In Laybourn’s article, she states that “many of the Korean adoptees interviewed in her study identified as White growing up (pg. 32), most had felt firmly rooted in their White Adoptive families, and had negative perceptions of being Korean” (pg. 33). An interviewee in Chen’s article in Buzzfeed “spent a majority of her teenage years hating being Korean.” Discuss what aspects of Systems of Oppression could play an influencing factor in the experiences of the Adoptees featured in these two readings.
