Documentary

[Sayha or bust. 71]

Has any one of you seen this documentary? "Daughter from Danang: American Experience". Really didn't know much about our president shipping over American- Vietnamese orphans(most were not) to the United States, big money for the child brokers. Take a look at it on Netflix, be prepared to shed a tear.

Edited September 24, 2010 by Sayha or bust.

[hniHnitsuJ 8]

Has any one of you seen this documentary? "Daughter from Danang: American Experience". Really didn't know much about our president shipping over American- Vietnamese orphans(most were not) to the United States, big money for the child brokers. Take a look at it on Netflix, be prepared to shed a tear.

Many thanks for sharing this story... so sad.. my tear drop about 1975....

[Dan_P 5]

pretty sure i saw part of this on tv. sad story indeed about the different cultures.

you can read more about it here:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/daughter/filmmore/index.html

you can also read the transcript here

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/daughter/filmmore/pt.html

[Sayha or bust. 71]

pretty sure i saw part of this on tv. sad story indeed about the different cultures.

you can read more about it here:

http://www.pbs.org/w...more/index.html

you can also read the transcript here

http://www.pbs.org/w...ilmmore/pt.html

Thanks for the links I will read to see the if they ave any updates since this film was made. It made me angry that the daughter didn't do any research on the Vietnamese culture's, I think a lot of shock and pain she suffered wouldn't have been so great. It also didn't helped that she was raised in a home where there was no love or affection, and control issues by the adoptive mother.

[Dai. 7]

My wife saw this last night and was infuriated at what the family did. Her theory was that the mother shipped off the daughter to hide her from the husband before he came home from the war and now all of a sudden 20 plus years later they all see her as a ticket to take the whole family over to America. Right when she got off the plane the mother asked her to bring her over to America already, my wife was bothered how the mother showed so much fake affection the whole time and that the whole family saw her as a "$" sign. She gave her sister money and then she had the audacity to demand more money. That's like giving a homeless person $20 but he says it's not enough and that he wants more. The journalist lady probably left earlier because she couldn't take the deceiving family anymore. I think in the end it's right for what she did, she just needed to close the door on them. I know I would have done the same thing if all my family did was asked for money all the time.

Edited September 30, 2010 by Dai_Tx

[Sayha or bust. 71]

My wife saw this last night and was infuriated at what the family did. Her theory was that the mother shipped off the daughter to hide her from the husband before he came home from the war and now all of a sudden 20 plus years later they all see her as a ticket to take the whole family over to America. Right when she got off the plane the mother asked her to bring her over to America already, my wife was bothered how the mother showed so much fake affection the whole time and that the whole family saw her as a "{}quot; sign. She gave her sister money and then she had the audacity to demand more money. That's like giving a homeless person $20 but he says it's not enough and that he wants more. The journalist lady probably left earlier because she couldn't take the deceiving family anymore. I think in the end it's right for what she did, she just needed to close the door on them. I know I would have done the same thing if all my family did was asked for money all the time.

I didn't really see it in that light. What I didn't understand why her mother would sleep with American GI while her Vietnamese husband was fighting the war. I didn't really think the mother was fake towards her daughter. I Can't relate to the daughter but I wasn't offended when my fiancée would give coffee money to the older family or elders in the Village. I will help my wifes to be family in a heart beat as long as the bills get paid in the states first. Like I said she seemed ill prepared before she went to Vietnam and really because of the way she was raised by a non emotional or loving mother made her incapable of loving her biological mother.