In this week’s topic, “ sleeping with the enemy and war babies,” there was a lot of material that I resonated with. There was the fact that the half breed or half blood/ mixed people are treated so unfairly. From the article, “From Dust to Gold: The Vietnamese Amerasian Experience” by Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, we see the increase of American mixed children. From the American voice to the look, there is so much discrimination. I know my parents in talking to them about people of different races is hard, having talked to them about my mixed Vietnamese friends is a totally different vibe, like how there is this issue of impurities and differences in ideologies. My family has seen mixes of Chinese and Vietnamese and Vietnamese and Black. The black and Vietnamese mixed families is very much treated differently, so much that it is sad to the rest of us to see someone like my grandparents who we respect so much to have to hear about it. In today’s society where it’s more normal to see mixes in America is very different from the time after the Vietmnamese war ending in 1975, where it was probably more of a rape situation.
My question would be if it was acknowledged that they were all still people, without considering the familial origins?
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