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| by Ret Z. |
| Covering Poverty Widely in a Net of Many Voices |
| November 11, 2009 | No Profit; No Proceeds |
| Volume 13 Number 9 | All-Volunteer |
| "Give a family a fish, and they'll eat a meal; give them a Net, and they'll have fish for Life." |
| Boys Trapped in Forced Labor Could Have Been Killed |
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KHULNA, BANGLADESH 67 boys, engaged in forced labor in various fishermen's colonies in 13 coastal islands near the Sundarbans, lost their lives due to natural disasters, attack by ferocious animals, and snakebite from 1998 to 2003. Revealing the information, a survey report of Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said the 67 victims are among
thousands of boys who were brought to the coastal area for forced labor since 1973.
Coastguards on Oct 31 rescued 46 victims of forced labor from fishermen's colonies at Dublarchar, Alokol, and Meheralirchar under Sharankhola upazila of Bagerhat district. The victims were handed over to their own guardians on Monday. Brought to Dublarchar by shutki (dried fish) traders a month ago for forced labor, these boys hail from Chittagong, Sylhet, Feni, Brahmanbaria, and Bagerhat districts, said coastguard operations commander Lokman Hakim. Brokers of shukti traders picked up the boys from their areas, assuring them of good jobs. Once taken to the colonies, the boys were made to do hard labor from early morning till midnight every day, said the coastguard men who rescued the boys. The minor boys, provided with insufficient food, were subjected to torture if they failed to do hard labor as per order. "I was brought to Dublarchar a month ago along with others. They said I would be given a good job," said young Ripon, of Chittagong, to police. "But we were engaged in hard work which was beyond our capacity." Sabuj of Sylhet has a similar tale to tell. He and Ripon alleged that a number of boys, kept in confinement in different islands of the Sundarbans, are made to work from sunrise till midnight. Coastguards arrested Abdus Shukur, Ramijuddin, Ananda Kumar Das, Ayub Ali, and Ratan Kumar Das from fishermen's colonies on charges of trapping the boys into forced labor at Dublarchar. The five were brokers. "Child labor is banned, as it is an offence under Section 374 of Bangladesh Penal Code," said Divisional Forest Officer (East) Mihir Kumar. "Permits of dried fish traders will be cancelled if their involvement in engaging minor boys for forced labor is proved. Legal action will also be taken." "We have given permits to 14 fish traders this season for producing shutki fish," he said. "The season began in October and will continue till February next year. About 30,000 fishermen gather at Dublarchar every year to work for the purpose." Source: Daily Star |
| Major Food Stamp Fraud Uncovered in South Jersey |
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CAMDEN, NJ The owner of a Citgo Food Mart in Gloucester County and two store employees pleaded guilty Thursday to defrauding the federal food stamp program of more than $280,000, according to the US Attorney's Office. Mehal Mothon, 48, of Berlin, who owns the market, pleaded guilty in US District Court to conspiracy to embezzle from the US Department of Agriculture's Supplemental Nutrition and Assistance Program, or SNAP. Two store employees, 30-year-old Palwinder Singh of Buena Vista and 42-year-old Lakhwinder Singh of Cherry Hill, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to embezzle from the program. The Singhs are cousins. All three men pleaded guilty before their case
was presented to a grand jury.
Mothon said during his plea hearing that from July 2007 to March 2009, when he owned the Citgo Food Mart on Delsea Drive in Westville, he exchanged SNAP benefits for cash and told the Singhs to do the same. The SNAP benefits are supposed to be redeemed only for approved food items. Mothon and the Singhs said in court they took a 50% fee, based on each transaction. They regularly charged customers' Electronic Benefit Transfer Cards for fraudulent amounts, authorities said, and gave customers half the amount in cash while keeping the rest for themselves. The Agriculture Department paid Mothon the full amount for the transactions charged to the cards. In all, the defendants are accused of stealing $283,350. They were arrested and charged in April, following an undercover investigation by the department's Office of the Inspector General, with assistance from the US Secret Service and the Camden County Prosecutor's Office. The ongoing investigation also resulted in the June 8 arrest of Arsenio Vargas-Nunez, 31, of Camden and the Oct 27 arrest of Manuel Caba-Nunez, 23, of Camden, who were employees of Caba Grocery in Camden. They are charged with defrauding the SNAP program of at least $384,282 between June 2008 and June 2009. Also arrested on June 8 were 53-year-old Rafael Rosario of Pennsauken and 30-year-old Magdalena Rodriguez Caba De Clemente, 30, of Camden. They worked at Melina Grocery Store in Camden and are accused of embezzling at least $455,450 from the SNAP program between August 2008 and June 2009. The charges against all the defendants carry a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. Source: Vineland Daily Journal |
| Slowed Funding Imperils AIDS Treatment |
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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Slowed funding from
international donors including the US is imperiling recent dramatic gains in treating AIDS patients in the developing world, according to a new report. Billions of aid dollars channeled toward the epidemic over the past decade have
helped provide life-prolonging drugs to more than 4 million people, but the rate of infection still outpaces that of treatment. Now the global economic crisis and other factors are causing financial support to taper off, undermining progress in nations such as Uganda, where some clinics are denying new patients or accepting them only after a current patient dies, according to the report by
Doctors Without Borders.
Those are early signs of the manifestation of a dilemma some public health experts warned about after then-President George W Bush launched a multibillion-dollar US AIDS fund that now pays for the treatment of more than 2 million people. Because the medication must be taken for life, some said, the US was essentially committing to fund treatment indefinitely -- and had a moral duty to do so. But after years of expansion, funding for the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has leveled off, and less of its budget is dedicated to treatment, according to the report. President Obama, during last year's campaign, promised to increase funding. Since he took office, the funding has remained about level. "The donors, I think, are getting cold feet about committing to a long-term, chronic disease," Tido von Schoen-Angerer, director of Doctors Without Borders' Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, told reporters Thursday. "Lives are in the balance as donors are backtracking on funding commitments." Cuts are also threatening the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which distributes nearly a quarter of all HIV/AIDS donor money, according to the report. It also says that shortfalls have caused the fund, whose main contributors are the US and European countries, to cut approved grants by 10% and to consider canceling a 2010 funding round. Though the global funding retreat has not yet resulted in major cuts to AIDS treatment, it is threatening growth, or "scale-up," said officials with Doctors Without Borders. Continued expansion is key to reaching a pledge by the world's wealthiest industrialized nations to provide "universal access" to antiretroviral medication -- defined as treating 80% of the population. About 6 million people worldwide, the vast majority in sub-Saharan Africa, still lack access to the drugs. A recent study published in the Lancet found that 23% of global health funding in developing countries has gone to fight AIDS, while programs to tackle tuberculosis and malaria -- which together kill more people -- have received one-third as much. Source: Washington Post |
| Students Learn from 'Box City' Simulation |
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DEPTFORD, NJ A group of Gloucester County College students gave up their beds and opted to sleep in boxes on a recent night to bring attention to the increasing problem of homelessness in Gloucester County and throughout the country. Box City Night was organized by GCC's Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society and the Volunteer Center of Gloucester County in an effort to educate the public on the causes, needs, and prevention of homelessness. About two dozen
college students on Oct 9 set up sleeping quarters, built
makeshift homes from boxes, and spent the night on the GCC
campus.
At any time, as many as 509 homeless people are in Gloucester County, and many are children, said Demaris McManus, president of Phi Theta Kappa. A survey conducted before the event found many students did not realize homelessness was a problem in Gloucester County and saw it as a problem only in major cities. Box City Night was designed to reflect the atmosphere of a homeless shelter. Students were encouraged to panhandle -- for example, sing or play an instrument -- to make money for snacks throughout the night. One student played drums on her box home to earn Kappa dollars, the currency of the evening. The event was "completely hands-on," said Amanda Chandler, a GCC tennis player who lives in West Deptford. "Students (got) to experience what it is like to be without shelter for a night." The event was particularly meaningful for McManus. Five years ago, she was homeless after a fire struck her house. "This was really personal for me. The goal was to make people aware that anyone at any moment in time could become homeless because of an unforeseen event you cannot plan for. We tried to encourage a different attitude about the homeless. Many people do not realize that a homeless person could just be someone who is down on their luck." McManus said she and the organizers were surprised at the students' lack of knowledge about homelessness. "Before the event, nobody knew that there are homeless shelters in Gloucester County." Throughout the evening, the organizers provided statistics on homelessness in South Jersey and how students can help attack the problem by something as simple as volunteering. The group collected canned goods, personal hygiene products, blankets, coats, and other items that were then donated to Volunteers of America and Life Links. McManus said she was happy because a survey conducted the morning after the event revealed drastically different answers from the one taken before the event. "It means that the students really were listening and learned about how to help homelessness in the area." Source: Courier-Post |
| A New Race to the Bottom: Crowdsourcing |
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Adapted from a piece by Phil Wainewright:
One of the emerging phenomena associated with Web 2.0 is the notion of "crowdsourcing". This is the use of the Web to find people to complete work projects through an open competitive auction process. Dion Hinchcliffe had a long ebizQ post on its relevance to enterprise a few weeks ago, and as I read through and explored some of the links, I started to find it all rather scary: "... idea generation, design work, execution of business processes, testing services, and even customer support. All of these can now be connected, often programmatically, directly to a company's supply chain ... most companies have ready access to crowdsourcing across a wide set of functional areas, to the extent that it's often the easiest thing for them to try before going the more expensive outsourcing route." What I found scary was the massive commoditization and deflation of costs that these crowdsourcing options were enabling. It's now possible to go out and find brilliant designers working from Asia who will deliver high-quality creative work for a fraction of the price you'd pay your local design shop. Electronics manufacturers and games developers can tap the skills of teenagers as crowdsourced part-time helpdesk advisers. The systems are now sophisticated enough to make sure everyone gets paid a market rate for the work they put in. But those market rates are lowered by the global and fragmented scale of competition, in which anyone with the skills and available time can offer their services. Wired magazine recently carried an article about a company that is harnessing crowdsourcing with automation and intelligent algorithms to build a multi-million dollar business. "The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell" has some terrifying passages, such as: "That's not to say there isn't any room for humans in Demand's process. They just aren't worth very much ... It's the online equivalent of day laborers waiting in front of Home Depot ... Nearly every freelancer scrambles to load their assignment queue with titles they can produce quickly and with the least amount of effort -- because pay for individual stories is so lousy, only a high-speed, high-volume approach will work. The average writer earns $15 per article for pieces that top out at a few hundred words, and the average filmmaker about $20 per clip, paid weekly via PayPal." If this is the future of work, it's going to ruin quite a few people's careers even while it makes others. I don't think it can be stopped. Source: ebizQ |
| Penn Habitat to Rake Leaves, Raise Funds |
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PHILADELPHIA, PA Throughout November and early December, the University of Pennsylvania's Habitat for Humanity chapter will be raking in more than just leaves. Through Rake-a-thon, the group's annual fundraiser, Habitat members travel to Philadelphia's suburb-like neighborhood of Chestnut Hill to rake yards for
donations.
The event, now in its fifth year, is organized by a Habitat coalition that includes chapters from Drexel and Temple universities. Rake-a-thon will take place every weekend from Nov 14 to Dec 6. Each day of raking will last for about five hours, according to Penn Habitat Coalition Liaison and College junior Tony Jiang. The donations received through the Rake-a-thon will fund future Penn Habitat projects. "The Rake-a-thon fundraiser is a way to ... establish relationships with people while at the same time having fun and making money," Jiang said. According to Penn Habitat co-President Julia Luscombe, a College and Wharton senior, Rake-a-thon is "one of Penn Habitat's biggest fundraisers." The event raised over $4,000 last year. Luscombe, who has been a member of Penn Habitat for four years, also emphasized that Rake-a-thon has become more than just a fundraiser. "This has become a fall tradition for me. It's really great to go out and rake a lawn and know that you are going to get a substantial donation that will make a difference." According to Jiang, Penn Habitat has also fostered personal relationships with many of the Chestnut Hill homeowners over the past five years. One family even invites rakers to their home for lunch each year. "It's an opportunity to connect with the families and homeowners in Chestnut Hill," said Luscombe, "and not only get donations, but also try to spread the Habitat message." "This particular event requires a lot of manpower," Luscombe said, explaining that Habitat tries to involve students to show that Habitat not only participates in builds. A large part of the group's efforts involves raising the money that makes future house sponsorships possible. Jiang agreed that building relationships with fellow students and community members is just as important as the fundraising. Source: Daily Pennsylvanian |
| Poverty, Poor Urban Planning Increase Typhoon Risk |
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LONDON, ENGLAND Poverty, poor urban planning, and a lack of alternate livelihoods are keeping hundreds of
thousands of people in the Philippines trapped in areas that are highly vulnerable to storm and flood damage as the typhoon season continues, aid workers say. Despite a run of destructive typhoons in the past month that washed away homes and caused the worst flooding in 40 years, relief groups say many Filipinos return again and again to flood-
or landslide-prone areas because they have little or no choice.
The government is trying to provide better land for the so-called illegal settlers. It faces an uphill task to reverse years of poor urban planning that has left large sections of the population living in at-risk areas, particularly in shanty towns around big cities like Manila, which has been inundated with people from the provinces seeking work. "One of the issues the government is trying to deal with is unregistered people living in makeshift homes, but this is not an easy task," said Terje Skavdal, head of the regional office of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for the Asia-Pacific. "The government is trying to relocate these people, but the challenge is whether they want to be relocated," said Skavdal. "These makeshift homes are close to where they have their income. It's not just about giving them land, but ensuring this land is fit for purpose. These are challenges of the recovery phase that the government will need to face." The Philippines, home to 92 million people, has one of the fastest-growing populations in the region. More than a quarter of its people live on less than $1.25 a day. According to the UN, 44% of the urban population live in slums. The sprawling shanty towns block waterways, causing huge problems with drainage and sewerage. After flooding, rivers of garbage flow through the makeshift settlements. Hillside deforestation adds to the problem, putting the population at risk of landslides. The main challenge is finding alternate sources of income for people who have moved from the countryside to illegal settlements near the country's big cities. "The government is encouraging people to go back to the provinces but many don't want to," said Skavdal. "Their children are studying in Metro Manila, and they don't have a source of livelihood in the provinces." In a survey carried out in the Philippines in early October by the IBON Foundation, a research and education institution, 71% of the respondents rated themselves as poor. In July, the same figure was 67%. Source: Reuters |
| Urban Apathy Doomed Corzine |
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TRENTON, NJ Urban areas like Trenton riddled with high unemployment, crime, and apathy may explain why incumbent
Governor Jon Corzine suffered a crushing political defeat to New Jersey Governor-elect Chris Christie.
Barack Obama collected 22,000 votes in Trenton en route to his historic victory becoming the first African-American US president. On Nov 3, approximately 9,300 city registered Democrats voted when Corzine lost statewide by almost 110,000 votes. "The apathy in this city is incredible," said Annette Lartigue, a Trenton Democrat committee chairperson. "I think that if you look around the urban and metropolitan areas of New Jersey, you will find that a lot of people did not vote in those places. They could have made the difference in Corzine winning. We have gone from the high of President Obama winning the presidency to people being absolutely disengaged from the political system again." Lartigue suggested that tough economic conditions have angered and disappointed residents to the point of abandoning all political campaigns. "People are suffering, especially with regards to the economy. Unemployment and difficult times breed apathy. And you can't change apathy until you change conditions." Lartigue said many voters lacked understanding about Gov Corzine's efforts. "And things got so bad that they were not willing to wait for results." Edith Savage Jennings, a popular civil rights activist and Dr Martin Luther King family friend, said of this year's voter turnout, "From last year's wonderful history making event to [Nov 3], it was just dreadful." A high ranking Democrat speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution said Corzine "never developed an urban agenda, no jobs, nothing -- and in the end those people whom he abandoned determined his political future." Source: Trentonian |
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| Report: Palestinians Denied Water |
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PALESTINE Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum amount of clean, safe water, says Amnesty International (AI). In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. It says that in Gaza, Israel's blockade has pushed the already ailing water and sewage system to "crisis point".
Israel says the report is flawed and the Palestinians get more water than was agreed under the 1990s peace deal. In the 112-page report, AI says that on average, Palestinian daily water consumption reaches 70 liters a day, compared with 300 liters for the Israelis. It says that some Palestinians barely get 20 liters a day -- the minimum recommended even in humanitarian emergencies. While Israeli settlers in the West Bank enjoy lush gardens and swimming pools, AI describes a series of Israeli measures it says are discriminating against Palestinians:
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said, "the idea that we're taking water away from someone else is simply preposterous." He argued that Israeli fresh water use per capita had gone down since 1967 due to efficiency and new technologies, while the Palestinians' use had increased and more than a third of their water was wasted. He also rejected the claim that Israel was preventing Palestinians from drilling for water, saying Israel had approved 82 such projects but the Palestinians had only implemented 26 of them. "They have received billions of dollars in international aid over the last decade and a half, why have they not invested that in their own water infrastructure?" Source: BBC News |
| Suburban Opposition Has Impeded Camden Revitalization |
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CAMDEN, NJ The success in turning around Chelsea MA can be attributed in part to consistent support from mayors around the region, according to Jim Carlin, the first Chelsea overseer. Such support did not exist in Camden.
The takeover law in New Jersey mandated the creation of a Regional Impact Council that would have a vote on the Economic Recovery Board, which distributed recovery dollars. But the council folded after one meeting. Its representative on the board, Collingswood Mayor Jim Maley, resigned. Suddenly, the region forfeited its participatory role in Camden's recovery. Instead, it just subsidizes the city with its state tax dollars. "It just wasn't clear what the purpose was, and it was supposed to get set up with some staff, and then" the state budget crisis hit, Maley said. "It just really never got off the ground." Peter O'Connor, the father of affordable-housing laws in New Jersey, said the council met only once because there is no appetite for regional solutions. "What it would take is strong political leadership, and that leadership, although present, is not present on those issues." O'Connor said Camden can be saved only with an "out-migration" of up to half of its poor people to the suburbs, which must build more affordable housing, and an "in-migration" of the middle class to the city, which has bled population and has plenty of space. Such a plan, though, is politically impossible. "When you have the political leadership of the region opposing it, namely the suburban interests, that's the problem with Camden." Camden increased its number of affordable housing units only during the recovery, in direct contradiction to the law, which stipulated market-rate housing. But the first chief operating officer of Camden, Melvin R. "Randy" Primas Jr, said he was in a Catch-22: Without existing middle-class housing, middle-class people won't move in. But without the middle class, there is no market. He tried to redevelop the Cramer Hill section into waterfront market-rate homes, but the community objected to the planned use of eminent domain and the displacement of families. The plan ended up getting thrown out of court. "When [Gov Corzine] took the position that he didn't want to support the use of eminent domain, then lights out for Camden as far as I'm concerned," Primas said. A handful of market-rate homes will never save the city, he said. "It's going to continue to be inhabited by those folks at the end of the economic ladder. And you can't have thriving cities with folks who aren't working." Source: Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Charity Receives Unsalable World Series Apparel |
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SEATTLE, WA It seems some needy Indonesians will be wearing Philadelphia Phillies T-shirts in the months ahead. After each World Series, Major League Baseball is left with merchandise that is unusable because it touts the losing team as champion. (Like other sports organizations, the league produces apparel before the outcome of the championship games.)
To make sure the hats and other items don't go to waste, Major League Baseball donates them to World Vision (WV), an international antipoverty group in Federal Way WA. On its Web site, WV says the discarded Phillies apparel will go to children and families in Indonesia who are recovering from the 7.3 earthquake that hit in September. The clothing is in addition to the 1,300 pieces of Los Angeles Angels' and Los Angeles Dodgers' apparel that WV received when those teams lost the American League and National League championship series, respectively. Future MLB postseason apparel donations will go to additional countries. MLB works with many of its licensees to ship losing teams' apparel to WV's Gifts-in-Kind Distribution Center in Pittsburgh PA. The goods are then sorted and packaged for shipment to developing countries where WV has experienced staff and established product distribution networks. "Baseball is a social institution with important social responsibilities and this is a tremendous opportunity for Major League Baseball to make an impact on the lives of those in need around the world," said Baseball Commissioner Allan H (Bud) Selig. "We are pleased to work with World Vision, which brings 60 years of experience successfully assisting millions of people around the world." WV carefully monitors and track the unsalable postseason merchandise as it makes its way to the intended beneficiaries. WV's network and resources offer a secure, turnkey process to effectively utilize excess inventory that might otherwise have been destroyed. "The children and families we serve will take great joy in these goods," said WV president Richard Stearns. "World Vision thanks Major League Baseball and its partners for recognizing that even though these items are unsalable, they are valued and appreciated by many people in need around the world." WV says in some cases the baseball donations are the first new article of clothing the recipients have ever owned. So even if you're not happy the New York Yankees won, there is some good news coming out of the Series. Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy Source: World Vision |
| Donated Bicycles Eliminate Long Walks for Ghana Schoolkids |
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GHANA, WEST AFRICA Cadbury Ghana and Cadbury Canada on Nov 3 donated 5,000 bicycles to be distributed to schoolchildren in deprived cocoa growing communities to increase their access to education. The donation comes in the wake of the long distances the children walk to school.
It is part of a 45 million pounds Cadbury Cocoa Partnership, an initiative developed to secure the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of almost a million cocoa farmers and their communities. In Ghana, the partnership is investing 30 million pounds sterling for the next 10 years. The Bicycle Factory initiative was launched by Cadbury Canada. Canadians visit the virtual factory at www.thebicyclefactory.ca where every Cadbury UPC code entered online will equal a bicycle part and for every 100 UPC codes, a bicycle is built. James Boateng, Managing Director of Cadbury Ghana, said the donation would go a long way to build on the country's human resources and improve the performance of the schoolchildren. Kids who have the greatest need and travel three kilometers or more would benefit from the package in the more than 216 cocoa-growing communities in Central and Southern Ghana. "This is a remarkable example of the commitment of Cadbury to the partnership and to the development of the manpower needs of the community," Gary Scullion, General Manager Cadbury Canada said. "We hope with this, we are not only extending the frontiers of education but also ensuring that the vulnerable in society get access to education, which is key for development." According to the UN, more than 40 million African children are growing up without schooling. Alex Tetteh Enyo, Minister of Education, said the bicycle was a major incentive to increase access to education in rural communities since it would save the children from walking long distances to school. Source: Ghana News Agency |
| Orphans from Korea Struggle with Identity |
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UNITED STATES A study says that more than half of the first generation of children adopted from Korea struggle with their ethnic identity.
In a New York Times article, Kim Eun Mi Young, who was adopted in 1961 by an American family, said she used to hate being different as a child. She ignored a picture book about Korea when her father brought it home for her. She only dated white boys, even when Asian boys were around. "At no time did I consider myself anything other than white," said Young, 48, who lives in San Antonio TX. "I had no sense of any identity as a Korean woman. Dating an Asian man would have forced me to accept who I was." According to Young, she began to explore her Korean heritage in her 30s. One night, after going out with her husband to celebrate, she told the press she broke down and began crying uncontrollably. "I remember sitting there thinking, where is my mother? Why did she leave me? Why couldn't she struggle to keep me? That was the beginning of my journey to find out who I am." Significant changes have occurred since the first generation of adopted children were brought to the US, says the article. At first, parents were told to assimilate the children into their family without considering their native culture, but now more and more adoptive parents are trying to expose their adopted children to their own culture. Heidi Weitzman, who was adopted from Korea when she was 7 months old, grew up in an ethically diverse neighborhood in St Paul MN. She told the Times that her parents were in touch with other parents with Korean children and offered to send her to "culture camp," where she could learn about her native culture. "But I hated it," said Weitzman. "I didn't want to do anything that made me stand out as being Korean. Being surrounded by people who were blondes and brunettes, I just thought that I was white." Weitzman said she began to become comfortable being Korean when she moved to New York after college, "I was 21 before I could look in the mirror and not be surprised by what I saw staring back at me," she said. "The process of discovering who I am has been a long process, and I'm still on it." According to the article, Weitzman's self-discovery process is typical of the 179 Korean adoptees with two Caucasian parents who responded to the study. Most of them responded that they began to think of themselves more as Korean when they attended college or moved to an ethnically diverse neighborhood. Source: Korea Herald |
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