My father is the most important person in my life and we share everything together. However, the experiences he would never share with me come from the time he was a Vietnamese boat person, trapped in a Malaysian refugee camp for nearly two years. Thank you so much Carina for giving me some insight into what it must have been like for him. It makes me all the more grateful that he survived through it and I am so incredibly proud to call him my father.
It is common for people who experience trauma not to share with their kids. All my life I was wondering what my father really experienced during world war II. Je never told me. When Ukraine war started, my mom had flash backs, bringing her trauma of World War Il bombings back. Only then she told me a little.
Thank you for sharing these powerful stories, Carina. I am a former refugee mtself. My tears just keep flowing out of my eyes as I'm listening to your speech. I posted this video Om my Facebook page. May God always bless you.
I love the Vietnamese here in the USA. My father in law was an officer for the police in Saigon. He went to reeducation camp for 6 years. They only let him out because he almost died. My wife and her mom had to go visit her dad to bring medicines and such. His reeducation Camp was by a mountain kinda by Cambodia.
It isn't the people in their home countries who were doing them harm. If they had stayed loyal to their own countries they wouldn't have been attacked by pirates. Burglars want better lives. That is why they invade other people's homes to get a share of what the legal residents have worked to pay for.
@@chriswatson1698 Let's put you in this situation and please let me know if you want a better life or not. The communist comes to your house and take away your parents, you, or your siblings at night without any reason and who knows where they are either dead or alive. You can not work because you are on the blacklist working for the previous government. If you work underground and get caught, they will take everything that you have and put you in jail for years. You can't go to school and your kids can not school either. In short, you can not survives under the communist country unless you are communist. Their intention is slowly killing all their enemies with times or whomever does not agree with them, period. So you only have two choices. One is stay in the country and slowly dying in pain or two is run away and hope to survive. All boat people are legally entering the USA with a long and painful process. They came to the USA and worked very hard to earn for their living. Do you why? They have a chance to succeed in live and opportunities everywhere in the US. All you need is to set your goal and work hard for it. I was a boat people about 35 years ago and I am very successful person in the USA today. I have a great family now and earn a six figures yearly. I am a US citizenship and very sure that I am an American. Do you agree? I am not sure what you meant by invade other people's homes to get a share of what the legal residents have worked to pay for. I have been paying taxes like other Americans since I was legal to work in my state. I believed that your statement insults at least me and maybe to other boat people who gave up everything to find freedom in a new country so they can call it a home. Hope that helps and educate you a little so you think before ranting something that you never experience in your entire life span.
I am reading through the comments for this video and I cannot understand for the life of me why people are trying to find the differences between the Vietnamese boat people and the current refugee crisis. Seeing this kind of discrimination, especially from former refugees is very disheartening. Regardless of the political, historical, social situations, these are still human beings searching for the lives that we all take for granted. Let's give them the respect that we would want.
People will not understand or any knowledge of any war cause by both side of either the communist or the Western world or the physical pain or the feeling some member of your family got kill in the journey to the freedom world..so now you know what it feel unless that happend to you or your family get kill or live the life with the communist regime. So please be nice to each other to build a better world to live. Thank you to read my comments. CA.USA
Many people have lived under communist regimes and have had happy, fruitful lives. I met a Serbian girl who observed that when the communists were in power, everyone had had what they needed. @@hungnguyen-tr4cn
Burglars are humans too, and they want better lives. That is why they go into other people's houses to take a share of the stuff that the residents have worked hard to pay for.
@@vietnam891 Having a good reason to leave your country, does not entitle you to move into someone else's home and use all the stuff that took generations of taxpaying to provide. Do you have a lock on the door of your house? Do you let anyone who is dissatisfied with his own house to move in with you and use the shelter and household goods that you have worked to pay for?
My father was a sergeant in the ARVN. After the Fall of Saigon, he was sent to the re-education camp. While my mom family were sent to the new economic zone in Binh Duong. In 1979, my father got released and left VN on the boat to Palau Tengah, Malaysia. My mom left VN to Hong Kong in 1980. Life were harsh in VN back in the days with the communist. I found your story is very inspirational and will make me appreciate what I have rn.
Thanks for sharing. Your story will be a of million stories that I will use to educate my kids " Vietnamese American ". One more time , thank you Ma'am.
All the blessings and love for these Vietnamese immigrants. Their stories resonate with us, Americans, whose ancestors had to flee their homelands leaving their homes and lands behind to escape from religious and political persecution. I welcome these Vietnamese boat people just like I would for my great grandparents from France and Scotland when they had to flee their homelands for religious and political freedom.
I don't know what's the right answer... In 1975 the House and Senate overwhelmingly voted to support welcoming refugees from Cambodia and S. VN. But decades later, the same Americans who served in the War seemed to usually support Trump, whose stance on immigration seems completely the opposite of Gerald Ford's. What happened?
Thankyou for sharing. Your story moved me. I was a refugee too. I hope I can make a difference in the world too as you have done and continue to do. Thankyou so much.
Hello Survivor, a Hero you are. My apology to call you that but truly after listening to you story immediately it resonates to my own life. A refugee in the myself. You are a strong woman to narrate such a painful story of your life. Your resilience is out of this world. Keep on doing a good job and hopefully one day I will meet you in person and give you a big hug. God bless you and your family.
Do you have a lock on the door of your house? Do you allow anyone who wants to, move into your house and share the living space and all the stuff that you have worked to pay for? Our nations are our homes and our borders are the national equivalent of the doors on our houses. We know why the boat people left Vietnam. They wanted to get to a richer country to take a share of the wealth that another people had worked hard to pay for.
First of all, I am truly sorry for what you and what many lives went through. Thank you so much for sharing and you did an amazing job on stage with such a multitude of people. Regardless, I strongly feel that at the end, you it came out from a bad storm to see that beautiful rainbow. You're resilient character shines brightly and I'm very proud of you! ^^ I am very touched by your story of that treacherous journey and in a way, although I can't imagine what you went through ma'am, I can feel the pain of not ever setting foot back home ever. I got to the states in 2001 and yes, 15 years and still counting of not seeing home and hurts each day beyond the word homesick can describe. In addition, being a single mother of 3 God-given children living in a place I still can't wholeheartedly 100% call home isn't easy. Your story made me got lumps in my throat the moment you use the term "boat people" and that's when it really hits home. Why? Currently, my boyfriend is one of the refugees from last year's huge wave of refugees that fled home from the Middle East because of war and persecution. Thank God the Lord allow him to made it to Finland from September and this Saturday, June 2, 2016, he will get the answer whether he gets Finnish Citizenship or not. If he gets rejected and gets sent back, he will be killed.*heart-wrenching but it's 100% the truth* He not only had shared stories of ,excruciating, tormented walks in the jungle due to lack of food,water, proper sleep and hygiene in Turkey but also up to being one of the " boat people " crossing the Mediterranean Sea to get to Greece. He also sent me raw VDO clip of him and his group running away from the explosions thrown by the Serbian officials as they tried to enter Hungary. Children, both women and men ran aimlessly for their lives uncertain where to run to in this huge field of nowhere surrounded by mountains. He also shared moments he had thought of just jumping into the Mediterranean Sea because he had seen so many lives were lost right in front with his own eyes. Throughout his painful journey, each calls from him hearing his voice, knowing that he is still alive and him updating his Exodus, makes me feel "like or as if" I had taken this journey with him too. I've been praying about my boyfriend's upcoming day and just like that, I was lead to your clip. Please keep him and many other struggling refugees out there who have a pure heart of wanting a safer and better lives in your prayers. There’s absolutely nothing wrong to fight for that dream in the best possible way there is to, even if that means to be called a "boat people" or refugees. Thank you for listening to my story and thank you for what you're doing today in helping the refugees.
How do you know that your boyfriend isn't using you to get into a richer country than the one he left? If he deserted his own country and ran away, what makes you think that he won't desert Finland if Finland comes under attack?
Pohseebility Ong Yes thank you so much for all the refugees for being brave and helping those that needed the help. Wow this must be the hardest thing to ever go through! All of you are in my prayers and thoughts!! 😇
@@2601carina Hi Carina. I ran across this video and I can't believe that I am looking at a picture of my boyfriend's deceased brother's bones in that bucket. Henry says hello by the way. He has a new grandson so I will send a picture as soon as I get one. The world seems off kilter a bit and I'm wondering what your neck of the woods is going through seeing as though information is not available like it used to be.
Just same my family case my mom had 10 kids die right after as soon she on call "economic, new zone " the last of her kids 2 years old so sad when she die she was 4 months pregnant 😥💔 thx for sharing THANKSSSSSSSS to CANADA
You make me cry, Carina. I am so proud of You. Thank You. Thank You for sharing this video clip. Keep up good work. Receive my respects eventhough you are at the age of my daughter. [NLG73]
Norris, a big 'thanks' to You, my dad, and the men and women of your generations. Your sacrifice and courage have paved the road that your daughter and I are standing on today.
If the pilot an Indonesian or Malaysian, Lima mean five. Five is the number of fingers. So it is complete. Across Malaysia, Indonesia, The Philippines, Hawaii, Polynesian including Maori in New Zealand, Lima is the word for five.
William H If you pay careful attention, you will notice that what Vietnam & the US both do and say are opposite of one another. US is “capitalist” but has a social security network, while in Vietnam, business regulations are nowhere to be found if you can afford to pay the bribes. So in action, Vietnam is quite deregulated and the US is currently sending out welfare to the entire nation. Go figure! Haha
I respect the contents and the story that she shared; however, I PERSONALLY do not really like some parts of it. Yes, of course, at some periods in life we have to do something that we are kind of forced to do, but please don't say that you did not have another options. You did. Please just say that this option could make your life better (regardless of other people's lives and the "root" of you); that's why you are willing to leave your country. Just admit that we are human and we are selfish because sometimes we need to do so. Anyway, it's the past (maybe I have never experienced something like that, so I cannot feel it the way you feel) and just let it past. Vietnam has now become different and many Vietnamese people now have a very good life, not all but many (as in any other developing countries). I come from Vietnam and I am proud of that, knowing that there are still a lot of things that are not good in Vietnam. If Vietnam was the US, than there would be no story to tell and nothing to discuss. It's the diversity of life and it's YOUR choice to steer your ship of life. Best wishes!
+Victoria Bui: How can you be so sure that they didn't FEEL like they had another option? When they FELT hopeless in their own country because the country's government has betrayed them by harassing and imprisoning its own people, I can imagine why one would feel like there's no other way. I grew up in Vietnam for 14 years too, and I know that history textbooks and the media never told the true stories of these refugees - why and how they left. The propaganda about Ho Chi Minh and the party have no room for the refugees' stories to be told. Of course Vietnam is very developing now, but these stories will never be taught and the Fall of Saigon has always been known as the Independence Day. Can more lies be told and history rewritten?
What a condescending comment to be making! Having no choice is a figure of speech as if people like her stayed behind they would've likely suffered greatly under the persecution of the communist party. Vietnam being different now is of no relevance to the pain and suffering people like her went through.
Khanh Ngo Thank you for your feedback. Ok, so please, open my eyes and let me know "your intellectual level" by telling me: What should we do now?? If your brain was that "high level", I should have expected you to be able to understand that "let it past" doesn't mean forget it all, but learn to live with it peacefully, accepting the past. And if you are not selfish (as a normal human), where are you and what are you doing now, dear "polite" friend?
Teh Vanarch I DID NOT say that she should have stayed, dear! I said that they had more than ONE choice! If I were her, I might have done the same. But just be honest, and say that there were choices and they chose the best for them at that time. However, after having left, I myself don't think that it's interesting to keep the same view/opinion after 40 years. P.s: Please write in proper English or Vietnamese, or at least try to add some punctuations so that I can understand you correctly! Thanks!
It’s a choice for many.. We had refugees from Syria and Afghanistan flooding my country with the thousands…but yet so many millions also stayed in their motherland… that means the ones that went away, CHOSE to be refugees. Nobody FORCED them to go, they decided they want to flee.. Also why the heck are refugees always being sent to the west? Why don’t they just go to the closest country near them? Why go all the way across the world? Is almost like they do it on purpose…cus they know where the wealth and peace is.. but once they come they start demanding things and complaining! When instead they should be just grateful they’re not in a war zone anymore.. and that the country accepted them at all!
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You said that, but today all of us know that.: Being a refugee is your choice! Have a look Vietnam goverment now, so peaceful and wealthy.
@@transphotography I'm Vietnamese American and even I know that FB and YT are accessed easily without VPN. Maybe sometimes they'll send sharks to eat the underwater internet cables around elections but that just slows down the internet a little. Have you visited within the last few years? I can't wait until their borders reopen, I miss Vietnam a lot.
John Monrow You're right but you're also wrong. I suggest that you first talk to refugees fleeing from communist countries how communists control all aspects of daily life and then put such comment. Do you know the first thing communists do is to control your stomach by food ration? You always don't have enough food to eat let alone to feed your children and then you can't go or move to another city without approval of local police. Even if you get approval, buying a bus ticket is a challenge because 90% of bus tickets reserved for those who work for communist government. When you reach your destination, the first you do is you have to report to local police station that which house you stay and show them how many days you stay and explain to local police your reasons. When you and your friends get together to talk you will be questions by police. Your neighbors are always working for police also. Why? For the food ration, if they do that communists would give one more kilogram of sugar or one more pound of beef to their ration. Can you fight communists under such situation?
John Monrow “Our donations”.......? I believe refugees pay sales & income taxes too. They did fight, and they lost, and then they fled persecution (which was in a way “fighting” for their freedom). The country, they lost. It was the freedom they were then fighting for.... Gotta think a little deeper my friend. Remember the US National anthem states, “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” The boat people were brave enough to take the risks Carina described, for their freedom. Very similar to the Puritans, way back when. The Puritans were the original boat people and refugees to this land.
John Monrow Also, I would hardly consider anyone who experienced what Carina has experienced, a “coward”. Have you ever held and buried a dead baby on a deserted island? Helped a woman give birth with no medical supplies? Endure abandonment and death all around you? And then revisit & relive it all over again, to help others find closure? She sounds like a warrior to me.
An Nguyen I were born after 1975, and I were raised in Vietnam until I was 18. I hate communist but I always have a questions in my mind : I still don’t understand why people risked their lives to escape but did not risk their lives to fight? It’s either coward or not very smart I think.
So sad to hear your specch. But it is not about your story. It because your family behaviour. Your Father served nation' enemy then your mother did not want to let her children to save country when other enemy attacked and killed our people. Do you know thousand of vietnamese mother in everywhere of Vietnam sent thier children to fight and grant independence. Shame of you.
@@chriswatson1698 Get your facts correct. Britain declared war on Germany. Supposedly because the Germans invaded Poland my father also ran away from Poland (let's call it a tactical retreat) to fight for ''freedom'' with the British only to be sold down the river by the British and the rest of the allies when they lost the war in Europe ''Fight to the last'' give me a break.
My post does not say that Britain didn't declare war on Germany. Only that Britain was bombed. My post doesn't even say which country did the bombing. Learn to read. @@2011littlejohn1
Oh please. Spare me your pedantic nit picking as you've ignored my point which is - war is a childish futile occupation and refugees are created by the lunatics who have them and the Vietnamese boat people had every right to try to escape it as did most of the population of Europe who ran away in WWII - just look at some of the lines of people leaving the war area in France rather than ''fight to the last.'' as per Cap America's post whose name is appropriately based on a kid's comic book hero. I suspect this patriotic vain glorious guy is some young person from the U.S. who've never really experienced war at home since 1865.
@@laughter95 Unfortunately yes. As a Vietnamese person who lives in the north the history they teach kids are one-sided. They try to paint the communists as angels. Many children believe this info because you can't rll see both sides of the story unless you learn English. The education system in Vietnam does teach children English and require about 5.5 IELTS to get into a good high school, but the history primary schools teaches children when they were young have brainwashed them. They don't even bother to research more about the war. I've researched a lot about it and I find that 90% of the articles about the war don't tell the full story.
This women is not a genuine refugee. Her family were just expected to defend their own country. The suffering they experienced was due to their abandonment of their own country. If the USA came under attack, would she just run away, as she ran away from her own country?
Chris Watson The woman was fleeing persecution as a child, along with her younger siblings, after her family had lost in fighting for their country. That information was very clearly apparent. She endured all the horror that she described in her quest to obtain freedom and liberty. I hope this helps your comprehension of the topic discussed.
How do you know that she would have been harmed if the family had stayed put? Many did stay put. The hardship occurred because her family put her in a boat.
What persecution? So they lost their house? So what? There are Australians who have never had their own homes. So she couldn't work for the government. So what? Plenty of Australians can't work for our government. 7 kids? What sort of irresponsible people are they who have so many children during a war? All Americans look alike? What a lie! Americans don't all have the same colour and texture of hair and they don't all have brown eyes. The hardship this woman suffered was NOT due to persecution. It was caused by her mother's attempt to get to a place with a higher living standard.
Chris Watson And about all Americans looking alike, when you’re not familiar with something, your mind tends to group and categorize. My late-grandmother was not familiar with different makes and models of cars, she would often get into the wrong car because it was the same color and size as mine. To Asians who have not been exposed to many Westerners, many Western people appear tall, pale, have tall noses and similar build. If you look around, you probably share similar features with those around you. It takes foreigners a little bit of time to start making more defined distinctions. That’s just neurobiology.
My father is the most important person in my life and we share everything together. However, the experiences he would never share with me come from the time he was a Vietnamese boat person, trapped in a Malaysian refugee camp for nearly two years. Thank you so much Carina for giving me some insight into what it must have been like for him. It makes me all the more grateful that he survived through it and I am so incredibly proud to call him my father.
It is common for people who experience trauma not to share with their kids.
All my life I was wondering what my father really experienced during world war II. Je never told me.
When Ukraine war started, my mom had flash backs, bringing her trauma of World War Il bombings back. Only then she told me a little.
Thank you for sharing these powerful stories, Carina. I am a former refugee mtself. My tears just keep flowing out of my eyes as I'm listening to your speech. I posted this video Om my Facebook page. May God always bless you.
Your story is inspiring and powerful. I am a boat people as well. I am very proud of you. Thank you for sharing
one of the ted talks that made me tear up
I love the Vietnamese here in the USA. My father in law was an officer for the police in Saigon. He went to reeducation camp for 6 years. They only let him out because he almost died. My wife and her mom had to go visit her dad to bring medicines and such. His reeducation Camp was by a mountain kinda by Cambodia.
makes me tear up every time i hear stories of boat people. it is rough and tough. many people perished
It isn't the people in their home countries who were doing them harm. If they had stayed loyal to their own countries they wouldn't have been attacked by pirates. Burglars want better lives. That is why they invade other people's homes to get a share of what the legal residents have worked to pay for.
@@chriswatson1698 Let's put you in this situation and please let me know if you want a better life or not. The communist comes to your house and take away your parents, you, or your siblings at night without any reason and who knows where they are either dead or alive. You can not work because you are on the blacklist working for the previous government. If you work underground and get caught, they will take everything that you have and put you in jail for years. You can't go to school and your kids can not school either. In short, you can not survives under the communist country unless you are communist. Their intention is slowly killing all their enemies with times or whomever does not agree with them, period. So you only have two choices. One is stay in the country and slowly dying in pain or two is run away and hope to survive.
All boat people are legally entering the USA with a long and painful process. They came to the USA and worked very hard to earn for their living. Do you why? They have a chance to succeed in live and opportunities everywhere in the US. All you need is to set your goal and work hard for it. I was a boat people about 35 years ago and I am very successful person in the USA today. I have a great family now and earn a six figures yearly. I am a US citizenship and very sure that I am an American. Do you agree? I am not sure what you meant by invade other people's homes to get a share of what the legal residents have worked to pay for. I have been paying taxes like other Americans since I was legal to work in my state. I believed that your statement insults at least me and maybe to other boat people who gave up everything to find freedom in a new country so they can call it a home. Hope that helps and educate you a little so you think before ranting something that you never experience in your entire life span.
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I am reading through the comments for this video and I cannot understand for the life of me why people are trying to find the differences between the Vietnamese boat people and the current refugee crisis. Seeing this kind of discrimination, especially from former refugees is very disheartening. Regardless of the political, historical, social situations, these are still human beings searching for the lives that we all take for granted. Let's give them the respect that we would want.
Yep, no difference except religions, got it now?
People will not understand or any knowledge of any war cause by both side of either the communist or the Western world or the physical pain or the feeling some member of your family got kill in the journey to the freedom world..so now you know what it feel unless that happend to you or your family get kill or live the life with the communist regime. So please be nice to each other to build a better world to live. Thank you to read my comments. CA.USA
Many people have lived under communist regimes and have had happy, fruitful lives. I met a Serbian girl who observed that when the communists were in power, everyone had had what they needed.
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Burglars are humans too, and they want better lives. That is why they go into other people's houses to take a share of the stuff that the residents have worked hard to pay for.
@@vietnam891 Having a good reason to leave your country, does not entitle you to move into someone else's home and use all the stuff that took generations of taxpaying to provide. Do you have a lock on the door of your house? Do you let anyone who is dissatisfied with his own house to move in with you and use the shelter and household goods that you have worked to pay for?
My father was a sergeant in the ARVN. After the Fall of Saigon, he was sent to the re-education camp. While my mom family were sent to the new economic zone in Binh Duong. In 1979, my father got released and left VN on the boat to Palau Tengah, Malaysia. My mom left VN to Hong Kong in 1980. Life were harsh in VN back in the days with the communist. I found your story is very inspirational and will make me appreciate what I have rn.
Thanks for sharing. Your story will be a of million stories that I will use to educate my kids " Vietnamese American ". One more time , thank you Ma'am.
All the blessings and love for these Vietnamese immigrants. Their stories resonate with us, Americans, whose ancestors had to flee their homelands leaving their homes and lands behind to escape from religious and political persecution. I welcome these Vietnamese boat people just like I would for my great grandparents from France and Scotland when they had to flee their homelands for religious and political freedom.
I don't know what's the right answer... In 1975 the House and Senate overwhelmingly voted to support welcoming refugees from Cambodia and S. VN. But decades later, the same Americans who served in the War seemed to usually support Trump, whose stance on immigration seems completely the opposite of Gerald Ford's. What happened?
Thankyou for sharing. Your story moved me. I was a refugee too. I hope I can make a difference in the world too as you have done and continue to do. Thankyou so much.
Thank you for speaking out I was a boat person too in a way you and I wasn't actual in the same boat but " We're in the same boat ". Love your speech.
Hello Survivor, a Hero you are. My apology to call you that but truly after listening to you story immediately it resonates to my own life. A refugee in the myself. You are a strong woman to narrate such a painful story of your life. Your resilience is out of this world. Keep on doing a good job and hopefully one day I will meet you in person and give you a big hug. God bless you and your family.
Be Inquisitive - Imagine... What excellent advice. I am humbled by these people and ashamed of my government. Thank you for coming to Australia.
Hi Mike, I thank You and Australia.
I have faith that things will change and for the better. I just hope that it will be soon enough.
Do you have a lock on the door of your house? Do you allow anyone who wants to, move into your house and share the living space and all the stuff that you have worked to pay for?
Our nations are our homes and our borders are the national equivalent of the doors on our houses.
We know why the boat people left Vietnam. They wanted to get to a richer country to take a share of the wealth that another people had worked hard to pay for.
Best TED Talk Ever
My family was one of them the man who save us and tell them who never forget him
Thank you for speaking to the world
Thank you for sharing the story. I just learned about boat people from my friend, whose whole family had escaped to the US.
Carina, you are my hero!
I lost it..... I watched to the end and it just hit me all at once and I lost it.........
First of all, I am truly sorry for what you and what many lives went through. Thank you so much for sharing and you did an amazing job on stage with such a multitude of people. Regardless, I strongly feel that at the end, you it came out from a bad storm to see that beautiful rainbow. You're resilient character shines brightly and I'm very proud of you! ^^ I am very touched by your story of that treacherous journey and in a way, although I can't imagine what you went through ma'am, I can feel the pain of not ever setting foot back home ever. I got to the states in 2001 and yes, 15 years and still counting of not seeing home and hurts each day beyond the word homesick can describe. In addition, being a single mother of 3 God-given children living in a place I still can't wholeheartedly 100% call home isn't easy. Your story made me got lumps in my throat the moment you use the term "boat people" and that's when it really hits home. Why? Currently, my boyfriend is one of the refugees from last year's huge wave of refugees that fled home from the Middle East because of war and persecution. Thank God the Lord allow him to made it to Finland from September and this Saturday, June 2, 2016, he will get the answer whether he gets Finnish Citizenship or not. If he gets rejected and gets sent back, he will be killed.*heart-wrenching but it's 100% the truth* He not only had shared stories of ,excruciating, tormented walks in the jungle due to lack of food,water, proper sleep and hygiene in Turkey but also up to being one of the " boat people " crossing the Mediterranean Sea to get to Greece. He also sent me raw VDO clip of him and his group running away from the explosions thrown by the Serbian officials as they tried to enter Hungary. Children, both women and men ran aimlessly for their lives uncertain where to run to in this huge field of nowhere surrounded by mountains. He also shared moments he had thought of just jumping into the Mediterranean Sea because he had seen so many lives were lost right in front with his own eyes. Throughout his painful journey, each calls from him hearing his voice, knowing that he is still alive and him updating his Exodus, makes me feel "like or as if" I had taken this journey with him too. I've been praying about my boyfriend's upcoming day and just like that, I was lead to your clip. Please keep him and many other struggling refugees out there who have a pure heart of wanting a safer and better lives in your prayers. There’s absolutely nothing wrong to fight for that dream in the best possible way there is to, even if that means to be called a "boat people" or refugees. Thank you for listening to my story and thank you for what you're doing today in helping the refugees.
How do you know that your boyfriend isn't using you to get into a richer country than the one he left? If he deserted his own country and ran away, what makes you think that he won't desert Finland if Finland comes under attack?
I never forget. I also was one of the many. RIP who perished on the way. AMEN.
THANK USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, THE FREE WORLD. THANK YOU.
Carina you are an inspiration! I love you.
Thank you, Pohsee. I hope we'll meet again. C
Pohseebility Ong Yes thank you so much for all the refugees for being brave and helping those that needed the help. Wow this must be the hardest thing to ever go through! All of you are in my prayers and thoughts!! 😇
@@2601carina Hi Carina. I ran across this video and I can't believe that I am looking at a picture of my boyfriend's deceased brother's bones in that bucket. Henry says hello by the way. He has a new grandson so I will send a picture as soon as I get one. The world seems off kilter a bit and I'm wondering what your neck of the woods is going through seeing as though information is not available like it used to be.
I wouldn’t exist today if my father hadn’t come to the US by boat. My father was only 12 years old at the time.
Just same my family case my mom had 10 kids die right after as soon she on call "economic, new zone " the last of her kids 2 years old so sad when she die she was 4 months pregnant 😥💔 thx for sharing THANKSSSSSSSS to CANADA
You make me cry, Carina. I am so proud of You. Thank You. Thank You for sharing this video clip. Keep up good work. Receive my respects eventhough you are at the age of my daughter.
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Norris, a big 'thanks' to You, my dad, and the men and women of your generations. Your sacrifice and courage have paved the road that your daughter and I are standing on today.
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I heard the story too, but it's the version of what happened back at "home", the 30 long years after 75'.
Tina Nguyen hi, I would love to talk to you and hear your story! I can speak enough Vietnamese to hold a intermediate conversation.
Did I miss where she explained what the name Lyma means? Why the pilot asked her baby to be named that?
If the pilot an Indonesian or Malaysian, Lima mean five. Five is the number of fingers. So it is complete. Across Malaysia, Indonesia, The Philippines, Hawaii, Polynesian including Maori in New Zealand, Lima is the word for five.
it's a tragedy story in Vietnam history.
Thank you so much for sharing all this information …………… The Ways So Us We’re Was As Same ……… Thank You Again ……………
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Let’s people in this country(USA) who wants to turn USA to be socialism listen to this story...
William H If you pay careful attention, you will notice that what Vietnam & the US both do and say are opposite of one another. US is “capitalist” but has a social security network, while in Vietnam, business regulations are nowhere to be found if you can afford to pay the bribes. So in action, Vietnam is quite deregulated and the US is currently sending out welfare to the entire nation. Go figure! Haha
Viva Socialist Republic of Vietnam!
I respect the contents and the story that she shared; however, I PERSONALLY do not really like some parts of it. Yes, of course, at some periods in life we have to do something that we are kind of forced to do, but please don't say that you did not have another options. You did. Please just say that this option could make your life better (regardless of other people's lives and the "root" of you); that's why you are willing to leave your country. Just admit that we are human and we are selfish because sometimes we need to do so. Anyway, it's the past (maybe I have never experienced something like that, so I cannot feel it the way you feel) and just let it past. Vietnam has now become different and many Vietnamese people now have a very good life, not all but many (as in any other developing countries). I come from Vietnam and I am proud of that, knowing that there are still a lot of things that are not good in Vietnam. If Vietnam was the US, than there would be no story to tell and nothing to discuss. It's the diversity of life and it's YOUR choice to steer your ship of life. Best wishes!
+Victoria Bui: How can you be so sure that they didn't FEEL like they had another option? When they FELT hopeless in their own country because the country's government has betrayed them by harassing and imprisoning its own people, I can imagine why one would feel like there's no other way. I grew up in Vietnam for 14 years too, and I know that history textbooks and the media never told the true stories of these refugees - why and how they left. The propaganda about Ho Chi Minh and the party have no room for the refugees' stories to be told. Of course Vietnam is very developing now, but these stories will never be taught and the Fall of Saigon has always been known as the Independence Day. Can more lies be told and history rewritten?
What a condescending comment to be making! Having no choice is a figure of speech as if people like her stayed behind they would've likely suffered greatly under the persecution of the communist party. Vietnam being different now is of no relevance to the pain and suffering people like her went through.
Khanh Ngo Thank you for your feedback. Ok, so please, open my eyes and let me know "your intellectual level" by telling me: What should we do now?? If your brain was that "high level", I should have expected you to be able to understand that "let it past" doesn't mean forget it all, but learn to live with it peacefully, accepting the past. And if you are not selfish (as a normal human), where are you and what are you doing now, dear "polite" friend?
Teh Vanarch I DID NOT say that she should have stayed, dear! I said that they had more than ONE choice! If I were her, I might have done the same. But just be honest, and say that there were choices and they chose the best for them at that time. However, after having left, I myself don't think that it's interesting to keep the same view/opinion after 40 years.
P.s: Please write in proper English or Vietnamese, or at least try to add some punctuations so that I can understand you correctly! Thanks!
+Victoria Bui She was writing in proper English, man!
It’s a choice for many.. We had refugees from Syria and Afghanistan flooding my country with the thousands…but yet so many millions also stayed in their motherland… that means the ones that went away, CHOSE to be refugees. Nobody FORCED them to go, they decided they want to flee..
Also why the heck are refugees always being sent to the west? Why don’t they just go to the closest country near them? Why go all the way across the world? Is almost like they do it on purpose…cus they know where the wealth and peace is.. but once they come they start demanding things and complaining! When instead they should be just grateful they’re not in a war zone anymore.. and that the country accepted them at all!
You said that, but today all of us know that.: Being a refugee is your choice! Have a look Vietnam goverment now, so peaceful and wealthy.
Nùng Trí Cao Do you still have to use a VPN to connect to Facebook? Or RUclips?
transphotography we never need to. What are you trying to tell?
@@hieuhd93 Mother Mushroom.
@@transphotography ???
@@transphotography I'm Vietnamese American and even I know that FB and YT are accessed easily without VPN. Maybe sometimes they'll send sharks to eat the underwater internet cables around elections but that just slows down the internet a little. Have you visited within the last few years? I can't wait until their borders reopen, I miss Vietnam a lot.
Any man or woman not willing to fight for their country and freedom is worthy of neither their life, freedom or our donations. Coward.
John Monrow You're right but you're also wrong. I suggest that you first talk to refugees fleeing from communist countries how communists control all aspects of daily life and then put such comment. Do you know the first thing communists do is to control your stomach by food ration? You always don't have enough food to eat let alone to feed your children and then you can't go or move to another city without approval of local police. Even if you get approval, buying a bus ticket is a challenge because 90% of bus tickets reserved for those who work for communist government. When you reach your destination, the first you do is you have to report to local police station that which house you stay and show them how many days you stay and explain to local police your reasons. When you and your friends get together to talk you will be questions by police. Your neighbors are always working for police also. Why? For the food ration, if they do that communists would give one more kilogram of sugar or one more pound of beef to their ration. Can you fight communists under such situation?
John Monrow “Our donations”.......? I believe refugees pay sales & income taxes too. They did fight, and they lost, and then they fled persecution (which was in a way “fighting” for their freedom). The country, they lost. It was the freedom they were then fighting for.... Gotta think a little deeper my friend. Remember the US National anthem states, “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” The boat people were brave enough to take the risks Carina described, for their freedom. Very similar to the Puritans, way back when. The Puritans were the original boat people and refugees to this land.
John Monrow Also, I would hardly consider anyone who experienced what Carina has experienced, a “coward”. Have you ever held and buried a dead baby on a deserted island? Helped a woman give birth with no medical supplies? Endure abandonment and death all around you? And then revisit & relive it all over again, to help others find closure? She sounds like a warrior to me.
An Nguyen I were born after 1975, and I were raised in Vietnam until I was 18. I hate communist but I always have a questions in my mind : I still don’t understand why people risked their lives to escape but did not risk their lives to fight? It’s either coward or not very smart I think.
What have you done to deserve any freedom? What donations have you spent to help anyone? Have you helped anyone in need?
So sad to hear your specch. But it is not about your story. It because your family behaviour.
Your Father served nation' enemy then your mother did not want to let her children to save country when other enemy attacked and killed our people.
Do you know thousand of vietnamese mother in everywhere of Vietnam sent thier children to fight and grant independence.
Shame of you.
You can escape as a refugee or hold your ground and fight to the last. You always have a choice.
Your remark is as childish as your name.
Really? Britain was bombed. Where would the British be if they just turned tail and ran away, as the Vietnamese have done? @@2011littlejohn1
@@chriswatson1698 Get your facts correct. Britain declared war on Germany. Supposedly because the Germans invaded Poland my father also ran away from Poland (let's call it a tactical retreat) to fight for ''freedom'' with the British only to be sold down the river by the British and the rest of the allies when they lost the war in Europe ''Fight to the last'' give me a break.
My post does not say that Britain didn't declare war on Germany. Only that Britain was bombed. My post doesn't even say which country did the bombing. Learn to read. @@2011littlejohn1
Oh please. Spare me your pedantic nit picking as you've ignored my point which is - war is a childish futile occupation and refugees are created by the lunatics who have them and the Vietnamese boat people had every right to try to escape it as did most of the population of Europe who ran away in WWII - just look at some of the lines of people leaving the war area in France rather than ''fight to the last.'' as per Cap America's post whose name is appropriately based on a kid's comic book hero. I suspect this patriotic vain glorious guy is some young person from the U.S. who've never really experienced war at home since 1865.
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This is the product of the Vietnamese education system?
@@laughter95 this young man will be brainwashed by communist system
@@laughter95 Unfortunately yes. As a Vietnamese person who lives in the north the history they teach kids are one-sided. They try to paint the communists as angels. Many children believe this info because you can't rll see both sides of the story unless you learn English. The education system in Vietnam does teach children English and require about 5.5 IELTS to get into a good high school, but the history primary schools teaches children when they were young have brainwashed them. They don't even bother to research more about the war. I've researched a lot about it and I find that 90% of the articles about the war don't tell the full story.
This women is not a genuine refugee. Her family were just expected to defend their own country. The suffering they experienced was due to their abandonment of their own country. If the USA came under attack, would she just run away, as she ran away from her own country?
I think you don't know what you are talking about. But one thing for sure, Chris Watson isn't the name your Viet+ parents gave you.
Chris Watson The woman was fleeing persecution as a child, along with her younger siblings, after her family had lost in fighting for their country. That information was very clearly apparent. She endured all the horror that she described in her quest to obtain freedom and liberty. I hope this helps your comprehension of the topic discussed.
How do you know that she would have been harmed if the family had stayed put? Many did stay put. The hardship occurred because her family put her in a boat.
What persecution? So they lost their house? So what? There are Australians who have never had their own homes.
So she couldn't work for the government. So what? Plenty of Australians can't work for our government.
7 kids? What sort of irresponsible people are they who have so many children during a war?
All Americans look alike? What a lie! Americans don't all have the same colour and texture of hair and they don't all have brown eyes.
The hardship this woman suffered was NOT due to persecution. It was caused by her mother's attempt to get to a place with a higher living standard.
Chris Watson And about all Americans looking alike, when you’re not familiar with something, your mind tends to group and categorize. My late-grandmother was not familiar with different makes and models of cars, she would often get into the wrong car because it was the same color and size as mine. To Asians who have not been exposed to many Westerners, many Western people appear tall, pale, have tall noses and similar build. If you look around, you probably share similar features with those around you. It takes foreigners a little bit of time to start making more defined distinctions. That’s just neurobiology.