Sweet woman. Wishing her lots of luck. She shows that she is the owner of her dream and destination. No doubt that she will make sure all her dream/wishes will come true. Lastly, the definition of success lies in one's happiness. She is indeed a happy woman.
I'm impressed watching this video. Especially when you started speaking in Vietnamese because it's touchable when you let the lady to express her thoughts completely. As I heard from her interview that eventually they're moving back to Vietnam. It's so nice. I understand that feeling and it's no wonder. Many young people came to America after their dream but finally they feel how they truly need their culture around them. It's not regarding all people, don't get me wrong. Most people.
Hope to meet you in Vietnam. My friend, Nina (Denmark). She told me about you. I hope I can take you back to hometown. Ca Mau. Sorry for my English. Take care and thanks for all your videos.
very beautiful video . one very important think she still love own country vietnam . she want to go back to own country vietnam one day . its so proud for her as a vietnamese .
I just had a haircut done by her for the first time in June 2019; she has been in Chinatown (for like 10 years), I think. I saw a Viet TV show, on a TV screen. (I have been to Hoi An one time, for the first time ever, last year.) Great job by Linda ! A hard worker with a sense of humor ("you cut your hair, in the front, too short !") : "You have to control yourself." - Linda This is such a fun and great story, by Kyle Le Dot Net.
You really are my favorite RU-vidr who does the Vietnam Beat. I'm good friends with Caroline--the professor--whom you interviewed. I slept on the same couch you did!
I love you videos so much! They are so sweet and heartwarming. I always think of my family after watching these. I used to live in Hawaii myself and it’s a pretty small Vietnamese population so it was hard to stay in touch with my culture and food sometimes. Thanks for sharing this!
Another great video, Kyle. Been watching your other videos. Can you do a video about Rung U-Minh(U-Minh Jungle) down at Ca mau. Consider that as suggestion idea. Cheers,
On 2Wheels I remember the Vietnamese boat people on the TV news in the 1970's. Did the US set up a detention camp for them in Guam??? When I vacationed in Florida in the 1970's there was a young Vietnamese woman who patiently spent all day fishing on a wharf with a stick and string and she was actually catching very small fish, while 2 little kids were running around her. We felt so sorry for her that we gave all the bigger fish that we caught with a real rod and reel and professional bait.
My mother (who is Filipino American) was a reservist for the US Navy Nurses Corps. 1970-1994). She was called up to help with the evacuation/transition in 1975. They weren't called detention camps, they were called a refugee transition center. It was in Asan Guam, where the world war II memorial park is still located (they were housed in a National Park). Mom made friends there who are now living in the Orange County area of Ca. Mom visited with them over the years (we lived in Long Beach Ca and Mom's duty station until 1994 was the old Long Beach Naval Hospital until it closed. My father actually took us to Guam for two weeks to visit Mom (she was deployed there for three months) and we played (us 3 kids) with the Vietnamese kids at the camp. My Father is also a immigrant (Innes County Clare Ireland immigrated in 1959 to Los Angeles with granny when he was 13 and a only child). So my father is very sympathetic to immigrants and he always taught us kids to have compassion and charity.
On 2Wheels Long Beach, California was Asian gang central in the late 70's and early 80's. If your Mom was Pinay, do you know what the TBS13 tattoo means?
@On 2Wheels, this fucking paleface asked you about Asian gang shit. WTF? Why didn't he ask you if your dad knew any Westies or Winter Hill mob guys? Fucking racist.
No, but I would pass by that shop when I went to the park right across the street from it. I am also Việt Kiều and was friends with the son of the family that own Phở 97 in Chinatown. I think the restaurant you had the lẩu at used to be Phở Mỹ Lan, which was right under the apartment I used to lived in.
I find growing up in Hawaii there were VERY few Vietnamese, mostly Japanese and flips. But in 2018 with economy in Central Vietnam it surprises me they make this move, the cost of living in hawaii when i left in 2016 is almost 20x higher than Vietnam.. These VN are on some baller status :) :)
Getting though the last 3 minutes of this video, my above comment makes more sense to me - This lady is probably going to be forced to move to the main island of America or back to Vietnam. 3 jobs and getting by isn't that normal in Hawaii living but if your on that track its not going to last long. Plus our state is starting to fork out a lot of work to the philipines and main land America (Also the military is starting to automate a lot of work too )
You should do a Video of the Vietnamese living in ARkansas! Andrew Zimmerman even went to go see the Vietnamese community in Fort Smith Arkansas for his tv show
[ In addition to the good questions that Kyle posed, I was curious with some questions of my own. How did Linda feel when she heard that Saigon fell in 1975? How was her path of assimilation into the American life, especially with the language barrier? She said that she visited Vietnam and came back with no money. What happened? Was she too benevolent and gave all her money away? Maybe a few extra minutes of video time would have scratched these curious itches of mine. ]
Bạn ơi nếu được làm thêm vietsub cho mọi người lớn trong nhà mình có cơ hội được coi với . Ba mẹ mình muốn coi video của bạn lắm nhưng nhiều khi nói nhanh quá người lớn không bắt kịp . Thank for all of your video .
I so loved this! I respect how she went to ask Madam Pele for guidance! I also live in Hawaii and I am 3rd generation Japanese. Locals are very spiritual and do believe in spirits, God's and Godesses. Not all but many! I have respect for her! Thank you for sharing her story! You can really see and understand the sacrifices she has made to stay here. It is really expensive to live here and she has made it through thick and thin! The question I have is since she owns her own business will she receive SSI and be able to live back in Vietnam or will her husband receive SSI and a pension to survive or will they both have to go back and work.
Well, if she's been saving money like she mentioned in the video, she and her husband will be able to live well in Vietnam. The cost of living is much lower.
Cheryl Medeiros me too! i also loved that she asked pele for guidance. although i'm not hawaiian blood too but i'm hawaiian at heart :). born and raised here in the islands and was touched when she said that. nice!
steelmill 701 I bet all those people are wishing they asked first before all their homes burnt down. I'm sure the land was cheap but living in a possible pathway of a lava flow is not the brightest thing. Every time they capture Tutu Pele in the lava flows. I just wish she would stop soon! She is messing with my allergies!
SHE IS NOT WORK FOR PHILIPPINE BASE..WHAT I UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE SAID IS SHE WORK FOR MAYBE US BASE BUT LIVE OUT SIDE THE BASE WITH OTHERS PEOPLE ( THEY RENT A HOUSE TOGETHER ).
hung nguyen You are correct. Linda worked in a house for Filipinos that worked on base. When they fled the fall, she was with them at the airport. They told her, come with us! Leaving all her possessions behind, not even having time to tell her family, she made the quick decision to board the plane to the Philippines. This began her journey to several places in the U.S., ultimately to Hawaii, another spontaneous decision, where I am very lucky to have this terrific lady as my friend.
I will be going to tell my government now that you're renting out your public housing unit. To some Vietnamese family. You're not allowed to rent out your public housing unit. It's against the law immigrant. You can go to jail for 10 to 20 years if you keep doing that.
[ Hey Brian: From my own family's experience, I can say that the cut-off age for fluency in a foreign language is about 11. If you move to another country after that, your brain is just hard-wired for your native language and you'll never be fluent in your new country's language. From the fact that you used the expression "OMG" - I'm guessing that you were born in the USA and you're in your twenties. Picture yourself moving to another country such as Saudi Arabia. Even if you live there until you're 100 years old, I would bet anything that your Arabic speaking skills would be the same as this woman's English speaking skills. In short, it’s not how long you’ve been in your new country. It’s how old you were when you came to your new country. ]
I think if she has an opportunity to learn English, she would. She was working 3 jobs to take care of herself and maybe her family. As a result, she is too busy to learn English properly. I'm amazed that she learns English just from her work and even speak at that level.
Hire My Camera Dot Com-you're spot on with your assessment. My mother came to Canada is '83. She was 27 and I was 6 years old. She would work long hours and I never saw much. She did tried to go to English school but could never grasp it enough to be fluent. Fast forward 35 years later and it has slightly incrementally improved over the years but not to the point that it will ever be fluent. Also, you absorb and retain more at a much younger age. So this new generation is quick to be judgmental and not understand the challenges that our parents went through after the war with the mass exodus.
