25 Sep Four Asian Students Stage Brilliant Yearbook Stunt As Final Farewell To “Racist” Remarks

School can be rough. Especially, when you are Asian with the popular Vietnamese surname, Nguyen. It is estimated that 40% of Vietnamese people have the surname, making it one of the most common in the world. Unfortunately, this often prompts people to falsely assume that people with the surname are related.

Anyone with the surname Smith, Taylor, Jones or Roberts, will all know a similar pain. But, for Alice, Kim, Theresa and Vivian Nguyen, enough was enough. It was time to set the record straight…

The four girls – who are not remotely related – chose to unite for one final class project for their high school yearbook. It was here that they corrected their fellow students, who had incorrectly presumed them to be sisters over the years.

The yearbook is an inevitable part of graduating from school. Filled with inspirational quotes and photos of students with questionable haircuts, it serves as a permanent reminder of your youth. With time moving at an alarming rate in adulthood, a yearbook freezes the past. Flicking every page prompts an explosion of memories, some bad, some good and most, embarrassing.

However, for the Nguyen “sisters”, every time they revisit their yearbook they will be reminded of the empowering moment when they made a stand, against those who believed them to be sisters…

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