As 1 of those 125,000 Vietnamese settlers in the US, we were scattered around the country by random sponsorship and government design. Few communities were over-burdened and countless studies revealed no significant spikes due to early Vietnamese immigration in the 1970's. Personally, my family was shown the apartment, explained how to use heat and air (1 up and down control), appliances with few handles... Within, 30 minutes we functioned properly and our community of 70 families had no fire and killed no dogs, cats since. 1 time, local papers reported a story of Vietnamese catching wild ducks at the park and turtles at the ponds... Hurt and angry as well as having mastered enough English language in college, I pursued the journalists (2) to find out Vietnamese were not the only people taking wild ducks home from the park ( implied eating ) but others as well ( implied for pets only) and the pond authorities hired summer helps (2 Vietnamese HS kids) to manage overpopulation. That's it