May 20, 2008 7:50 pm US/Pacific
Actress Helped Spark Vietnamese Business Trend
(CBS 5)
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After the Fall of Saigon in 1975, actress Tippi Herden helped Vietnamese women at a refugee camp near Sacramento.
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Vietnamese-Americans now make up about 80 percent of manicurists in California. The trend came about after a Hollywood actress from an Alfred Hitchcock movie offered Vietnamese women help.
After the Fall of Saigon in 1975, Tippi Herden helped women at a refugee camp near Sacramento, touched by their plight. Herden noticed they were good with their hands and good businesswomen. She brought her manicurist to teach them and a business trend was born.
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