The similarities between multiasians and the latinos are that they are both a mix of multiple ethnicities due to no other choices of mating at the time they were conceived. The american men paired with the vietnamese during the war and there was a lack of european women in america while poeple just started to migrate to the USA which left the latina women and others living close by. The differences are the latinos werent really abandoned though because they already lived here where as the multiasian children were left in asia with the mother for the most part. This caused people to look down upon the child because the mother was basically used and not cared about or anything. This causes the multiasians to not really have a “homeland” where as the latinos are functioning better. Also the multiasians didnt really ever know the american men at all where the latinas may have lived with ro seriosuly dated the americans because they both occupied the same lands permanently. In both cases it is not something special though, it was more acceptable for the indians/latinas to be with the american men as it was for the vietnamese women to be left behind by the american troops. I dont believe the cases bring up the same questions because the vietnamese women were basically used and the women her in america were wedding and dating.
October 10, 2007 at 10:06 pm
You make some interesting observations. Remember that some Latino/as do not feel as if this is home; and Latino/as are sometimes viewed as the stereotypical “Latina Lover”, which can influence why some American men want to date/wed Latinas. Your observation concerning Asian women is dead on: they were often used by soldiers, leaving their Amerasian children to suffer the consequences of being biracial in a very racist world.
Good job. (10 out of 10)