Reflecting History

In this episode, I had a chance to sit down with Lan Cao and Harlan Van Cao. We discussed a number of topics, including:  Lan's experience and life as a refugee of the Vietnam War and how that experience reverberates in Harlan's life, immigration and assimilation, discrimination, identity and the importance of finding equilibrium and balance in life, memory, letting go vs. remembering, the bystander effect as it relates to relationships and conversations, social media and it's drawbacks, modern day high school culture and experience, and the concept of the American Dream. I really enjoyed this one, hope you do too.    Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao are the authors of Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter (Viking; September 2020).    Lan Cao is the author of Monkey Bridge and The Lotus and the Storm, and most recently of the scholarly work Culture in Law and Development: Nurturing Positive Change. She is a professor of law at the Chapman University School of Law, and an international