Diane Lee ~ ASA 115 ~ Week 4 Reading Blog

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The films and readings for week four communicate to the audience about the relations that occurred beyond a war and the lives of mixed race children with a father in the military and a mother from Asia. Therefore, this week's readings and films connect to the theme: Sleeping with the Enemy and War Babies because the wars brought enemies closer together which brought the war babies into the world. To think that war was happening together with sex is obscure. It did not cross my mind that foreign soldiers in a foreign land could be in contact with the foreign women there and that the children of these various interactions would be naturally unwanted. In one of the readings, “Happy Hearts All Day: The “Plight” of Mixed-Race American-Okinawans, 1945-present” written by Akemi Johnson and Lily Anne Yumi Welty, we are introduced to the history of AmerAsian School of Okinawa and the different personal accounts of American-Okinawans. The fact that the AmerAsian children with parents from different countries have their own school in Okinawa displays how their existence is seen as irregular. In most of the personal accounts of American-Okinawans, they do not find favor in both their identities. Even with the AmerAsian school supporting them with accepting being American and Japanese, there are still lingering pressures of not belonging. Comparing week 3 and week 4 readings, is there a difference in being mixed race in America versus being mixed race in Asia?