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KoreanWar Brides

First Korean War Bride: Lee Yong Soon Nearly 20% of Korean/American today can trace their militarized migration history to Korean War Brides. The allowance of Korean war brides was an action made to make the U.S. seem more humanitarian. Koreans were assimilated into American society. Korean war brides were rumored to be prostitutes Seen as "sexually erotic, threatening, licentious, as well as properly domesticated, feminine, and delicate," and “permissive, self sacrificing and exceedingly obedient to their hard work Korean women expected to integrate into American population seamlessly and quietly

https://www.apa.org/pubs/highlights/s potlight/issue-119 https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life- and-relationships/because-i-am-small- and-asian-i-am-fetishised-by-some- white-men-20181126-p50ifk.html "Militarized Migrations" by Crystal Mun-hye Baik "In our Lifetime" by Hyejin Shim Even after 70 years, Asian women today are still fetishized and are faced with racist and sexist sentiments. Some people percieve Asian women to be subservient and therefore treat them as obedient children rather than adults. This phenomenon, "Yellow Fever" is identified to be an Asian fetish in which people uphold these ideals when meeting Asian women. Sources:

"the Asian face carries some special gene that makes us soft-spoken, gentle and non-confrontational" People enforce the idea that "Asians have petite, child-like bodies" People live under the assumption that all Asians carry the same traits. Here are the perceived traits from a study that asked 107 adult women who self-identified as Asian-American: Exotic Submissive Passive Cute and Small Invisible Service worker Universal Bad Drivers