Upon playing the game, Bill has little to no interest in what his father is showing him. This is a reflection of how Bill feels toward the Vietnamese culture as well. As the game progresses, Thieu feels some form of sorrow for the sake of his culture being irrelevant to his own son but also to the realization that he is in fact in another country that will not provide him with even the game materials he needs to show his son their culture. The culture itself is not present due to the circumstances of the environment and Thieu realizing this was the point at which he gave up. “I thought he had read my mind and shared my feeling, but I looked at him and he was pointing at the toes of his white sneakers. “My Reeboks are ruined” (Butler 64). Bill has adapted to the American life and Thieu was still trying to hold on to the last bit of culture he has left which is only