Pearl S. Buck International

After browsing the antiracism.net website, I found an article that talked about a reversal of racist sentiments from Korean society in their attempts to embrace an American athlete Hines Ward (Pittsburg Steeler) who is of mixed African-American and Korean race. Traditionally, biracial children, particularly those who have American lineage are ostracized and marginalized from most Asian communities. This was true for this athlete as well....until he was voted MVP this year. Now Korea wants to open its arms and roll out the red carpet. Many talks have "suddenly" emerged to reconsider the public stance on biracial children, but a great deal of damage has been done.

Enter the Pearl S. Buck International foundation. This group focuses its efforts on finding adoption and support services for biracial children from Asian countries. It is common knowledge that children of color are the last to be adopted world-wide, and this is of little exception for biracial children, who in the past were not legally eligible for adoption at all.

Their goals are to combat racism by offering these children the chance to see that their lives are of value, and that they deserve love, caring and respect to eventually become anti-racists themselves.

This is working on the micro level and reflects the fourth point in my working hypothesis:

"The more successful models are situations where change is sought on a micro level and not through overarching public policies. (De-segregation didn't actually work, even though segregation was made illegal.) I believe that examples of diverse communities do not arise organically, but deliberately as forms of active resistance. "

http://www.psbi.org/