A message from the Southeast Asian Resource Action Center - TopicsExpress



          

A message from the Southeast Asian Resource Action Center (SEARAC): There is a widely shared perception that Asian Americans do not need help, Tran says. But the stereotypes derived from images of affluent Chinese or Japanese immigrants and their often highly educated children ignore the reality of hundreds of thousands of children born in this country to refugees from Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. ... we as a country need to take into account that for many Southeast Asian refugees, the past remains more challenging than the present. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the usual diagnosis, and its reality — repetitive emotional trauma triggered every time a car backfires or the news shows a violent crime, followed by sudden rages or a long and silent numbness — is all too common. pndblog.typepad/pndblog/2014/05/under-construction-southeast-asia-resource-action-center.html
Posted on: Wed, 21 May 2014 21:30:24 +0000

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