Refractions are not reflections — they bend, distort, and reshape. Just like exile.
This series documents the inner terrain of diaspora:
- Language friction
- Cultural grief
- Strategic inheritance
- Postcolonial Vietnamese thought
What We Reflect
Vietnamese identity in diaspora
Memory and exile
Language, history, silence
Myth, grief, and inheritance
Southeast Asian cultural strategy
South East Asia needs Refractions!
WHY WE WRITE FROM THE EDGE…
Featured Essays
The Country That Lives Between My Ribs
What it means to be Vietnamese when you’re not quite here nor there.
The Inheritance of Silence
On growing up in the space between war stories and silence.
Paper Walls and Glass Ceilings
Modernity, ambition, and the cost of forgetting who we were.
Why This Matters
Diaspora isn’t a wound — it’s a weapon of story.
Refractions Series reclaims the Vietnamese voice in a global noise.
Essays are published in English by Jay Nguyen. Emotional clarity meets strategic soul.
Refractions Series
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