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Exclusive Interview with Kim Noonan 1 Citation Kim Noonan is the writer, director and main character of the autobiographical short film Running Dragon. He took some time out of his busy schedule to talk to me about race, culture, adoption and his new film project.Kev: What stories were you told about your birth in Vietnam and adoption to the US?Kim: When I was younger, I didn?t want to know and I didn?t really care. I was more interested in fitting in. I wasn?t told anything about my mother at all. It?s not the safest thing to tell your son, technorati.com
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?Surviving Twice? Book Review in Nhà Magazine 1 Citation Just read a review of Yarborough?s book Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War in Nhà Magazine here. Of course, Yarborough?s book has factored into several of my own blog posts, most notably: Here. Here. Here. and Here., technorati.com
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What Part of ?No? Do You Not Understand? 1 Citation What Part of ?No? Do You Not Understand? October 23, 2008 The headline in the LA Times read, ?Children of Vietnam War servicemen seek U.S. citizenship?. A defiant sadness came upon me when I thought about the limbo that these men and women of Vietnamese and American heritage must still be experiencing. In many cases, they were abandoned by their anonymous fathers and rejected by their mothers, extended relatives and neighbors, as well as both the American and Vietnamese governments. It is, technorati.com
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1 Citation My hair is going to be with me for the rest of my life, and I barely have gotten used to it. My hair and I have a love/hate relationship. I still remember when I shaved it all off for the very first time when I was 20. I felt so impetuous; I didn?t even think about how it would look after I took scissors to my wavy locks and then slowly swiped a twin-blade razor over and over the remaining tufts, row after row, slowly revealing my pale scalp.I still have the photo of the final result in one of m, technorati.com
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International Adoption & The Babylift Legacy 1 Citation The title of this post comes from the title of a project that I and my co-blogger, Sumeia, had worked on diligently for several months back in the summer and fall of 2008. Tipped off that the Korean Adoptees of Hawai?i (KAHI) crew were putting on a large conference by and for Asian adult adoptees in Honolulu, we decided to contribute our unique voice to the festivities. The good people at KAHI enthusiastically encouraged us to submit our best work.By August I had gathered and read through as muc, technorati.com
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1 Citation After WWII, the Russians and the Americans attempted to divide up the world both ideologically and militarily. The Domino Theory was soon coined to justify using the Korean and Indochinese peninsulas as proving grounds for injecting American influence around the world. The U.S. government poured millions of dollars and thousands of combat troops and support personnel into the wars in Korea and Vietnam to preempt any more countries from falling to the Communists.A healthy dose of paternalism and, technorati.com
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1 Citation Operation Babylift (hereafter initialized ?OBL?) is popularly known as a ?salvage operation?. In April 1975, under the manufactured threat of a mass slaughter of infants and children by advancing North Vietnamese forces, Western relief agency and orphanage personnel in South Vietnam, and finally the American government, pressed into action a daring ?rescue? plan. Vietnamese children under the jurisdiction of these relief agencies and orphanages, and any other child that was handed to them or who, technorati.com
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1 Citation In Asia, wherever the U.S. military went, prostitution and intermarriage came along for the ride. Official U.S. military policy discouraged its personnel from consorting and fraternizing with the native female population. But, the fact that thousands of mixed race children were born to Korean and Vietnamese women tells us that regardless of the rules, human nature took over.When it came to prostitution, top U.S. brass looked the other way, while local pimps and madames carved out certain section, technorati.com
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