
TS:
So he saw... he found out that a lot of these kid parents were not
around. Parents disconnected with schools, and no mentor... lack of
mentoring. So those components leaded kids to struggle on theirs
owns.
SK:
Have you seen an impact of a lot of the youth services that have
arisen in Lowell in the last few decades? Like Teen BLOCK, or
UTEC, or Boys & Girls Club?
TS:
They do, they do. I think that the... I have to give them a lot of
credits, and I think they make a lot of efforts. But at the same time,
I think they are not very organized and appeared to be isolated
from each other. I have a task to do, and I'm just doing this on my
own. There is so much need. And I think... and I... So, this is
something that I see. Even UMass Lowell hasn't put a lot of effort
into it. Because I think they feel that we are incapable of doing the
job to maintain our own greater goods. So they don't give a hand.
And when you go and don’t give them a hand, they make it very...
Let me give you an example. So the changes took place in the '90.
So the leaders who were representing the community... two
decades later, 2000, this 20 years, they fired every one of those
guys. They made it a point you have to pass this process or that
process in order for you to stay employed.
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SK:
They fired, sorry, who-
TS:
Teachers. Back in the day they hired Khmer teachers to teach.
Then a lot of those teachers were fired.
And then now a day 97% of teachers and staffs in Lowell Public
School are Caucasian. I think the last time I heard them saying was
that they went to recruit diversity teachers were South Carolina;
Columbia, South Carolina… completely make nonsense.
TS:
And that's why I help find a Community Public Charter School in
Lowell, MA. I was part of that. I was a board member and
chairman for ten years. And the city was not happy with that.
SK:
What were the characteristics or what did you feel like you could
do with the Charter School that you couldn't do otherwise?
TS:
So, we brought in people representing the populations in the city,
so they understood the needs, and they made effort to meet those
needs, and they knew how to motivate, not just kids in school, but
they motivate parents to get involved in school. They don't just
stop saying, "Hey, I saw your kid here". They go to houses and
say, "Hey, your kid is doing well." They make the people feel like
one family.
SK:
And because the Lowell public schools were not meeting the needs
of the community, you had to work elsewhere?
TS:
I can talk about my family, about what I did with us, all that. While
I was at the probation department, I went to school here, got my
Master at UMass Lowell in Community Social Psychology. I was
working with Doctor Joyce Gibson, and since they move on, Linda
Silka… I don't know where she is right now, but-
SK:
She's retired. I know that she's still around.
TS:
So she... they were very supportive.
SK:
Did you know Robin too? Robin’s still here.
TS:
Robins and I were in same class. Yeah. She's really nice. So I got
involved, and from the data they collected, I saw that the data was
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useless to the school, because I know that they will not... I mean
they make some attempts, because they got extra money... to use
that money, but they didn't do a good job and tell them... So I...
from that data, I work on my own family in many ways, and I told
you I (unclear) school with CMAA. So they... in community
there's infighting …
SK:
African-American. So believe me I know…
TS:
Politic all over the community too, but I tried to stay out with it,
and focus on what's most affective... So for my role as probation
officer is to make sure that the kid who wanted to go into law
enforcement, making sure that if they wanted to do intern at the
courthouses, they could do it. In terms of kids who wanted to
become police officers I asked currently police officers to help
mentoring them.
SK:
That is fantastic.
TS:
So we have good relations with them. And also attorney and
anyone who is different, I want them to feel welcomed, and I fight
hard for that.
SK:
It sounds like you've done a lot of work, to help change the law
enforcement... the makeup of the law enforcement. Like you're
saying, the schools have to change. [crosstalk 00:37:48] Have you
seen any progress in trying to get the law enforcement to make that
systemic change?
TS:
So, from my conclusion, they know where to feed the hungry
mouth.
SK:
They know where to feed the hungry.
TS:
And a lot of times when people who got fed they were happy. They
stopped caring about anyone else. Then they stopped helping.
SK:
I saw something in the news, online news in 2017, there was a
People of Color Criminal Justice Conference that you spoke at.
Can you talk about what that was, and what the goals of that was,
and what you did there.
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TS:
So I don't know how they got me to talk about… that, but I was
very straightforward with them. I said... I didn't... I think it's very
challenging, the way... I wouldn't call it conspiracy, but I think it's
the culture that kind of lay these ground that... you got to prove
more, you got to prove more. And so-
SK:
You mean Southeast Asians have to prove more? [unclear] in order
to be better… in order to get the same treatment.
TS:
So I spoke... the other day, I spoke at the Lawrence Academy in
Groton, MA, and my prediction is in the next 20 years, most of
these prestigious boarding schools, there's going to be like 60% of
Southeast Asian in the school, because we got money, and then
we're going to send them to the best schools. Because I saw South
Korea, I saw Japan, China. A lot of times, they do not think you
are qualified to be where you are. So they make it hard for you to
move forward.
TS:
You've got to do the work. Show them how hard you work and
then they will respect you, because if we don't do that, that's not
going to help us. I suggested that
TS:
And then the people who I work with, will come back and say,
"You saved my life.”
I knew an Indian American lawyer. And before she became a
judge, she was a lawyer, and she did not know this court well. And
I used to ask her and say, hey, and I told her you go in front of this
judge, this is how you should do this and that.
TS:
And so when she became a judge, and she is like, Wow! And then
when she learned about my family, myself, and how I was... I'm
not important to these people’s eyes, but I do important things for
my kid and myself, so I only can do these things because I learned
and worked hard. I grew.
SK:
When you were working... when you started working the '90s in
Lowell District Court, were you the first Khmer… probation
officer?
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TS:
I was told I was the second probation officer, the other person, he
only lasted there briefly. He left, but I didn't even know that he
was...
SK:
What about now? How would you say-
TS:
So now there are more of us. There are more Probation Officers. I
recruited more.
SK:
Do you think that we have, in terms of both the police department,
but also probation officers and attorneys... I don't know. Enough is
not the right word. But-
TS:
Are well represented?
SK:
Yeah. Are we well represented?
TS:
We are not. We are not. I don't know whether in 20 years or 100
more years, no. I think, like I said to you, there's plenty of people
here that can do the job, but they don't give them a chance. Not a
chance. Not even a chance. They feel that...
SK:
Like the... there's a parallel between like the schools and like law
enforcement agencies about that there are people out there who can
do the job, but there are not-
TS:
They did not. I gave you the example. I used to coach, and winning
is not just something in my blood, but it's just something that I
work so hard at, you know, and in coaching, they'd rather give it to
somebody else than... But I say to them, I say, I said, "There's no
roadblock that can keep me from going forward", because I will go
forward, and I will make my way far and beyond.
SK:
What else has changed, and what hasn't changed? In the instance
from the 1990s to now? So you're saying that there are some more
probation officers, but we still need more?
TS:
The leadership. So we are lack of leaders of everywhere.
Everywhere.
SK:
You mean... within the community or everywhere?
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TS:
A leader, it's not the people in front of you that you know, and you
see that, that you think is a leader. Leader who’s done well, who
established and accomplished who have visions, and I don't think
they call on them to help with the community. So, they don't call
on those guys. They call on somebody who will say, "Don't worry.
I will say you've done a good job. Keep doing what you do". And I
think that's where things... I give you an example. I don't know
how many times this gentleman screw up. I rather not mention
name. He had violated every ethic rules, he has his hands in every
politic meeting, and he's the best, I guess to the city. You ask me, I
always say... When you want somebody to lead you, let's... you
know, you gave him one time to make mistakes, but if he keeps
making mistakes, I don't think it's a good idea to have that
individual keep leading. That's just an example, and I think this
community, put a blind eye on a lot of... these are so many... I've
known so many people done well, but they are not going to
exhaust all energy to catch fire ... So there are a lot of times we
step back.
SK:
What about in relation to the Lowell District Courts and stuff like
that. How would you describe in terms of community members’
relationships to the court system? Has it improved?
TS:
Excuse me one sec. Let me text my wife a sec.
SK:
Oh, yeah.
TS:
Because I put an alarm at home, so I want to make sure that...
TS:
Sorry about that.
TS:
She's working DCF.. was known as the department of Social
Services before.
SK:
So you are very civic family?
TS:
I think so.
SK:
So do you and your wife and your... you said you have a son. Do
you have any other-
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Two sons. I have two sons. One's working in Boston. He's working
in a financial investment company.
SK:
Do you think that the understanding of the Lowell district courts of
say then the complexities of community members has improved?
TS:
I play a good part of it, because it's... We haven't gotten any
complaint from people. So, I think we have good relationship, and
I think they know how effective I am working with people. So I
think they allow me facilitate, and I don't think we have a lot of
problems with Southeast Asians.
SK:
Have you had any experience with people with orders of
deportation?
TS:
Oh, yeah. I've done... I do, I do. Over the year, so I knew a lot of
them. But I have also been telling them that they would be
deported if they stopped appealing. And I think some of them
stopped appealing, so they get deported.
SK:
And also just because the ground changed under…
TS:
Yeah, the ground changed. It's...
SK:
Because there was no repatriation agreement in the ‘90s.
TS:
I have a good knowledge of all these things, but again, you can
only do so much. And the one who approached me, who asking me
to advocate for them, I was very successful in stopping that
process.
SK:
So, what are some... As we were sort of going towards the end,
what are some other... because you that there are other challenges
that still face the community in relation particularly to the law
enforcement, but maybe just overall. You've mentioned like
leadership issues...
TS:
I think a lot of... I think we as community, I think we still...
because a lot of the infighting, because of lack of transparency...
There's a lot of thing happening, but I don't think it connected well.
And, with that, I think we become more suspicious of each other. I
think it just because of this community. I think that's a challenge.
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And I think not enough kids are going to colleges. I think UMass
hasn't done much to help. I think my son, the last time, I think his
finding it was like I think with 15 to 20% of the kids that finish
college in four years, and they might go back, but I doubt it. And I
think if you want to make a difference, I think they would... their
respond with, "You go and do it". I think their resource they waste
it on keeping people going further in life.
SK:
What do you mean?
TS:
So I... Let me see. My kids went to school, in Lowell, and then I
found the data with UMass Lowell, they're not doing a good job,
lack of parent participations. And I think the kids... They think that
the kids will never get as smart as them. Only a few can get
smarter. And so I said to them, “Getting involved with these things
give you so much more knowledge.” So my children were
exceptional because I told them... I learned from different people
that high school in Lowell, MA is not a good place to have
foundation for colleges. So I made sure my kid didn't go to high
school in Lowell.
SK:
Where did they go to high school?
TS:
My younger one went to Groton School, in Groton, MA and my
older one went to Central Catholic for two years. Sport, academic,
and family were the keys thing. And at Central Catholic, he was
recruited to play soccer at Lawrence Academy in Groton, MA.
The younger one who went to Groton school traveled the world.
He's fluent in Khmer and Spanish. He's a good writer. You can
read his blog color… “Khmer Odyssey.”
SK:
That's great!
TS:
You can learn a lot about family, and he's a... Both of them are
exceptional soccer player, and both of them are... the one... This
younger one is also a musician. He can play 10 instruments. But he
all... Both of them are grounded. At home, they clean, cook, and
help out. And the older one... so when he went to... The younger
who went to Groton schools and Wake Forest University, so he
went to India, France, Italy, Peru, and Spain, and Cambodia. So it's
all funded by the schools. The older ones graduated from
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Lawrence Academy got recruited to play soccer in Kenyon
College, Gambia, Ohio.
SK:
That was a very good school.
TS:
So both of them... and then the... So after Kenyon, he got a job,
two days before graduated. A job, an investment company. And
from there... and so he is there now for over a year. And I told my
kids, because... so my kid always... I keep telling them, say, "I'm
not paranoid, kid" they say, "Why, Dad?" Because you seem like
you (unclear) they discriminate, they racist against... I'm not, I'm
not. They say, "Well, how come?" I say, "Look, if people look at
you again and again and again and, do some facial. So any time
you know they are thinking of you the wrong way about you.
TS:
And then sometime you even overheard conversations or jokes.
And so my kid keeps saying, "That's not true". I say, "When you
get older, you'll know". So both of them run into discrimination.
So now they were like, "Dad, you were right." So I say to them, I
say, "So how are we going to overcome that?" They said, "Well,
work hard. Work hard". My older one is... he's doing well. So he
does that. And on the weekend he fixes houses. He has a girlfriend
whose family owns has some apartments. Very ambitious…
TS:
And the little guy, he goes to Columbia University for his Master.
And then he's going to seek a PHD. And I told them. Look, we
can't change the way people think, but if you have all the answers,
and how hard you work they will ask you. They will ask you. And
that is when they start asking you, and they will impress of how
hard you work, and how much you know. And so those are the...
And we remain humble. In the summer, when the kids are home, I
always make sure that they serve the community. Make sure they
get involved, make sure that they give back.
SK:
Have you ever spoken at the UMass Lowell... That we have a
School of Criminal Justice and Criminology?
TS:
No.
SK:
I think they would be interested to talk [crosstalk 00:58:29]
because you work with this particular... specifically as a case
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worker, Cambodian and [crosstalk 00:58:33] these Asian
American.
TS:
I have a lot of students who... who's interned at courthouse. So I
taught a lot, mentoring them. And recently, I've been speaking to
the kids at the Lawrence Academy and Groton school.
SK:
I think I just... I saw on the paper that Lowell Police Department,
they just had a swearing yesterday or a couple of days ago, with
four new police officers who were all people of color. So there's
slow change.
TS:
Now they need leaders. Someone who are in the circle. Because I
think they... From what I've seen from the outside-
SK:
Lowell Police Department?
TS:
Yeah. UMass and all, they need somebody to sit in, who can
effectively give them a good sense of the community itself.
SK:
They need more people from the community in those leadership
positions?
TS:
Yeah. They, shouldn't just... Like I said, use the same person to
advise them. I have families that I know who sent their kids to
Stanford, Harvard, and many other good schools. They did some
things right. And I think they can say, "Hey, what did you do?
How did you do it?" And I think get back to where I am, I think a
few years ago, they keep saying, "Do you really know what you
are doing?" I think nowadays they start asking me, "Can you teach
me how to do it?" With what I had learned from what I did with
my kids, I told them, I say it wasn't as easy as walking in the park.
We worked hard, and I think I learned something to get them to
there.
SK:
It only took 20 years for people to recognize.
TS:
But end of the day, I remain humble about that. I think the only
thing I can show them is the hard work.
SK:
So is there anything that we haven't talked about that you want to
make sure that... From your experiences?
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TS:
I think in your role, you can do a lot too. Do a lot of integral... We
have all these things. How can we let the kids know in this school?
Reaching out to them, and become their mentor. I think over the
years, the most effective thing that I think that helped a lot of this
kids was by-
SK:
Mentoring.
TS:
Mentoring. And I think if you're like Head of Department... I think
by allowing kids to have access to you. To see that, "Wow, look! I
got a chance to get into this place and I can be there". And I think
that would... The access to all the... It's the lack of access, is how a
lot of kids they... I think this is enough. There's so much more that
they can... And they have potential. They had the same abilities as
anybody else. But I think by advocating them, allowing them to
know about this normal potential, can allow them to go anywhere
... Sky is limit.
SK:
So, that's great. I actually had one more question just in terms of...
For your caseload in the ‘90s, did you... was it mostly from
Southeast Asian Americans? Was it mostly Cambodians, or did
you also have like Laos, Vietnamese.
TS:
I helped everybody. But I think most of them-
SK:
Most of them are Cambodians.
TS:
Yeah.
SK:
What about today, in the 20 teens, right? From 2010 to today,
would you say the number of your Southeast Asian American
cases has changed?
TS:
Yeah, yeah.
SK:
Is it less?
TS:
Yes, a lot less than before. [crosstalk 01:03:05]
SK:
Now you work with just sort of all different-
TS:
Yeah, yeah, all different races.
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SK:
So it's interesting.
TS:
You see the changes.
SK:O
kay, great. Thank you very much.
TS:
I want to show you just a few things.
Interview ends
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL,
MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE,
& INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION
present
Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts
Schedule of Events
Welcoming Remarks
Independent University Alumni Association of Lowell recognition of
Chummeng Soun, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Trailer for Sophileak: Unveiling the Magic and Mystery
Performance of “Sophileak” by Angkor Dance Troupe
Channa Sath as Sophileak (Female Deity)
Virginia Prak as Preah (Prince) Aunaruth
This story is about 2 lovers -- Princess Osa and Prince Aunaruth -- who
were separated by the gods. Sophileak, a female deity who took pity on
Princess Osa, went in search of Osa’s lover. She returned with portraits of
many princes she had encountered, but none of them were the right one.
The princess gave Sophileak her ring and scarf to continue on her search.
In this scene, Sophileak finally finds Aunaruth, who recognizes the perfume
on the scarf. Later, Sophileak will reunite the lovers.
Preview of Apsara Dancing Stone by Angkor Dance Troupe
Full performance on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, at 7pm at Lowell High School
Reading from “Three Flames” by author Alan Lightman, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Discussion to follow.
Book signing and reception
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL,
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present
Rekindling the
Light of Khmer Arts
Featuring Alan Lightman , author of the new book Three Flames
and Chummeng Soun, recipient of a grant from the Independent
University Alumni Association for “Sopileak: Unveiling the Magic and
Mystery,” a documentary about the revival of a classical Khmer dance
Monday, September 23 • 5-7 PM
UMass Lowell - University Crossing Lobby
220 Pawtucket St, Lowell, MA 01854
RSVP at: www.alumni.uml.edu/KhmerArts
For further information, please contact CAAS@uml.edu
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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL,
MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE,
& INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION
present
Rekindling the
Light of
Khmer Arts
Featuring Alan Lightman , author of the new book Three Flames
and Chummeng Soun, recipient of a grant from the Independent
University Alumni Association for “Sopileak: Unveiling the Magic and
Mystery,” a documentary about the revival of a classical Khmer dance
Monday, September 23 • 5-7 PM
UMass Lowell - University Crossing Lobby
220 Pawtucket St, Lowell, MA 01854
RSVP at: www.alumni.uml.edu/KhmerArts
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�You are cordially invited to
a special pre-event reception celebrating
Khmer arts and stories.
4:00
PM
5:00
PM
Pre-event Special Reception
University of Massachusetts Lowell
University Crossing Room 255
Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts
Meet our special guests
Alan Lightman
author of Three Flames
Chummeng Soun
recipient of Independent University Alumni Association
grant for “Sopileak: Unveiling the Magic and Mystery,” a
documentary about the revival of a classical Khmer dance.
For more information, please contact Michael Tith at 978.934.6659
or Michael_Tith@uml.edu
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019
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Engaging Southeast Asian
Families and Communities In
Your Classroom
Saturday, November 2, 2019
OR
Saturday, December 7, 2019
9:00AM to 3:30PM
O’Leary Library, University of Massachusetts Lowell
61 Wilder Street, Lowell, MA
(free parking in Wilder Faculty/Staff Lot, 94 Wilder Street)
Register by Oct. 15 (for 11/2) or Nov. 19 (for 12/7)
at www.uml.edu/sea.
Check-in begins at 8:30AM
Lunch & light breakfast provided
$100 stipend for participation & up to 15 PDPs
About the workshop:
This workshop will focus on ways to increase engagement with Southeast Asian families
and communities. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the diverse histories
and cultures of Southeast Asia, increased knowledge of best practices in culturally
relevant instruction, and awareness of how to engage Southeast Asian American
families and communities using culturally appropriate pedagogy.
Resources & materials suitable for use in elementary to high school classrooms
For more information, please contact CAAS@uml.edu or call 978-934-4612
Presented by University of Massachusetts Lowell Center for Asian American
Studies and the Tsongas Industrial History Center
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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A photograph of Alan Lightman at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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A photograph of Alan Lightman signing a book for a Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event attendee. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Wesnofske, Tory
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-09-23
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A photograph of Dominik Lay at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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A photograph of Dominik Lay, former Lowell School Committee member, holding Alan Lightman's book, Three Flames. The Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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A photograph of James Ostis and Bopha Malone at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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A photograph of James Ostis and Bopha Malone at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Wesnofske, Tory
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-09-23
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A photograph of Alan Lightman and Vanya Run at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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A photograph of Alan Lightman signing a book for Vanya Run, Harpswell Foundation student. The Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Wesnofske, Tory
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-09-23
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A photograph of Alan Lightman at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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Color photography
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A photograph of Alan Lightman, MIT Professor and Harpswell Foundation founder, speaking at the podium during the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Wesnofske, Tory
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-09-23
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A photograph of Angkor Dance Troupe at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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A photograph of the Angkor Dance Troupe members on stage during the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event. Members pictured include Chummeng Soun at the podium, Virginia Prak and Channa Sath in the foreground, and in the background (L-R) Tim Thou, Peter Chea, Kristina Heng, Salina Mam, and Theresa Tha. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Wesnofske, Tory
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-09-23
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University Crossing
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A photograph of Angkor Dance Troupe performing at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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A photograph of Angkor Dance Troupe members Kristina Heng, Salena Mam, and Theresa Tha performing an excerpt from Apsara Dancing Stones during the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Wesnofske, Tory
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-09-23
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Apsara Dancing Stones
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University Crossing
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A photograph of attendees at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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Color photography
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A photograph of Vanya Run (standing), Harpswell Foundation student, and attendees at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Wesnofske, Tory
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-09-23
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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A photograph of Angkor Dance Troupe members Virginia Prak and Channa Sath performing an excerpt from Apsara Dancing Stones during the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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A photograph of Phousita S. Huy at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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A photograph of Phousita S. Huy, Artistic Director at Angkor Dance Troupe, sitting among the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event attendees. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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A photograph of State Representative Rady Mom and Chummeng Soun at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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A photograph of Massachusetts State Representative Rady Mom and Chummeng Soun holding the House of Representatives citation of congratulations for Soun's documentary work. The event, Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts, took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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A photograph of Channa Sath performing at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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Color photography
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A photograph of Angkor Dance Troupe member Channa Sath performing during the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Wesnofske, Tory
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-09-23
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A photograph of State Representative Rady Mom and Alan Lightman at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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A photograph of Massachusetts State Representative Rady Mom and Alan Lightman posing for a picture at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Wesnofske, Tory
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-09-23
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SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.
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A photograph of Chummeng Soun at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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Color photography
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A photograph of UMass Lowell student Chummeng Soun during at the podium during the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Wesnofske, Tory
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-09-23
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An account of the resource
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SEADA would like to thank the following individuals for their work in making this collection available online: Monita Chea.
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A photograph of Joseph C. Hartman at the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event, 2019-09-23
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Color photography
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A photograph of Joseph C. Hartman, UMass Lowell Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, speaking at the podium during the Rekindling the Light of Khmer Arts event. Virak Uy, Michael Tith, and Bopha Malone are visible in the background. The event took place at the Jacqueline and Edward J. Moloney Jr. Ballroom, University Crossing, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Wesnofske, Tory
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Center for Asian American Studies Collection
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University of Massachusetts Lowell
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2019-09-23
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