Kaining Huang, Week 4 reading blog, ASA 115
In this week, I have read "From Dust to Gold: The Vietnamese Amerasian Experience"; "Happy Hearts All Day: The "plight" of Mixed-Race American-Okinawans, 1965-present"; "Desire and Dislocation: Asian International Transracial Adoptee Cultural Production and Mixed Race Identity Discourse"; and playing card 9 and 8. The one most impressive for me is "From Dust to Gold: The Vietnamese Amerasian Experience", and the term: Amerasian refers to mixed race people who born from women and soldiers. These mixed race people face discrimination from the society of the United States and Vietnam's because both of the community reject them being one of the member of community. The discrimination Amerasian suffers brings pain to them and cause social problems and discussion concerning about how to deal with people from refugees. Their experiences remind me of my knowledge of refugee of Vietnam war. Although children from refugees receive help from the government, they can hardly embrace the community of either Vietnam and United States. The hardship they face represent the tragedy wars brings us. Actually, World War Two also leads to similar social problems in Asian countries and European countries. The war between China and Japan, brought by World War Two, gives birth to some mixed race people of China and Japan. Because of the hatred brought by the war, these mixed race people are hardly embracing both communities for decades. My question is: how do we persuade other people not to look down on the mixed race people?
And here is a youtube video telling the difficulties Amerasian face in Vietnam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5c1SeFR3Ss