Having mixed heritage including but not limited to Native American, White American, African American, Latin American, Anglo-Australian, Anglo-French, Japanese, Korean or SE Asian ethnic heritage is definitely common to the VN Adoptee community. We invite you to explore your diversity and lobby for the rights of Amerasians not only in Vietnam but around the world.
Would you like to share a link, a petition or even write a personal essay to post here on your experiences as an 'Amerasian' or 'Eurasian' Vietnamese adoptee? Please email with 'VN adoptee story' in the subject line: adoptedvietnamese@hotmail.com
External Websites:
War and Children - The
Identity Project
Amerasian
Dream- reunite
Amerasian children
Saigon Nezumi Page (Kevin Miller/Amerasian Resources)
The
Multiracial Acitivist page
- Amerasian Registry
The Amerasian Registry was created to help assist Amerasians, their Fathers, and/or Family Members search for each other around the World. The Amerasian Registry intends to be the main central database for all Amerasians and their Fathers in the future. The Registry will be available to all of those interested including organizations that assist Amerasians.
- Amerasian Child Find
Their web site http://www.amerasian-childfind.org states: "We dedicated to assisting Amerasians and their Father’s reunite. Our services are free to principals searching for lost family. We are not aligned with any group, governmental agency or cause. Our Only function is the reunification of families.Our primary focus is Vietnamese Amerasians, however, we will assist any child fathered by a member of the United States Armed Services, or a person working for the U.S. Government outside of the United States."
.- Amerasian Child Find Network, Inc www.amerasian-childfind.org (Main Contact: Clint Haines)
-Personal Narrative Daniel Le
A biography of Amerasian Daniel
Le
*please notify us if you find an inactive link
I don't think I'm fully Vietnamese, Is there an answer to Who Am I?
A new test by DNAPrint Genomics, Inc., of Sarasota, Florida, offers one kind of answer.
This company, which calls itself “the world’s first recreational genomics testing service,” at a cost of between $160 and $290 will decipher parts of the genetic blueprint coded in DNA swabbed by Q-tip from the inside of your cheek.
The test compares selected sets of your DNA’s genetic markers known as SNP’s (“snips”) with those in public databases. This comparison is used to infer from which of five or more geographical areas (and in what proportion of each) your ancestors came — factors that some unscientifically think of as your "race." These geographic regions of origin are classified as “Native American, East Asian, South Asian, European, sub-Saharan African, etc.,” according to New York Times science reporter Nicholas Wade’s reading of the company website.
Thanks to Linh
Thuy Song
Executive Director
Mam Non Organization
www.mamnon.org
For suggesting the following:
SWIRL - Swirl
aims to unite the mixed community by providing support to
mixed families, mixed individuals, transracial adoptees, and
inter-racial/cultural couples. Through a Big Sibling/Little Sibling
Program, various social events, and educational lectures and
discussions, Swirl will be a meeting place for members of the mixed
community to celebrate and explore their heritages.
http://www.swirlinc.org/nflash.htm
A
Slovenian-Vietnamese American woman runs through her phases and
confrontations.
http://www.webojunk.com/hapa.html
A young hapa describes growing up in Berkeley and his trip to Vietnam,
how
he is treated (positively).
http://www.nomadic5.com/TeddyHapa.htm
Film summary on "Bastards" a film by Loc Do on two Amerasian brothers
and
their experience in Westminster, California...otherwise known as Little
Saigon.
http://www.geocities.com/~polfilms/bastards.html
Phuong Thao is another pop star with a strong following within Vietnam.
http://www.click2vietartists.net/html/singer_phuongthaongocle/
http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020Friday_001124_vietpop_feature.html
Bumblebee: the Afro-Asian Online Community's Newsletter
http://naysa1.tripod.com/afamasam/index.html
A book called "What Are You?" on the mixed-race experience. A
question
that most Asian Americans learn to deal with.
http://www.whatareyou.com/
The most extensive list of online resources I found on hapas; articles,
webrings, discussion groups, and photos.
http://www.geocities.com/hapakun/
Terms used in the multiracial community, including Blacknamese for those
with Black and Vietnamese ancestry.
http://www.mixedfolks.com/names.htm