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The Vietnamese term bụi đời ("life of dust" or "dusty life") refers to vagrants in the city or, trẻ bụi đời to street children or juvenile gangs. From 1989, following a song in the musical Miss Saigon, "Bui-Doi" [1] [2] came to popularity in Western lingo, referring to Amerasian children left behind in Vietnam after the Vietnam War.
Prior to the Amerasian Homecoming Act, many Amerasian children faced prejudice in Vietnam sometimes referred to as bui doi ("the dust of life" or "trash"). [4] However, after the act many of these children would be called "golden children" since not only could the Amerasian children move to the United States, but so could their families. [ 4 ]
In Atlanta, Georgia, John now works for an aid organization whose mission is to connect Bui-Doi (from Vietnamese trẻ bụi đời "street children," meaning children conceived during the war) with their American fathers ("Bui Doi"). John tells Chris that Kim is still alive, which Chris is relieved to hear after years of having nightmares of ...
Shimakawa noted in the song "Bui-Doi" there is no mention of the Vietnamese mothers of these children who are portrayed as being the exclusive responsibility of their American fathers, which appears to suggest that to become American, the Vietnamese heritage of the "bui-doi" children must be suppressed as the musical seems to be arguing that a ...
Dust of Life, also known in Vietnamese as Bui Doi, is a 2009 film by director Le-Van Kiet, who also wrote the screenplay. Plot Since ...
The Beautiful Country is a 2004 drama film set in 1990. It is directed by Hans Petter Moland and starring Damien Nguyen, Nick Nolte, Bai Ling, Chau Thi Kim Xuan, Tim Roth, Anh Thu, Temuera Morrison and John Hussey.
After arriving in Cuba, she met Bui Huy Toan, another Vietnamese student, whom she married in 1992. [4] In 1993, on the way to their honeymoon in Moscow, they left the plane during a refuelling stop in Gander, Newfoundland, and asked for political asylum in Canada, which was granted. [3] The couple now live in Ajax, Ontario, and have two ...
Bụi đời redirects here, even if the song is the "primary" use of "Bui doi", this article is not titled "Bui doi". Bui doi should redirect to the musical, or be a two-pages DAB , but there's no valid reason to disambiguate this page as "Bụi đời" is not a stylization of "Bui doi".