in youtube is andrew lam's my journey home...

in which he talks about his return to vietnam. he is the son of a former general of the south vietnamese army and the author of perfumed dreams: reflections on the vietnamese diaspora. this video is just the first part.

...there was someone who looked at my face and he said, you know, yours is not a vietnamese face and i said why not, and he said, because it's a face that did not know suffering, i said, i see. he said, if i had escaped and gone to the United States, i would have transformed myself like you did...