Short Documentary. A young adult Vietnamese immigrant, currently serving time in prison for armed robbery, recounts his evolution from a 13 year old immigrant to a life of crime.
He relates his immigration fro Read all A young adult Vietnamese immigrant, currently serving time in prison for armed robbery, recounts his evolution from a 13 year old immigrant to a life of crime. He relates his immigration from a Vietnamese refugee camp to California, his entry into American schools, his subsequent He relates his immigration from a Vietnamese refugee camp to California, his entry into American schools, his subsequent involvement with Asia American gangs followed by criminal activity and prison.
Directors Ahrin Mishan Nick Rothenberg. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Add photo. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. User reviews Be the first to review.
Details Edit. This was an appropriate term since their lives were valued by the Vietnamese society as little more than the dust of the street. These children, left behind by circumstances beyond their control, were essentially unwanted orphans. They knew not who their father was and, in some cases, not even their mothers who may have abandoned them out of shame in infancy. The mothers, too, must be pitied for being left in untenable social and financial circumstances in which the effort to raise a child born to American fathers would have presented an insurmountable objective.
Many who were sought out by their fathers and brought to America have become stellar citizens and patriots. Coming from the hell of Vietnam as children of mixed race was very much like dying in the dust and waking up in the fertile pastures of the American landscape. In my view, these pitiful children of the dust of Life is precisely like the great number of people of the world who go about their lives not knowing their Father in God or any such motherly love as the Church is commissioned to provide.
Instead of condemning such numbers of people, the Christian must view them in sympathy since they have not been granted the grace to know God as Father — at least not yet!
God acts at His own time and discretion and there are huge numbers who walk in darkness today who will joyfully bathe in the effulgent Light of Christ tomorrow. As we have written many times over, there are but two families on earth — the children of the Light, and the children of darkness. There is no twilight in between. You are either chosen, called, and granted salvation by God through the grace of His Son our Lord Jesus Christ, or you wander in the murk and shadow of dark places.
God, in His discretion, has called many out of that darkness by means of His foreordained and predestined volition. All are as the Dust of Life ere the Holy Ghost enters into the deep chambers of the heart and calls their name to Life as Christ did Lazarus. The dust of the earth is the permanent abode of the ungodly. You will remember that two men stand forth as stark reminders of the destination of both the chosen of God as well as the reprobate sinner.
Please note that there is no delay between the departure of the two men and their present condition. Death comes as the blink of an eye. The rich man immediately awakens and finds himself in Hell. But Lazarus awakens in the Paradise of God.
The speed of the transfer is quicker than the speed of light. Once one is committed to one, or the other, there is no way to travel from one to the other. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
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