I Was A Boat Person: Vietnamese Refugees Look Back 

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We have around 200,000 South Vietnamese refugees here in Orange County California. They are good card carrying conservative Republicans, and an all around great addition to Orange County. They have helped keep Orange County a conservative stronghold here in Southern California. We love them.

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Of the million+ who came to the USA not many were generals or politicians.

Steve, It would be very tough to locate them without knowing the last name. Good luck.

You should take this to social media

that is true good point

*Idiots like you are quick to point out a few mistakes made by Americans and ignore stuff the other side did that were 10 times worse.* Vietnam today actually prefers not to delve into past war crimes because that would also expose the far greater purge of 900,000 Vietnamese by communists after the Unification of Vietnam in 1976, 2 years after Americans left. Even during the war, the South Vietnamese police and their families were targeted by insurgents and brutally tortured and murdered by Vietcong, and the surviving families had a blood debt to these criminals. Even today, most South Vietnamese survivors in America are Republican, and there are those refugees who would make American Neocons blush. They even say now that Vietnam is capitalist, it should return the control of the country to the legitimate South Vietnamese government. Let's not forget even after all that, the Chinese invaded Vietnam in 1979 with no declaration of war. Just like the late Ho Chi Minh (father of North Vietnam) predicted. Actually Ho Chi Minh wanted to get official recognition and support from America to fight off the Chinese threat, but after McCarthyism, American expertise on foreign matters just wasn't the same and the administration thought communists were all in league with each other. (Yeah, it's stupid. Brezhnev even tried to nuke Beijing after China invaded Damansky Island in 1969, but Nixon threatened him to back off and gave China billions of dollars and free industrial tech to kickstart its economy after all the shit Mao Zedong did to destroy Chinese culture and industries.) Are you forgetting South Vietnam actually invited America and several other allies to defend itself from North Vietnam, and even refused their request to invade North Vietnam and destroy it once and for all, because America thought China would invade Vietnam (without declaration of war, just like the fascist Japanese at Pearl Harbor) and escalate the war to WW3, like the same shit they tried to pull in 1950 Korean War? The evil puppet regime of North Korea would have been a footnote in history were it not for China attacking the UN peacekeeping coalition of 16 nations, you know! (They got banned for that. Until Nixon gave them a seat in the UN and also a permanent seat in the UN Security Council equal in power to US, UK, France, and USSR) China repays this by using state-controlled hacking institutions to bully honest hardworking citizens of the 1st world and stealing their technological inventions and Intellectual Property... *$250 billion dollars EVERY YEAR.* (That's more than the 2018-19 state government budget of California which is $197 billion. Note that Cali is America's richest state with $3 trillion total GDP, and if it was to secede as an independent nation it would be 5th richest country in the world, richer than France which has double the population of California, and neck-and-neck with India... but India has 35 times as much ppl as Cali.) This isn't cold war type government-to-government espionage, it's straight up government-sponsored theft from foreign civilians. But the Chinese fascists bought out the American media by handing them a couple billion dollars and buying them outright so average Americans are lulled into a false sense of security and thinking Russians are the real threat. Little Putin's Russia actually has a lower GDP than the southern half of Korea, a die-hard pro-American ally which was saved by the UN from Chinese invasions.

@@CrabTastingMan murdered by words

And they never will

@@CrabTastingMan A few????!!!!! Amerikkkka is the most violent and criminal country known to earth.

You are correct. I was one of those boat refugees

@@michaelle7637 I hope you are doing well, and I'm sorry that the American Government deserted you and your people. I was just 18 myself.

@@1mparcher I am doing well . Love ❤️ the US . Americans are amazing people and I am proud to be a US citizen .I am actively engaging in our country politic by voting in every single election . Thank you for caring that’s all the matter. Take care.

@@michaelle7637, I was in the infantry; I had my mother send me candy and toys for the kids in the Villages. I will never forget their faces when I gave them gifts. Kids really suffer in wars, eh?

@@1mparcher I hope you can come to visit Vietnam now. US- Vietnam relationship is excellent thanks to US Veterans like yourself , our late Senator McCain , Former Secretary of States John Kerry, and many others who had contributed to this extraordinary relationship where we let go the painful past of both countries and build a better-peaceful future with full comprehensive cooperation.

Much respect for what she and her fellow countrymen faced and overcame.

Okay, John

So someone named “John” lived in Asia?

@@beetlebook225 I don’t live in Vietnam anymore. I live in Hawaii

You don’t have proof of that, so please stay on subject lol

Mankind at war you have a point . for the most part they could care less about american culture and traditions. keep to themselves alot of the time. do not appreciate the opportunities here. i know someone that is a Muslim doctor here and he dislikes america. why are you even here then if you dont love this country? ?? if you ask most vietnamese im sure they will tell you otherwise

+Mankind at war So true!!

I live in an area in Melbourne with lots of refugees from both Afghanistan and Vietnam (Noble Park, halfway between Springvale and Dandenong). I do not think what you're saying is true. Both groups work hard and are respectful of Australian law and customs. If you are speaking from first-hand experience, then I suppose you're entitled to your opinion, but if you're just repeating what you hear and see on the TV, then it's probably best to listen rather than speak...

Sposchy Mostly more about America.

Mostly muslim people did that, the purpose to come to america for the better future is not much, just for themselves, remember in America we are united, to build and make this country better and better not to come here to devide the country down well, then we have no future.

we can't let everyone in though, and we have to have documentation, and we have our own population to add to it. SO we can't just let everyone come in.

@@carliea.6157 well I mean of course there has to be some system but we’re a nation of immigrants. Building a wall and wanting to lower immigration rates is just un-American.

My Dad Experieniced Saigon Fall.

My grandad died in the war. We support North Vietnam

I’m so sorry to hear this. It breaks my heart to hear that the country that I am from can be so cold and callous. Not all Americans are this way. But there are certainly too many that are.

@@jamiecolter5156 I know not the whole country is that way, but we were arriving at a new country and place and were unable to move around until we found the right community. We had to leave again to avoid more problems

Europa Man Japan accepted 10,000 Vietnamese refugees.

Europa Man Yes, most were granted Japanese citizenship and their Vietnamese citizenship was relinquished because Japan does not allow dual citizenship. It happens to any foreigner to applies for Japanese citizenship: his or her original citizenship was officially relinquished by the Japanese Immigrant officials. And no, Japan does not allow birthright citizenship. Each person must go through a rigorous process in order to grant citizenship. No exceptions.

Europa Man last time I checked I'm not the only demanding shariah law or forcibly change the culture.

True i can see there are Vietnamese that can't speak English and required a translator. But in my case, not sure about yours, but these things are mainly for the elderly Vietnamese that can't speak English very well no surprise there. As far as the public education, i have not seen a single Vietnamese group demanding the public education to be taught in Vietnamese. I do see some high schools offering Vietnamese courses but that is only for foreign language requirements. Overall the younger generation, such as myself, mainly speak English. "But mostly, Vietnamese live in large ethnic enclaves, like Chinatowns, that exist to subvert US criminal and income tax laws with money laundering." True i would not deny that happening but i could tell you that any other racial group can also do the same thing. For example, Eastern Europeans and Italian immigrants can also participate in money laundering and other criminal activities within a well establish group i.e the Mafia. But i would like to ask if you have any evidence to back up your case please?

You are mistaken with the Hispanic community. I never heard Vietnamese community asking the government to have Vietnamese to be taught in public school.

let's be honest if your country was rife with airstrikes and political instability you would run away too right? real hypocritical of you to criticize syrians who flee their country due to violence

Very well said. When Vietnamese refugees move to another country, they work really hard and respect the country and culture that gave them their 2nd chance. Alot of them are grateful and became succesful. When Muslims like Syrians move to another country they are lazy and expect handsouts. Worse they force their culture into said country like wanting the Shariah law implemented.

Yeah, *Idiots are quick to point out a few mistakes made by Americans and ignore stuff the other side did that were 10 times worse.* Vietnam today actually prefers not to delve into past war crimes because that would also expose the far greater purge of 900,000 Vietnamese by communists after the Unification of Vietnam in 1976, 2 years after Americans left. Even during the war, the South Vietnamese police and their families were targeted by insurgents and brutally tortured and murdered by Vietcong, and the surviving families had a blood debt to these criminals. Even today, most South Vietnamese survivors in America are Republican, and there are those refugees who would make American Neocons blush. They even say now that Vietnam is capitalist, it should return the control of the country to the legitimate South Vietnamese government. Let's not forget even after all that, the Chinese invaded Vietnam in 1979 with no declaration of war. Just like the late Ho Chi Minh (father of North Vietnam) predicted. Actually Ho Chi Minh wanted to get official recognition and support from America to fight off the Chinese threat, but after McCarthyism, American expertise on foreign matters just wasn't the same and the administration thought communists were all in league with each other. (Yeah, it's stupid. Brezhnev even tried to nuke Beijing after China invaded Damansky Island in 1969, but Nixon threatened him to back off and gave China billions of dollars and free industrial tech to kickstart its economy after all the shit Mao Zedong did to destroy Chinese culture and industries.) Are you forgetting South Vietnam actually invited America and several other allies to defend itself from North Vietnam, and even refused their request to invade North Vietnam and destroy it once and for all, because America thought China would invade Vietnam (without declaration of war, just like the fascist Japanese at Pearl Harbor) and escalate the war to WW3, like the same shit they tried to pull in 1950 Korean War? The evil puppet regime of North Korea would have been a footnote in history were it not for China attacking the UN peacekeeping coalition of 16 nations, you know! (They got banned for that. Until Nixon gave them a seat in the UN and also a permanent seat in the UN Security Council equal in power to US, UK, France, and USSR) China repays this by using state-controlled hacking institutions to bully honest hardworking citizens of the 1st world and stealing their technological inventions and Intellectual Property... *$250 billion dollars EVERY YEAR.* (That's more than the 2018-19 state government budget of California which is $197 billion. Note that Cali is America's richest state with $3 trillion total GDP, and if it was to secede as an independent nation it would be 5th richest country in the world, richer than France which has double the population of California, and neck-and-neck with India... but India has 35 times as much ppl as Cali.) This isn't cold war type government-to-government espionage, it's straight up government-sponsored theft from foreign civilians. But the Chinese fascists bought out the American media by handing them a couple billion dollars and buying them outright so average Americans are lulled into a false sense of security and thinking Russians are the real threat. Little Putin's Russia actually has a lower GDP than the southern half of Korea, a die-hard pro-American ally which was saved by the UN from Chinese invasions.

@Eric Lee I learn a new thing but from 2nd to 3rd pharagraph I saw something is missing. When the Vietnam was split into Nort and South Vietnam?

I agree with Crabtastingman, Candyman the vast majority never blamed the US troops of everything, yes there were massacres and war crimes, yes they existed. In all armies and wars, but the vast majority of the South Vietnamese people were greatful for the USA to join our fight against the NVA. Yet, these people never blamed USA in this video. Stop making assumptions

Either way, Vietnam is their root

@@nickviet9274 Nope, you are partly wrong. North Vietnamese is a communist regime whose government owns the people. South Vietnamese believes in freedom of choice. They have different beliefs in their lives.

North Vietnamese also fled as well!

Will R Do you actually know history ? For your information, the United States accepted 125,000 Vietnamese refugees during the spring of 1975 and a few thousands (mostly former soldiers who fought on the US side and they were sent to re-education camps or prisons after the war) were offered the chance to immigrate during 1990s with the condition that the US government would lift embargo on the Vietnamese Communist government.

They fled because of the Viet Cong oppression, stupid

That's not quite true.

Syrian are criminal 😝😡

@deplorablechump8758, Afghanistan situation is basically a carbon copy of south Vietnam's. We hepled south Vietnam fight the communist of north Vietnam for 20 years. Then, we negotiated with the communist and let them take over.

And now most of them support a conman and felon to destroy the democracy of the this country.

there is no such thing as "moral obligation" there is no right or wrong.

2015, not 2020. And those aren't refugees but danger for all of Europe.

Korean refugees?

+Jesper G what is your definition of integrate?

Because you want us to eat pork, drink alcohol, to be naked without our will and at the very end to be you. Integrate means to speak the local language and work. To accept the justice system and if this wouldnt do that "Many" muslims, it would be waaay worse here. we will never give up our religion, we will never give up our existance and dignity. Just like the jews, we wont loose against your discrimination and antisemitic phrases

+Mr. Gold That was the answer I was looking for.

+Jesper G We aren't all racist. But some of us definitely are, as your comment proves.

***** How is my comment in ANY way racist? Please explain...

That's white people lol we have our own culture

Why are there straws in your eyes

Because there was a war in vietnam in the 70s so many people left to migrate to different countries

Ariiuki san but why not too many now ? Or do we rarely here abt it

Because there is no war, thus less people are migrating

Ariiuki san oh, I guess they're different from Korean , Chinese , Mexican , or Arab migrants then.

Plenty of Vietnamese still come to the US. It's just not a news story anymore.

does that matter?

You are an uncultured pleb. YOU THINK THAT THE "reee" MEME IS FUNNY, IT'S A DEAD MEME!

Well then mr unlimited mind how about you limit your mind to mind your own business and worry about the boat people mate

@@bigboibeckgamer7683 you speak Greek or did you have to look it up. Normies like you are what is ruining the meme economy with your minion memes and such.

Also I believe we go to the same school, was this a link from our English class?

απεριόριστο μυαλό this was a humanities class

My parents fled Communism. Living under the new regime for ten years was unbearable.

+Berkan Celebi Where the heck did you get your information! The north acted worse than animals! My family experienced it first hand. The american soldiers were no angels and yes they did horrible things but the communist soldiers were even worse in pure brutality! They skinned people alive, robbed and raped civilians as they pleased, hacked people into pieces with machetes, smeared honey in orifices and let ants eat them alive etc. In our village, they even put a bounded man next to a road and forced everybody who passed to cut a piece out of him until he died! Our soldiers had a lot of trouble fighting them because they hid among the civilians and used them as cover. Every civilian killed was a victory for them because they knew some would join them out of hatred or the world press would solely focus on us as the bad guys. They were a huuuge inspiration for the same middle eastern terrorists we are fighting today. No one wins a war by playing nice. South Vietnam was a much better place than north to live in. Even South Korea and Singapore were not on pair with us back then. The north didn´t won militarily but because they were able to cut the us support by affecting the public opinion in USA, while Soviet and China kept supporting the Hanoi government. As my uncle said: "It´s hard to win a war when you are out of bullets and gas". After the war they started to hunt down everybody who actively supported or worked for the southern government. The common people were sent to re-schooling to learn communist propaganda while they did hard labor (slave) jobs. My fathers´ friend who was a soldier had to clear mines with his bare hands while the higher ranking officers were executed together with their families. My mom told me how horrible these propagandaschools were. People were taught to spy on their fellow citizens because the loyalty to the communist party was way more important than your own parents. You were hit and tortured if you didn´t obey and my mom still got scars on her body to this day. They lived in fear every night because the "secret police" would knock on peoples´ door during night if they had any suspicion that they had any anticommunist beliefs and take them out for a "chat" promising your family that you would be right back. Most of the time they would never be seen again. To say that they didn´t do any crimes is a HUGE LIE! Vietnam has at least open more up now and started to enjoy some of the benefits like more open societies in the west. I am sure we would have prospered a lot more like South korea and Japan if south had won the war a long time ago and be in a much better position today against China.

trngo Sorry but South Vietnamese people left without the regime taking place after the invasion they ran away fearing of an evil regime the USA taught them

+Berkan Celebi The regime officially took over in 1976, when Hanoi officially mandated communism/the command economy in southern Vietnam. My parents fled in 1984/1985. They fled the Communists.

trngo Ok (sorry for the confusion) but most did flee before 1976.We can argue if communism is bad or not or if Vietnam was communist