A new Vietnamese mural brings East San Jose residents agency.
The mural’s three panels — which depict Vietnamese people fleeing their homeland, a woman in cultural dress and the beauty of Vietnam — is a first for the East San Jose Asian American community. The artwork evokes the history of the Vietnamese American community in a city with the greatest number of Vietnamese residents outside of Vietnam. It also claims to be the largest Vietnamese mural in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to District 5 San Jose Councilmember Peter Ortiz.
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