LAist Studios’ new podcast 'Inheriting' spotlights Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences. This episode centers on the Cambodian genocide.
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What Victoria Uce doesn’t understand is how she and her sister were raised with so much warmth and love, even though her parents experienced harsh and traumatic childhoods. While in the brigade, her father often suffered from starvation.Long Beach is home to one of the largest Cambodian communities outside of southeast Asia. Cambodian migrants first came to the city in the 1950s and 60s through study abroad programs. Between 1975 and 1994, more than 150,000 Cambodians migrated to the U.S.
“I did notice that with me and my sister, our hunger cues were definitely a lot more skewed than most people,” Victoria Uce says. “I would eat past full, because I was always told ‘I didn't have food growing up, so you're lucky.’ So to this day I still hate wasting food. But I also have to work around my hunger cues.”The Khmer Rouge fully claimed power in Cambodia on April 17, 1975, after the regime captured the country’s capital, Phnom Penh.
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