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What MLK Day Means to an Adopted Asian American

I sat on this post for quite some time because I wanted to get it just right.

I felt like it was my duty to portray with accuracy and clarity how I felt; in fact, I felt like it was simply an honor that I, being a middle-class adopted asian american male, could even communicate my feelings publicly.

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I Thank God for Online Video

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While I was in Korea I was able to keep in touch easily with a handy webcam and my computer.

I could tell Roenne goodnight each night and make sure she was “behaving”… I could also give updates to the people that matter the most in my life as well as record my thoughts in video-format…

More thoughts after the jump…

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Korea – KBS Live Broadcast – Pete’s Wearing My Shirt

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The following 6 videos make up the KBS Live Broadcast show where adoptees are interviewed and share their experiences on live TV in Korea. Entire segment is almost an hour long.

The effort is to share about their lives as well as make an attempt to reach their birth parents through the show.  2 of the adoptees on the trip had actual call-ins from relatives…!  It was insane.

A pre-recorded segment of Pete and I is on the 3rd vid, around the 6:10 mark… and then Pete rocks it around 9:30 mark on the same vid and into the 4th.

He’s wearing my shirt, since he apparently “ran out”…  …  Yeah, right.

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Korea – Day 9 – Flying Home with My Questions and Yours

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Questions, questions, questions.

Remember when you first realized the ground-breaking truth that the “more you learn the more you realize you don’t know“?  I’ve got that times 1,000,000,000 or so…

Read more about the Q’s after the jump.

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Korea – Day 8 – My Name Is…

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That’s me.

There are many words to describe who I am, both self-described and by others.  The latter are subject to different perspectives, contexts, and historical engagements.

But there is only 1 “name”:  John Lee Saddington.  Well, actually 2.   The other is Lee Joon Han.

Or, it was.

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