In professor Bui’s lecture on Vietnamese women and their representation as Vietnam in prewar/ pre-communist era, she describes that the Vietnam women were used to represent Vietnam as this Garden of Eden, a place of beauty, and exoticism that forever changed after the communist takeover and break out of war. The women in Vietnam were objectified by western eyes, and thus creating an image of Vietnam women that were prostitutes, and escorts. Though many women of this time were in fact escorts, the women were objectified by western troops, many of which were already married. Professors Bui’s research does more than just speak about Vietnamese women as sexual objects and sexualized bodies, but it also speaks for an even broader issue; that is Asian women as a whole. The Vietnam War took place over 50 years, and movie makers like those that Bui talks about in her lecture, tried to show Vietnam women in a certain light and from a certain view point. This representation of Vietnamese women, one could argue, became the representation of Asian women as whole. Even today, in a much more liberal society, Asian women are objectified in television and film, which has carried its way through time. Movies like Memoirs of a Geisha, that does not take in place in Vietnam, have created similar images to that of the Vietnamese women, and have created stereotypes that have carried into today’s society. Particularly in Fraternity college life, I have noticed a popular trend of college fraternity brothers that objectify Asian women as sexual objects, women of apparent exotic nature, and apparently overly sexual. It seems to be in the college discourse that one must sleep with an Asian at least once in their lifetime. This ideology is quite problematic for Asian women and the notion that all Asian women are used as sexual bodies and seen as exotic is the pure definition of orientalism. Professor Bui’s research does not only speak of the past or simply Vietnamese women specifically, but it even resonates in today’s society, where Asian women as whole are objectified and seen as exotic, sexualized bodies. Orientalism is still very present, though many would argue against that.