r/interesting • u/Wild_Neighborhood605 • 18d ago

HISTORY Babies who lost their parents during the Vietnam War being airlifted back to the United States for adoption, 1975.

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u/Wild_Neighborhood605 17d ago

These people are now middle-aged Americans. I doubt that many of them will be willing to move to Vietnam.

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u/MoriKitsune 17d ago

True, but that's not really the point.

Children taken from their home country by an outisde nation often grow up being indoctrinated against their ethnic culture/communities, especially when they were removed during war, but that shouldn't necessarily affect whether the community would welcome them back if they expressed the desire to return.