About – A Quest for Origins, Truth, and Identity

From Adoption to Return: A Life Between Two Worlds

Adopted from Vietnam as a child by a French family, I grew up in Bordeaux surrounded by love — but also silences no one could name.

As a child, I had simple yet powerful dreams:
to become a professional footballer, then a firefighter.
But life brought me back to a harsher reality.
Invisible struggles, unanswered questions, and an ongoing inner quest.

Disappear to Come Back Stronger

In 2020, I left France. Not to travel, but to deliberately lose myself.

I spent a year in Bangkok. Then I returned to where it all began: Vietnam.
Not as a tourist, but as a man in inner exile.
Searching for meaning. For answers. And perhaps, for myself.

Finding one part. Still searching for the other.

I was fortunate to find my birth mother again. To see my brother once more.
Real faces. Voices lost in time.

But my sister is still missing.
I don’t know where she is, but I keep searching for her.
And maybe, one day, my words will find her.

Living Without a Degree. Learning Out of Necessity.

I have no official diploma.
Everything I know, I learned on the ground — by walking, falling, and starting over.

I taught myself English while living abroad.
I trained independently in writing, web, digital skills, and culture.
Today, I live in Vietnam, thanks to what I’ve built with my own hands, doubts, and determination.

Why RacinesVietnam.com?

Because I needed a living space, away from social networks,
where I could write what I never dared to say.

RacinesVietnam.com is a blog, but above all, a refuge.
For adoptees. The uprooted. Lost children who have grown into rebuilding adults.
A space for sharing around Vietnamese adoption, bicultural identity, spirituality, transmission, and living memory.

What You’ll Find Here

Testimonies on Vietnamese adoption, kinship, and identity
Articles on Vietnamese culture, its rituals, names, and wisdom
Immersive travel journals, far from tourist clichés

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If You See Yourself in This Journey

If you’re adopted.
If you’re still searching for what connects you to a story, a country, a name, or simply to yourself.
If you live abroad, without a map or compass.
If you had to build yourself without diplomas or landmarks, but with willpower.

Then you’re in the right place.
And maybe this site is a little bit yours, too.

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