There are so many people in Vietnam.They have deep eyes and high noses, just like white Americans in Europe and America. They are called "B ki i" in Vietnam, which means "dust of life."
From this title, we can see how low their social status is and how miserable their lives are.
Of course, they have reason to be discriminated against in Vietnam because, in general, the Vietnamese think that they are of unclean origin.Although their mother was a Vietnamese woman, their father was an American who had invaded them for 14 years, bringing them profound disaster.
But now things have turned around, Vietnam, the country seen by Chinese netizens as a "white-eyed wolf", for China, which once helped it wholeheartedly, directly disregarded people, but for the Americans who have invaded them, but no gratitude.
Why do Vietnam people forget hatred and embrace the arms of the United States? At a time when US-Vietnam relations are improving, has the social status of these mixed-race children living in Vietnam also reversed?
Dust of Life: The American Species Born to a Vietnamese Woman
In 1989, a musical called "Miss Saigon" was released on Truuri Street in London, England. The play is set in the Vietnam War and tells the transnational love story between an American soldier and a Vietnam woman.
In the play, a young American soldier who is still single is sent to Vietnam, where he falls in love with a Vietnamese girl and has a child.
However, the good times did not last long. After the defeat of the US military, the soldier returned to the United States with his troops, and there was no word from the two since then.
In order to save her love, Vietnamese girls went through hardships with their children and finally found their husbands in America, but they already had someone else.
In the end, the indignant and helpless Vietnam woman chose to commit suicide, thus ending the tragedy.
In fact, during the 14-year Vietnam War, examples of Miss Saigon were abundant, and the reality was even more tragic than in the drama.
Except for a few people who sincerely fell in love with American soldiers, most Vietnam women were coerced by the invaders.
At the time, because of the destruction of the American aggression, the Vietnamese economy faced a collapse, many Vietnamese women were virtually unfamiliar, in order to survive, they could only sell their bodies, provide certain services to these aggressors, because of the improper measures, many of them therefore conceived American children, and gave birth to a mixed-blooded child.
In addition, there are many Vietnam women who become pregnant as a result of violence by the US military.
As invaders, the US military never took the so-called "autumn without crime" seriously. They often went out to the barracks and wantonly violated Vietnamese women. Even the US military in some places, in order to improve morale, also learned from the Japanese invaders and started the so-called "comfort women".
In 1975, the defeated American troops were forced to leave Vietnam. When they withdrew, the American military issued a notice,It is not allowed to bring Vietnamese women back home, even if they are genuinely in love.
When the Americans leave, these Miss Saigon and the American mixed-blood children she gave birth to will be in trouble.
According to statistics, during the entire Vietnam War, at least 25,000 American mixed-blooded children survived in Vietnam.
For such a large group, the post-war Vietnamese government and ordinary Vietnamese people can be said to have discriminated against them in various ways.
In the view of the Vietnamese, these strange-looking guys are the blood of the aggressors, the garbage of the Americans, and are not worthy to be called Vietnamese citizens.
As for their mothers, Vietnamese are more cold-eyed.
Some people may say that many of those women were forced by the US military, and there was nothing they could do.
In this regard, the Vietnamese believe,Since they have lost their chastity, why can't they preserve their chastity with death? After all, starving to death is a small matter, but losing their integrity is a big matter!
Even if they don't want to die, why can't they abort the child? In the end, they insist on giving birth to the child. Isn't this deliberately leaving fire for imperialism and becoming traitors to the country?
Under widespread discrimination in Vietnam society at that time,These Vietnamese women who have had relations with the U.S. military were not only forbidden to marry again, to form new families, and even to drive them out of their homes in order to preserve their family’s reputation.
After the 1980s, these mixed-blooded children began to grow slowly, but Vietnamese discrimination against them did not slow down, they were not allowed to go to school for literacy, factories refused to recruit them, and even some local government agencies refused to give them ID cards.
We know that the main reason why these mixed-race people are treated so unfairly is that the Vietnamese hate Americans who have committed heinous crimes in their homeland.
Since they have been discriminated because the U.S.-Vietnam relationship is bad, but now Vietnam is all kinds of likes to the United States, can the fate of these mixed-blooded people be reversed?
When Vietnam forgot about aggression
After defeating the American invaders, resulting in national unification, Vietnam, with the support of the Soviet Union, became another invader.
In 1978, Vietnam launched an aggression war against Cambodia, and at the same time, the invasion of the North had been fully aided by China.
Faced with such a "white-eyed wolf", the Chinese government was intolerable, so in 1979 launched a counter-attack against Vietnam's self-defense, causing a heavy blow to Vietnam's most developed northern regions.
But in the 1990s, the Chinese, who advocated peace, forgave Vietnam's "white-eyed wolf" behavior and began to ease relations with Vietnam.
Regarding China's friendly signals, the Vietnam government is on the surface grateful, but secretly it incites anti-China thoughts and keeps making small moves in the South China Sea and other regions.
Of course, Vietnam itself knows that it cannot defeat China with this little strength. More importantly, its big brother, the Soviet Union, has disintegrated at this time and no powerful country can help it anymore.
But Vietnam is still thief, so it decided to look at the world, to find a new boss, to come together against China.
Who to look for? Vietnam thought of the United States, which has the strongest military strength in the world, but the United States thought that Vietnam was a traitor and directly rejected Vietnam's request for cooperation.
After several years, after US President Donald Trump came to power, the United States began to pursue an anti-China policy, causing tensions between China and the United States.
At first glance, Vietnam saw that the opportunity came, so it quickly threw an olive branch to Trump. In order to check and balance China, Trump also felt that Vietnam was very valuable, so the two countries hit it off and began to collude.
However, we know that the United States invaded Vietnam for 14 years, during which it did all the bad things. The Vietnamese government was so pleasing to the United States that it was really not afraid of people's protests.
Don’t say that except for some elderly people, the young people in Vietnam today are simply grateful to America, why?
In these years,For the sake of the so-called "overall situation," the Vietnam government has deliberately downplayed the history of U.S. aggression against Vietnam, but focused on the threat posed by China.
On the other hand, the Americans are too good at buying people's hearts. They have nothing to invest in Vietnam, build a factory, and increase job opportunities for some Vietnamese people.By the way, I have nothing to do to help Vietnam clean up the remnants of the bomb mines during the aggression, expressing my reflection on the aggression.
So has the situation of these mixed-blooded children changed in the context of Vietnam’s forgetting of aggression and joining the American arms?
The Vietnamese society today.Discrimination against them has indeed decreased a lot, especially in the minds of young people. It is no longer very important who their father is.
In order to express its pro-U.S. position, the Vietnamese government dedicated them to the "symbol of reconciliation between the two countries".
However, certain discrimination still exists, after all, not all Vietnamese are blind, and will really completely forget about American aggression.
In addition, those with a strong traditional view of chastity do not have much favorable impression of them. After all, their birth is indeed shameful to these people.
Of course,Forgetting aggression is tantamount to betrayal, but remembering history is remembering history and shifting the responsibility of Americans for aggression to these poor mixed-race children is not a glorious act.