00:00It's going to be five decades in that we've been calling this home.
00:03It's a story of how people who've survived trauma in another country
00:07resettle in this new country and create a space for themselves.
00:12Wow, this is all how it started.
00:15You have it right here in front of you, the market.
00:18Market means all the culture.
00:21Vietnamese, Lao, Thai, Cambodian.
00:24Never forget, I am man.
00:26As long as there was an address, a cassette tape was being recorded.
00:30Oh, this is right.
00:32Hi, kid. This is mom.
00:361987, the first group of the Mondrian leader came to the United States.
00:41Wherever you go, there's a Hmong community.
00:43There's a farming community.
00:46It's a proud moment to say I am a queer Cambodian American.
00:50Being there, I got to see my culture through the queermens.
00:54We've come a really long way.
00:58Now that it's the 50th anniversary, are people more aware of what happened?
01:03So much of our history has already been lost due to colonization and imperialism.
01:08I have to learn all these things about myself.
01:10How do I do that?
01:11You know, the only way I do that is to really remember my past.
01:15We struggled these past 50 years to heal.
01:19And I hope that in the next 50 years, we start to thrive.
01:27My generation is putting so much work into getting those stories.
01:32I really try to build with folks and just be in community.
01:36Building a generation on the well is about having this knowledge of who you are.
01:40You know, if we're not in your history books, we got to make our own history books.
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