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Title: The Amerasian Paradox
Language: English
Authors: Kutschera, P. C., Pelayo, Jose Maria G., III
Source: Online Submission. 2012.
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 15
Publication Date: 2012
Document Type: Reports - Research
Speeches/Meeting Papers
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Multiracial Persons, Filipino Americans, Anglo Americans, Females, Young Adults, Social Attitudes, Socioeconomic Status, Advantaged, Social Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Case Studies, Semi Structured Interviews, Foreign Countries
Geographic Terms: Philippines
Abstract: Multiple anecdotal accounts and a thin body of extant empirical research on an estimated 250,000 multiple generation, mixed-heritage military Amerasians in the Philippines, and Pan Amerasians residing in other East and Southeast Asian societies, indicates substantial past and present stigmatization and discrimination--particularly Amerasians of African descent. However, a certain segment of Filipino Amerasians, females with pronounced Caucasian features, comprise a paradoxical exception. The abandoned progeny of U.S. servicemen, corporate military contractor and government male workers who occupied permanent bases for nearly a century, Africans and to a lesser extent, Anglo Amerasians, are targets of intense name-calling, verbal harassment and occasional physical violence beginning at an early age. This often transforms into a lifetime of socioeconomic marginalization and cultural isolation. Typically, Amerasians are ridiculed because of differential skin color, facial features and the stereotypical assumption that the majority were children of sex laborers and transient soldier fathers who had forsaken them. However, there is incipient research and anecdotal accounts bolstered by this five participant, purposive sample, multiple-case "pilot" study that young adult female Anglos may have not only eluded the stigmatized fate of the majority of Filipino Amerasians, African or Anglo, but in some cases actually benefitted socioeconomically and psychologically.
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Number of References: 28
Entry Date: 2013
Accession Number: ED542472
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