What's Being Half Vietnamese like in Vietnam? 🇻🇳🇵🇷

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@skyetran Ай бұрын

For anyone who’s grown up between cultures or as a mixed child, what’s the best and most challenging part? How did it impact your identity?

@rmot2911 Ай бұрын

Well, I was born in Nigeria like my brother because our parents were working there as Medical Doctors though mom, dad are Indians (bro, sis, sis-in-law, niece and nephew are American Citizens where niece and nephew were born in America while I am Australian Citizen). Bro and I grew up in Nigeria, Ireland, Oman, India, etc while sis was born in India but hardly lived there as she lived mostly in Oman and USA. Out of the 3 of us, I was bullied the most and bullying is quite common amongst kids worldwide though sometimes those bullies change as adults while other times, may not. The only challenging part was losing friends and then acquiring friends when land in other nations but that's part and parcel of life because as kids, we tend to go for more friends as we don't look at much quality but look more at quantity of friends while as adults, we tend to pick and choose with regards to quality. For me, the multicultural background was never a problem though I had to slowly learn who I was including family I come from because I come from a multicultural, mutiracial, multireligious and global family especially thanks to my mom's side of the family though my dad's side of the family too has it where I do have 1st cousins, other cousins, uncles, aunts, granduncles, etc who are Citizens of USA, Canada, Australia, India, Oman, UAE, Singapore, New Zealand, Malaysia, S Africa, Jordan, UK, Norway, Denmark, etc. Most of us are Christians including Catholics Protestants Orthodox and Oriental Christians though there are a couple of family members who are Hindus, Jains, Sikhs, Muslims, Atheists, Agnostics, etc. I am a 3rd culture kid like my brother and sister where we are all global citizens too. Anyway, Reality is Nobody in this World is Pure Blood as we are all Mixed blood with mixed culture unless we are from the uncontactable tribes like the Sentinelese tribes because even Indigenous People have Mixed Blood Mostly. India via the Indian subcontinent has the 2nd Most Mixed Ancestry in the World by % and numbers proved by DNA after the Africans while India via the Indian subcontinent also has the 2nd Most Indigenous People in the World after the Chinese by numbers and %. SE Asia including Vietnam has a Lot of Mixed Ancestry with Both Indian Subcontinent people and Chinese due to SE Asia being part of the Sinosphere and Indosphere before the Indian Subcontinent Kingdoms ruled parts of Sri Lanka, Central Asia, SE Asia including Vietnam via Cambodia Indonesia etc which is also why Buddhism-Hinduism spread from Indian Subcontinent to China, Sri Lanka before spreading to SE Asia including India (Central and Southern Part of Vietnam has been linked to India via Cambodia, etc). It's only in the last 500 years or so, Westerners landed in SE Asia, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada as before that, even via Trade it was Mostly between Asia and Africa while West was trading a lot more with the Arabs, Africans, Indian Subcontinent.

@trangang671 Ай бұрын

Behati’s definitely the coolest person I’ve ever met, know that he had a tough childhood but the first time really hear his story.

@skyetran Ай бұрын

Oh amazing, how do you know him?

@mykeshachubbs8201 Ай бұрын

I absolutely love him

@dvo8861 Ай бұрын

Lady, you look 100% Viet

@zzpdanny Ай бұрын

Am I tripping or Behati speaks English with a hint of Vietnamese influence, e.g. using singular form for plural nouns, pronouncing the word "Vietnamese" as "Vietnamee", etc. No disrespect though just curious

@ViktorOddy Ай бұрын

He is not from the USA his accent tells it all

@YaRememberTHISQuestionmark 6 күн бұрын

You're kidding me, right? His accent screams East Coast urban.

@ViktorOddy 6 күн бұрын

@@YaRememberTHISQuestionmarkdog, I’m native speaker I can tell when someone is not from USA

@phamanhtruong4077 Ай бұрын

Very funny .... Advise take everything you can ... Mother or father .... You never know when you need it .... Open mind and Freedom have a very high price .... Thanks to both of you ... EDUCATION is the only solution not matter where you live and where you are ...

@skyetran Ай бұрын

yeah, his personality is big!

@cudanmang_theog Ай бұрын

Vietnamese share haplogroup Q-M142 with Native Americans, N1b1a1 with Baltic people, C2b3c3d2e3 with Mongolian.

@skyetran Ай бұрын

Ohhh?

@retrotero76 Ай бұрын

Oh, I have met him in Saigon. Fun guy.

@skyetran Ай бұрын

Oh really, where?

@retrotero76 Ай бұрын

@ A bar I visited regularly.

@mykeshachubbs8201 Ай бұрын

I am thinking of moving to Vietnam to become an English teacher. I would love to hear more about African Americans in the teaching field in Vietnam.

@powercomm Ай бұрын

Check how much you would be making and see if it is ok with you.

@zeka90s Ай бұрын

It’s doable , I’m from South Africa and I’m currently teaching in Vietnam so if you’re worried about the “African” part do not stress. I’m often mistaken for African American and when I let them know I’m just straight African they don’t care either way you’re a foreigner lmao

@antvn222 Ай бұрын

This man is not from US or Puerto Rican.

@skyetran Ай бұрын

How do you know?

@antvn222 Ай бұрын

@ accent is weird man, I’m Puerto Rican and from US. He 1000% Viet

@masterpooshi6031 Ай бұрын

Fabulous

@rickdavis2710 Ай бұрын

He or she ?

@skyetran Ай бұрын

@rickdavis2710 Ай бұрын

@@skyetran I,just had a hard time figuring him out. I have a half Vietnamese daughter in the States and she looks American and most people never thought she was Vietnamese. She has light skin and brown hair. They realized she was also half Vietnamese when they met her Mom. We used to laugh about it. Her teacher in School was Vietnamese and never knew my Daughter was Vietnamese,until she met my wife and I at a School function. We all laughed because my daughter speaks Vietnamese too. She has never had a problem that I know of with her identity.

@beidlern Ай бұрын

Why? You lost a sub. No thank you.

@skyetran Ай бұрын

such a diva response 💅🏼

@beidlern Ай бұрын

@@skyetran Click bait. Should read growing up gay in VN.

@skyetran Ай бұрын

hope you're okay? it's okay if you're Vietnamese & gay...you can be both

@retrotero76 Ай бұрын

This made me subscribe, so that makes it even.

@ddanielpho Ай бұрын

Behati is a girl's name. You neither look nor sound like Behati.. You should like Bebe. XIN Chao Bebe. You are so Hood. I love it

@thejourneyplanner9037 Ай бұрын

There is nothing VT about him, 100% Bronx

@skyetran Ай бұрын

100% baddie

@josenguyen88 Ай бұрын

You can take him out of New York but you can’t take the New York out of him 🗽❤

@mahtoeshurt Ай бұрын

He sounds like he’s from Atlanta

@hellodddd33134 Ай бұрын

@@mahtoeshurt he sounds like he waves the rainbow flag around... has the look as well. no wonder viets hate him

@vietnamese1016 Ай бұрын

Nah, he's more like Puerto Rican from the hood than Atlanta nor NY. As far as VN, I heard more negative vibes from the North than positive. I've never been to the North and kind of neutral, not really dying to go up there for a visit.

@skyetran Ай бұрын

true lol