Ti Liu
By Wade Ung, family friend of Ti
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Living as a mixed-race child in a reunified Vietnam
Living as a mixed-race child in a reunified Vietnam
Ti Liu was born to an American serviceman and a Vietnamese woman during the Vietnam war in 1973. Her father died during the war, leaving Ti and her mother stranded in Vietnam. When the Vietnam war ended in 1975 and the Communists began to take control in the South, Ti was at a significant risk of prejudice, harassment by locals and separation from her mother by communist officials due to her heritage and it's association with Americans.
"We had to burn all of our documentation ... we were trying to protect me and my ethnicity so we didn't get sent to work camps, if they found out your father fought (for the south) in the war they sent you to work camp." - Ti Liu
"A lot of the women who had mixed-race children, especially blonde or black ones didn't want them ... orphanages were filled with Amerasian children across the country, they didn't want to associate with Americans out of fear of being sent to re-education camps." - Ti Liu
"They implanted Communists in every community to spy on the neighbors and rat them out, everyone knew who the Communist was though, and after a couple years we didn't need to hide as much after the anti-American rhetoric died down a little." - Ti Liu
"Even their own families treated them (Amerasian children) poorly, my cousin next door never got to leave his home, he was locked inside all day. A lot of them were treated poorly, like house servants or lesser children."
- Ti Liu
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