In 1975, the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, and Vietnam was reunified, and for the war-torn country, the departure of the United States was exciting.
But the Americans are gone, but the war wounds they have left behind cannot be immediately healed, the bomb craters everywhere, the disabled Vietnamese soldiers, the refugees who have lost their homes... Everything proves the cruelty of war. In addition to this, Vietnam has also produced an extra batch of children who should not have appeared.
Life is like grass mustard
These children are American-Vietnamese mixed children born to American soldiers and local Vietnamese women, and it is obvious how the children came from, the "discipline" of American soldiers is known all over the world, and fierce battles cannot stop them from having fun. In the hearts of American soldiers, these Vietnamese women were humble beings, and they were willing to prey on innocent women in prisoner-of-war camps and make them their own playthings. Other American soldiers were prepared to see that Vietnamese civilians were poor in the war and were willing to pay a sum of money to buy a Vietnamese woman to serve themselves.
This is equivalent to finding a good and cheap nanny, and these Vietnamese women who are occupied by the Americans are either poor or helpless, and they can only rely on the US military. Despite the hostile relationship between the United States and Vietnam, who can protect them in that environment?
Obviously, the U.S. military has no affection for these women, although they have made a home in Vietnam and even had many children, but when they are about to evacuate, they still ruthlessly abandon these Vietnamese women and their children in Vietnam, without even leaving a single living expense.
These mixed-race children of Vietnam were unblessed from birth, their fathers were dismissive of them, and their mothers were unable to raise them. Moreover, for many Vietnamese women, these children are evidence that they have been harmed by the invaders, and they cannot face these children with American blood. Therefore, soon after the withdrawal of American troops, a large number of mixed American and Vietnamese children were abandoned on the streets.
Some reporters call these children "dust of life", born like dust, fate like grass, their birth is the wrong set. These children can not be said to be Vietnamese, let alone Americans, they have no belonging, the appearance of mixed race makes them particularly conspicuous, can not integrate into the local Vietnamese group, some Vietnamese residents see these mixed race, they will think of their fathers, the anger of the war vented on them, even if they are beggars, they are the most discriminated beggars.
There is nowhere to go
The large number of children living on the streets is a serious social problem, and after the US military left, there were as many as 50,000 mixed-race children left. But the Vietnamese government at that time really did not have the strength to solve the problem of these children, the war had just ended, everything was in ruins, most of the Vietnamese people were starving, who could take care of these children?
As a result, these children are isolated from society and can only survive by begging or child labor, and some children will follow the old path of their mothers and become lovers of others at a young age.
In the final analysis, the United States is responsible for this, for the fate of these mixed-race children, the international community has been pressuring the United States, many people with pity in the United States have also asked the government to think of ways to give these mixed-race children a place to stay, but at that time, the relationship between the United States and Vietnam was extremely tense, Vietnam of course did not allow the United States to come to Vietnam to pick up people, until the eighties, the two countries finalized an agreement on this matter, the United States in 1987 issued the "United States and Asian Mixed People's Law", The bill allows 21,000 mixed-Race-American-Vietnamese children and more than 55,000 family members to settle in the United States.
According to U.S. policy, as long as the father is American, these mixed-race children can obtain American citizenship, and their mothers can come to live with them in the United States. At this time, the situation of Vietnamese mixed-race children has become better, and even become a fragrant feast in China.
Because the situation in Vietnam in 1987 was different, the perennial poverty made the Vietnamese yearn for the developed countries that were full of wine and green, and now these mixed-race children have become a group of "Americans" with legal protection, and they naturally have status.
Compared with Vietnam, which is difficult to survive, 50,000 mixed-race children are naturally willing to try their luck in the richer United States, and things will not get worse for them anyway.
Of course, the United States is not a paradise, mixed-race children still suffer discrimination in the United States, in Vietnam they are the children of invaders, in the United States they are unpopular second-class citizens, the Discrimination against Asians in the United States is very serious, plus these children were born in the fire of war, people look at their eyes somewhat complicated.
War crimes
Moreover, their American fathers are of mixed character, some of them accept their Vietnamese family members out of guilt, but some of them are reluctant to recognize their children. What's worse is that many of the American soldiers who fought in Vietnam in those years actually had families long ago, and these Vietnamese children were just their illegitimate children, and these Americans were unwilling to let a sudden mixed-race child disrupt their peaceful life.
If they are not accepted by their fathers, they will have to enter the social welfare centers of the United States, but even so, this life is still much better than in Vietnam, at least they can get enough food and go to school. For these suffering children, to have a bite to eat is already a dream comparable to heaven.
Now, nearly half a century later, the American-Vietnamese mixed-race children of that year have gradually taken root in the United States, their situations are different, some are very lucky, they can break out of the entertainment industry with their mixed-race beauty, or be lucky to receive higher education and touch the threshold of American high society.
Of course, most of the mixed-race children are still ordinary people, and their circumstances are somewhat similar to those of some immigrant families, and they are struggling to survive in the complex society of the United States. Today, Vietnamese mixed-race children have entered all walks of life in the United States, and their lives are still a past that cannot be looked back, but there will always be new hope, and maybe one day they will be able to break the shackles from society, but it is bound to be a long road.
As for the mixed-race children who did not go to the United States, they grew up with their mothers in Vietnam, and now they are also integrated into the Vietnamese crowd, and the smoke is gradually fading, and there will be fewer and fewer people with the same background as them, which is a fortunate thing.
The fifty thousand mixed-race children of the United States and Vietnam are the most lamentable part of the shadow left by the war, these children cannot choose their parents, but must bear the consequences of the war because of their own lineage, but the initiators of the war have forgotten all this lightly. Sins should not have been borne by mixed-race children, they were merely innocent beings in war.