...but how unfair for any human being to have to deal with these circumstances

I’m an Asian Adoptee from southern Korea and this is my truth: I was told I was an illegitimate child given up by my birth mother and abandoned by my birth father. When in fact, my parents were always married and I had two older sisters. My adoption agency created a tragic story about my life in order for me to be more “adopt-able.” Miss Saigon perpetuates the “White Savior” complex in Asian orphans and paints a tragic sob story where abandoned, helpless and poor children need saving. Countries where people and children are displaced due to economic strife, war, environmental disasters, etc. do not need the the Imperialist West to “save” them. They need the resources to rebuild their lives and ensile safety, love, and community. Taking children away from their country, homes and families is not the answer.

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