Bụi đời

The term bụi đời ("dust of life") originally referred to the starving people of the countryside taking refuge in towns, in the 1930s.

[3] The term trẻ bụi đời "young vagrants," now refers to street children or juvenile gang members.

[4][5][6] The majority of mixed-race people after the Vietnam War were Amerasians or children of Vietnamese mothers and military or civilian men from the United States.

In the United States, bui doi, or the term "dust of life", again referred to the criminal class, where the youths included newly transplanted Vietnamese and Amerasians.

The 1977 made-for-TV "Green Eyes" is a fictional movie about an American veteran who makes a trip back to Southeast Asia to search for his son from a liaison with a Vietnamese woman.

Its prologue opens with a definition: "Bui Doi: 'less than dust' Term used to describe Vietnamese children with American fathers.