The United States got involved in an arrangement that is still somewhat inexplicable, until war end in the early 1970's. The U.S. government was then compelled to compensate these individuals for such a miserable encounter. Butler describes the way these individuals, stripped of their freedom and rights in their own country, feel about their migration to the South. How they were held at fault by the ignorance of some Americans. The Vietnamese culture had to pick up from a bare minimum to revitalize their dignity in a place they now consider home.
Slavery is very common in the history of the South.
Although the South is depicted as a family oriented society, not too unlike that of a country setting, the war between the races is what's more exemplified in it's culture. Their slaves, originally migrated from the South African tribes, and were distributed amongst the North and the South in America, as they sought freedom of oppression. These individual suffered years of hard labor and torture, when they thought they were venturing to a land of the free. However, they were misled by the government. Slaves they were, slaves they would remain.