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Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

Abstract

Informed inspectors suspect Vietnamese Americans associate with the Republican Party because of the model minority mindset and their bond over the anti-Communist attitude. These two components created a sense of Vietnamese American nationalism in the refugee community. A way this Vietnamese American nationalism sustains is through ethnic media, which comes in many forms. The most prominent one is YouTube, where many Vietnamese voters (specifically the older generation) gain their political information from. This research seeks to explore how Vietnamese voters make their voting decisions based on the information that they consume by analyzing the content of the four most popular ethnic news media YouTube channels. Findings suggest that Vietnamese elites mobilize voters by using anti-communism rhetoric to justify their support for a particular presidential candidate or political party.

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