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Daughter From Danang: Documentary Analysis

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Cultural shock relates to a sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes with feelings of anxiety that may affect people exposed to another culture or environment without adequate preparation. During this lecture we looked at a documentary video by the name “Daughter from Danang”. The clip was about a mother name Mai Thi Kim and her daughter Heidi that were reunited. Heidi was placed up for adoption based on rumours because her mother fears for her safety being a mixed-race child. She was sent from Vietnam to the USA at age six, where she was adopted by a single woman in the USA. Heidi was eventually reunited with her mother Mai Thi Kim after several years and she was having problems adjusting to the Vietnamese culture. Even though she was
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