This is when they were warring, too. So tension was high. We knew then that it was working. Too often we want to lecture to kids. We need to listen, not lecture.
Violence takes many shapes and forms and comes in many different ways.
For the people in the Vietnamese community, the immediate perspective is the war. After being here for 25 years now, Vietnamese women are beginning to see the values of being an independent woman. There is this thing about conflicts in marriages because of the traditional values and the modern values that leads to a lot of domestic violence situations. I see environmental violence being very prevalent in low-income neighborhoods, in the form of advertisements to kids for alcohol, cigarettes, and selling substances to kids. There are a lot of conflicts among different groups.