Essay about documentary "Daughter from Danang."

"Here, my daughter is, thinking all I want is money" (I want to connect this to the end by showing how Heidi experienced CS and use the language barrier as an example). "Daughter from Danang" is a documentary about Mai Thi Heip. She was taken from her mother at age 7 during the Vietnam War's "operation Baby Lift". She was adopted by an American family in Tennessee and became 101% Americanized, and given the name Heidi Bub. 22 …showed first 75 words of 879 total…

…showed last 75 words of 879 total…some of the stages that Heidi goes through. What was evident throughout the movie was that Heidi obviously had no preparation for culture shock, and went into Vietnam completely naíve. I believe culture shock is like getting sick. You can prepare for it, you show symptoms of it, and there is a cure to it. But for most people if no effort is put into the curing only worse comes from it.