#AMERASIAN

[mashpoll]

Peace on Us (s7 e2): When the Army increases the number of points needed for a discharge, Hawkeye gets angry and interrupts official peace talks. Meanwhile, Margaret decides to divorce Donald after he permanently transfers himself stateside.

Yessir, That's Our Baby (s8 e15): An Amerasian baby captures the hearts of the MASH staff, but they encounter resistance when trying to find the baby a home.

#peace on us #yessir that's our baby #season 7 #season 8 #round 3

[capitalradio]

i got that if you can play on a fiddle how's about a british jig and reel speaking kings english in quotation as railhead towns feel the steel mills rust water froze in the generation clear as winter ice this is your paradise there ain't no need for ya there ain't no need for ya go straight to hell boy gooo straight to hell boy wanna join in a chorus of the amerasian blues when it's christmas out in ho chi minh city kiddie say papaoapa san take me home see me got photophotopgoro graph of you and mamamamma san of your wand maam mama san let me tell you about your blood bamboo kid it ain't coca cola it's rice go straight to hell boy go straight to hell boy go straight to hell boy go straight to hell boy oh papa san please take me home oh papa san everybody they wanna go home so mamasan says you wanna play mind crazed banjo on the druggie drag ragtime usa in parkland international ha junkiedom usa where procaine proves the purest rock man groove and rat poison the volatile molotov says hahahahaahaha straight to hell can you cough it up loud and strong the immigrants they wanna sing all night long it could be anywhere most likely could be any frontier any hemisphere no man's land there ain't no asylum here king solomon he never lived round here go straight to hell boy go straight to hell boy go straight to hell boy go straight to hell boy rizz

#izzie.text

[nat-reviews-books]

Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Dan is a retired helicopter pilot and captain from the US army, going back to Vietnam for the first time in 2016. Trang is a young woman who becomes a "bar girl" during the war. Phong is a man looking for his parents, a Vietnamese woman and a black American soldier.

This was a difficult read in places, but the story was beautiful. The author wrote each character with grace, allowing them to have faults and flaws, but not allowing those to make anyone unforgivable. I loved how the stories between the three characters and two timelines wove together.

Although there were difficult things, this book highlighted the things that make me want to go back to Vietnam. The friendly people, the beautiful landscapes, and the amazing food.

I thought the author did a great job covering a difficult topic, and her work in reuniting American servicemen with their Amerasian children is highlighted throughout the book, in her kindness toward each of the characters.

I felt a bit unresolved in this book, mainly because I wanted to stay with these characters longer. There was one loose end we were left with, but it was a realistic loose end that I am ok with, even though I really wanted it tied up too (trying not to give spoilers here).

Recommended for: people who want to learn more about Vietnam, someone looking for a book that will break your heart and mend it back together, and anyone looking for a book about the effects of the Vietnam War by someone from Vietnam.

Content Warnings: alcoholism, prostitution, rape, war

#books #reviews #book review #dust child #nguyễn phan quế mai

[hakodate-division]

Relationship: Family - Ted Bridges

Martha Bridges † - Ted's mother. She was a gentle, kind woman who loved her family very much. She spent the majority of her life working as a guidance counselor for teenagers and young adults, helping to solve some of the mental and psychological problems that they often were affiliated with. When she retired, she still tried to help young people by writing self-help books. She sadly passed away whilst writing her third one.

Ted Bridges, Sr. † - Ted's father. Like his son, he served in the army and wanted to serve for the vast majority of his life. However, his marriage, along with a wound received in battle, sidelined him for the rest of his life. To compensate, he wrote a book on his theories on war and the ethical dilemmas and circumstances surrounding it. His work was awarded the Distinguished Book Award, which established him as an effective writer. He planned to write another book, but his wife's passing cost him his motivation. He passed a year after her.

Janet Shimizu † - An Amerasian who was born to a Japanese woman and a U.S. military serviceman. She and Ted bumped into each other by accident, as the Canadian man was trying to find his way around Okinawa. Seeing his confusion, she helped him find his way to where he was going. This small meeting would soon turn into something larger as they kept seeing each other around the city. Eventually, Ted asked her to marry him, which she accepted, bearing him a son. She was approached by Chuohku for a high-paying job at one of her labs. Though her husband was skeptical, she accepted. This would prove to be her last mistake as she was unfortunately killed during a workplace accident. Ted keeps a gold heart-shaped locket containing a picture of her and him in his coat pocket as a reminder of her.

Aiden Bridges (15 Years Old) - Ted's son, and the only family he has left. He is a timid and gentle lad who has never harmed a living being in his whole life. In fact, much like his mother, he respects Mother Nature and the creatures that live in it. Besides her looks, he appears to have also inherited his mother's "gift" to speak with animals, which is why Ted always instructs him not to use his gift out in the open, because he doesn't know who's watching or listening. He loves his father dearly but often wishes that he wouldn't be so overprotective.

#hypnosis mic #hypnosis microphone #hypmic #hypnosis mic oc #hypmic oc #ted bridges #family #relationships #headcanons

[made--bye--a--woman]

Hold up. I didn’t hear not 1 mention of the leftovers. They’re crediting the Ameerah backdoor to the pound when it was the leftovers. What’s with the Brittany and Taylor erasure? I swear if Julie tells Amerasian she was backdoored by an all male alliance, I will scream

#bb24

[minhtuannguyen96]

Amerasian Center Saigon (Ho Chi Mihn City) 1991

#youtube

[lifeofvietnamesepeopleinstlouis]

Historical Way of How Vietnamese People Came To the US

January 01, 2016 · 2.07am

After Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30, 1975, about 125,000 Vietnamese fled their country. Operation New Life and Operation Baby Lift helped around 111,919 Vietnamese refugees and orphans to leave while over 90,000 of those resettled in the United States.

Have you heard about “boat people” before? That is the name of the estimated 1 to 2 million Vietnamese people who left Vietnam illegally and dangerously by boat in 1978 to the mid-1980s. The dangers came from e. g. overcrowded vessels and environmental perils. Many fell victim to pirates or were lost at sea.

Because of the high death tolls, the “United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees” (UNHCR) helped refugees to emigrate from their original country for the first and only time through the Orderly Depart (ODP). The U.S. government allowed the immigration of Vietnamese to the United States due to the hardships endured by the boat people and the Geneva conference on Indochinese Refugees on June 14, 1980. To qualify for immigration to the U.S., Vietnamese people had to fall under one of the following categories:

-          Family unification

-          Former U.S. employee

-          Former re-education camp detainee

There was a subprogram, the Humanitarian Operation (HO), designated for the last-mentioned category. ODP ended in 1994 and helped over 500,000 immigrants. A renewal of the ODP agreement and McCain Amendment was signed by the U.S. and Vietnam in 2005. The McCain Amendment allowed the children from former re-education camp prisoners to immigrate with their parents. The renewals ended in 2009.

The Amerasian Homecoming Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1987 and allowed Vietnamese children with American fathers to immigrate to the U.S. and approximately 23,000 to 25,000 Amerasians, as well as 60,000 to 70,000 of their relatives, immigrated based on that.

[iwantjobs]

9/29/2022:. I am waiting to see if white mass shooting and terrorist mass violence sickness to infect Asian-Asian people in America. It has infected 1 Amerasian already in LA.

[dongphuchaitrieu]

#ÁoThunCổTrụ #ĐồngPhụcMàuXanhDương #ĐồngPhụcQuậnBìnhThạnh

[mashpoll]

Yessir, That's Our Baby (s8 e15): An Amerasian baby captures the hearts of the MASH staff, but they encounter resistance when trying to find the baby a home.

The Life You Save (s9 e20): Charles has a near death experience and becomes obsessed with what the afterlife might be like.

#yessir that's our baby #the life you save #season 8 #season 9 #round 2

[angryluca]

amerasians night out 🥰 #latepost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #amazing #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #picoftheday #instadaily #followme #instalike #smile #bestoftheday #like4like #style #food #happy #summer #igers #girl #photography #nature #cute #fashion #instagram #travel #swag #instacool #look #fun (at MK BBQ Grill) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdEvngXBNbL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#latepost #amazing #love #instagood #photooftheday #beautiful #picoftheday #instadaily #followme #instalike #smile #bestoftheday #like4like #style #food #happy #summer #igers #girl #photography #nature #cute #fashion #instagram #travel #swag #instacool #look #fun

[moonroomie]

APAHM Benefit Film Screening, May 24-31. All contributions go to assist local API and Desi American artists impacted by Covid-19 (update: contributions will now be redirected to Black Visions Collective, MN Freedom Fund, National Bailout, and Reclaim the Block as we observe our complicity in anti-blackness and recognize our own privilege) will be matched 69%* by moonroom. IG: @moonroomie​ • Venmo: moonroom 

CONFLUENCE is a meditation in documentary form filmed during last season’s PHASE series, channeling reflections on identity and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. • Directed by ETA • Featuring interviews with Ceramiks, Jangus Kangus, Kelleia, Laciste, Oh My Muu, Reinabe, Shunkan, and Zhao • Music by Sonoda, Tomemitsu and Zhao •

• Co-Presenters: Athame Records, Girl Underground Music, OnThree Management, Zoom Lens • Community Partners: API Equality-LA, Chewing Foil, Enclave LA, Pehrspace, QNA, Sleezehog Presents, Sunday Jump, Week in Pop •

Listen to our APAHM PHASE playlist featuring API and Desi American artists and bands who’ve participated in our annual showcases since 2017 here.

#APAHM #APAHM2020 #API #AAPI #APIDA #AMERASIAN #AAPIHM #undergroundmusic #lamusicscene #documentary

[mixedmestizame-blog]

For nearly a century, American servicemen were stationed at Subic Bay in the Philippines, and many of them fathered children with the women who lived nearby. When the base closed in 1991, hundreds of these children were left behind, stripped of their fathers and their sense of identity.

#mestiza #amerasian #philippines #happa #american #military brat #war babies #brown babies #the mixed space #mixed #multiracial #biracial

[minhtuannguyen96]

Amerasians

#youtube

[wearejapanese]

During the immediate postwar, the Japanese government and newly formed civic leaders, were in heated debates on what to do with the mixed-Japanese children left by US, British, Australian, and other allied nations’ military men, with the majority being by the US Americans.

Some of the Japanese establishment wanted to ship all mixed-babies off to an island and be guarded and kept there, then shipped to the US when they were older.  Another major Japanese government faction argued to keep them in Japan but have their own separate schools and living quarters.

Another faction of the Japanese government wanted to integrate them into Japanese society and teach them to ‘become fully Japanese,’ and forgetting their parentage.

Yet another faction wanted to educate the Japanese public on prejudice and racism and to work on a more diversity-conscious Japan while integrating the mixed-children into Japanese society, honoring their differences and circumstances.

In one document I read, these factions became heated and violent during a government meeting.  Indeed this was a huge issue in Japanese society at the time. Well, they were never integrated.  They were left to themselves.  Prejudice and racism continued in most cases, and the children were beaten up, scorned, humiliated, excluded.  Many could not take their classmates and their teachers anymore, and dropped out of school.  Others couldn’t afford school anyway and were abandoned.  So they lived in the streets.  They, of course in order to survive, turned to stealing money, food, tobacco, anything they could get their hands on.  For this, they were scorned, often beaten and humiliated and sometimes killed.  No one cared, so many of the mainstream usually think, so they could play out their domination and violence against these mixed-kids.  Not only that.  Their mothers, if the mothers chose to keep them, were just as scorned and humiliated.  It took no exaggerated amount of courage to decide to raise their mixed-babies alone.

Neither the US military or the US government wanted anything to do with it.

Even though the issue was the sexual and emotional, related to the satisfaction of the US soldiers in Japan, it was and still is clear that the responsibility of pregnancy was not something the US military was wanting to be responsible for. After all “boys will be boys” and the military was ‘special’ and they ‘protected’ America so the ‘boys’ need their needs met and that ‘s all.

In fact, not only were the mothers and their mixed-babies ignored in Japan, the military worked hard to keep the fathers who DID WANT TO RETURN or STAY in Japan with their Japanese girlfriends, apart from their Japanese women.  So these soldiers were shipped away and kept away.  It was not always successful, of course. A soldier was told that he could not return under their commanders’ orders.  Many went AWOL and returned.  Others married their Japanese girlfriends through Shinto priests, even though Shinto and other indigenous religions in Japan were banned by the Occupation.

In the 1960s and 70s, I began to meet quite a few Black Japanese, working in manual labor or on the streets, hustling.  If they were asked if they were ‘ainoko’ or ‘konketsuji,’ they told me that most often, they refused that identity and said they were Korean or Okinawan or from the South of Japan (where many Japanese of other mixed heritages of Japan were known to live, or were simply a bit darker in skin-tone).   It was better to be one of these scorned people in Japan, that I had just mentioned, than to be a mixed-American–especially a mixed-Black.  Certainly mixed-Black were not considered Japanese, even though it was the only cultural identity these children knew.  It is not this way today in Japan, since the ‘enemy’ is not a part of a cultural memory with the younger generation.  But the race-prejudice is reinforced by Japan’s media images of Blacks transferred to them from America (criminals, homeless, musicians, athletes, less intelligent, over-emotional, over-sexed, fat-lipped, big-nostrils, physical, scary).

For those of us who had come with our mothers and fathers to the US, it is another kind of assimilation.  For others, who were adopted out of Japan and into African-American adoptive homes, there are others stories.  Most did ‘fine’ becoming American.  There was no need to know Japanese or to be Japanese, or even remember it.  Indeed some may have been taught to remember their Japanese-ness, but most were often raised with an African-American community identity.  This ‘fine’ is an identity without memory, full of ghosts, filled with a coming longing.

I would venture to say that most, if not all, Black-Japanese experienced racism in the US in those days.  For me, in New Mexico, I got ‘n****’ and ‘Jap’ and ‘Gook’ or ‘mutt,’ as well as ‘Slant-eye’ ‘Fu-Manchu’ and other comments and names about my being mixed-up, confused, impure.  Later, primarily beginning in the  70s, this turned to ‘exotic’ and ‘you have beautiful skin.’  Not as painful but just as lonely (since I was not there but as a figure of their own racialized notions of people).

In the US, isolation is individuated and then celebrated. The disconnected individual (except for acquiring a nuclear family or something similar to it), is celebrated and exalted in America.  The individual is left for themselves and called ‘successful’ if they ‘make it’ as a middle-class (or wealthy), powerful, entertaining, ‘good’ person with no problems with the house and white picket fences (the American dream).  There are many who search now, for their identity, because there are ghosts there.

In Japan, many generations I know, do not even know they are Black Japanese. Their parents refused to call themselves that.  They survived and raised their children never to mention it.  Today, most Japanese think they are all living in Okinawa.  They are still non-Japanese. Others celebrate their heritage privately and don’t bring it up much.  In both the US and Japan, it is ‘unimportant.’ Being invisible is a ‘plus.’  In the US, we may call ourselves ‘Black Japanese’ or ‘Blasian’ or ‘Mixed Race,’  but it is a conversation-piece without much history because much of the time, most I have known, tell me that their parents rarely talked about their earlier days (the immediate post-war).

Generations of Black-Japanese born in the 1970s and later, have very different experiences from those of the 40s and 50s, for instance.  This has much to do with the silence, the forgetting, the trauma.  Now there are many Black-Japanese who ‘blend in’ to other cultures or who are anomalies, who do not know about their parents and grandparents’ pasts, and do better not to bring it up. Some of us who are privileged enough to be in touch with some of the memories, may be able to put this history into the world, as I attempt.  Others struggle and search for it, perhaps never to find.  First, we must encounter our own need to care, much less search.  This is the perfect modern person, without history. Assimilated.

Assimilation in the US is individual isolation.  Assimilation in Japan is group isolation.  The effects are similar.  The difference may be in that the US was the victorious nation and most of the Black-Japanese I know, who came to the US in this period, were taken care of through a Christian missionary  or non-profit organization who adopted them out.

In both Japan and the US, many of the adoptive families as well as the orphanages, may have treated them with abuse, hidden from the records.  They were not ‘safe.’  There were famous places such as the Elizabeth Saunders Home for Mixed Children, and two and three Christian organizations in Japan, that did an excellent job, in general, although always in a controversy.

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