Part 2 - Challenging the Stereotype: Do Vietnamese People Eat Dogs?—Literature by Andrew Lam
Read part one of this article, "Part 1 - Challenging the Stereotype: Do Vietnamese People Eat Dogs?" here. Vietnamese people are often cast into a number of stereotypes. This often prevents meaningful interactions with those that do not know them. In Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost, a collection of short stories, the protagonist in the story "Yacht People" challenges the stereotype that Vietnamese people eat dogs by turning the narrative into a parody: How are you doing t