Keywords
Adoption in which the parents and child are from different countries/nations/polities.
What is Transnational Adoption?
Conflict lasting from 1955-1975 in which the United States involved itself in a problematic conflict between a northern Communist cell and a southern Anti-Communist cell, of which the United States sided with the latter. Directly affects Heidi and her adoption via Operation Babylift.
What is The Vietnam War?
Name of the US operation where 2,000 "Orphans" were air transported to the US, Europe and Australia.
What is Operation Babylift?
Adoption in which the child and parents are not of the same racial/ethnic background.
What is Transracial Adoption?
Conflict lasting from 1950-1953 in which the United States supported the anti-communist cell and eventually involved itself in the (previously) civil war. Conflict leads to circumstances where Deann is adopted into the United States.
What is the Korean War?
The informal (and perhaps more accurate) name for the operation in which 2,000 "Orphans" were air transported to the US, Europe and Australia.
What is "Operation Babysteal"?
20th/21st Century influence over smaller territories using power and influences. Include non physical invasive tactics (such as Operation Babylift).
What is Neo-Imperialism?
This is the US state where Ann Neville raised Heidi after adoption.
What is Tennessee?
Who is President Gerald Ford?
A child who has one or both parents living, but is separated from the parent(s) through external circumstances, such as poverty.
What is a Social Orphan?
State where Deann (Ok Jin) is raised by the Borshay family.
What is California?
Nickname of the Korean War (1950-1953).
What is "The Forgotten War"?
A disconnect or denial from family/friend circles based on purely social circumstances, such as Ichiro's "No-No Boy" status or the farce adoptions of Heidi and Deann.
What is Social Death?
The girl who is swapped with Deann (Ok Jin) at the adoption center in Korea.
Who is Cha Jung Hee?
The reason Heidi's mother (along with many others) sent Heidi in the direction to the Operation Babylift program.
What are The Purported Consequences of Heidi's Mixed Heritage?