It soon became clear that Saigon would be taken over by the North Vietnamese government. Their sympathies lay more or less with the government of the south, but they say they had no particular beef with the communists. Duc was a low-level civilian government employee, and Mai stayed home with the children. She wound up being sentenced to ten years in prison.īefore Saigon fell under communist control on April 30, 1975, the war between the north and the south in Vietnam was fought with friends and relatives on both sides of the battle.Įven so, the Tran family (their names have been changed at the family's request) was as unaffected by the war as possible for a family living within earshot of the bombings. It did not even matter that the 38-year-old former DPS teacher of the year was there to be sentenced because she had admitted to a half-dozen sexual assaults on their son, who at the time was twelve years old and not yet four feet tall. It did not matter to them that teacher Ava Owens was led into the room in shackles, or that the room was Courtroom 10 of Denver District Court. So because bowing and being respectful are expected, that is what the parents did.
"We have an expression," says Miller, "that God is first, and then the teacher, then the parents, then the other family and community, and then you are on the bottom. Nothing unusual about that, says Diana Nga Miller, vice-president of a community support group for Vietnamese immigrants to Colorado. They smiled an almost embarrassed smile, waved and bowed their heads.
Nowadays, pornographic websites, like Pornhub, are leading the industry. Long gone is the reign of magazines, videotapes and even DVDs. Porn consumption parallels the evolution of technology For this reason, it could be discussed that even though women do consume porn, in terms of frequency men are the main consumers. A quarter of responding men visited such websites at least once a week in France, whereas only three percent of women declared that they visited one in a week. In 2014, French men were more frequently visiting pornographic sites than women. In other words, women also appear to consume porn.Ī gender-gap in frequency of porn consumption Furthermore, approximatively a quarter of visitors were women in other European countries. However, Sweden and Poland female visitors of Pornhub accounted for 35 percent of all visitors from their countries. This can indicate that pornographic viewing remains an activity mostly done by men. In Europe, men are the main visitors of the porn website Pornhub. Is porn consumed only by men? It seems that this stereotype is still partly true in 2019.