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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

NYT - Adopted From Korea and in Search of Identity

From my archive of press clippings:

New York Times

Adopted From Korea and in Search of Identity


By RON NIXON

Published: November 8, 2009

As a child, Kim Eun Mi Young hated being different.

DIFFERENT Kim Eun Mi Young in an undated photo with her brothers, David, left, and Shawn. Growing up, she says, “at no time did I consider myself anything other than white.”

J. Michael Short for The New York Times

Kim Eun Mi Young in her San Antonio home with family photographs and mementos.

When her father brought home toys, a record and a picture book on South Korea, the country from which she was adopted in 1961, she ignored them.

Growing up in Georgia, Kansas and Hawaii, in a military family, she would date only white teenagers, even when Asian boys were around.

Read the whole article here.

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