Bụi đời
VIETNAMESE TERM FOR URBAN VAGRANTS
Con lai; Bui-Doi; Nguoi Lai; Vietnam War children; Bui Doi; Bui doi; Bụi đời (term)
The Vietnamese term bụi đời ("life of dust" or "dusty life") refers to vagrants in the city or, trẻ bụi đời to street children or juvenile gangs. From 1989, following a song in the musical Miss Saigon, "Bui-Doi" came to popularly in Western lingo, referring to Amerasian children left behind in Vietnam after the Vietnam War.