By Ashley Sharp, Irene Gonzalez
May 24, 2024 / 4:38 PM PDT / CBS Sacramento
SACRAMENTO – This month, CBS13 is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI) and spotlighting mental health awareness.
For many Asian Americans, their families made sacrifices that helped build a future for them in this country. But for the older generation, those sacrifices resulted in trauma that’s hardly talked about.
From being forced into an internment camp, excluded by society, or arriving in the U.S. as refugees of war, generations of Asian Americans have endured painful stereotypes, racism, and cultural prejudice.
“I escaped Vietnam when I was eight, and I arrived in the U.S. when I was nine,” said Dr. Carloee Tran.
Tran is an author, clinical psychologist, and a refugee of the Vietnam War.
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