ASA 115
Week 4
For this weeks reading, I will be blogging on the Dust to
Gold-Vietnamese Amerasian Experience. Amerasians is a term used for people who
have Vietnamese mothers and American fathers. After the Vietnam War, Amerasians
were portrayed as worthless half-breeds that did not belong. They were treated
very poorly and endured excommunication and backlash from Vietnam’s homogeneous
society. In their society and culture, they believed that the fathers were the
man of the house. Amerasians who did not have a father figure after the war
were seen even less and never were accepted. This brings up the term, marginal
man. The marginal man is a theory developed by sociologists
to explain how individuals between two cultural experiences may struggle to
establish their own identities. This term was meant to have a negative
connotation towards the Amerasians. The marginal man never fully feels accepted
in either race or feels that they have to belong to the group that is seen as
the lesser race. Another term that was mentioned in the reading was classism.
This is when someone is prejudice against or in favor of a social class. With the
Amerasian Act, Amerasians were allowed to migrate to the United States. My
question for this week is if America did feel guilty, why did it take them so
long to pass the Amerasian Act?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5c1SeFR3Ss
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