Bombies<\/a>, and everyone should really check it out.\u00a0 What’s that information doing on my page, a journal that supposedly only focuses on my random drawings and interests?\u00a0 Well…\u00a0if everyone hasn’t noticed by now, I am an artist, born in Laos, but lived here in\u00a0the U.S.\u00a0almost all my life.\u00a0 Even though I grew up on a steady diet of American pop culture, I haven’t forgotten the struggles of my elders and the people back home.\u00a0 It’s a life that many my age and background can attest to, of trying to assimilate into the American culture, while still retaining\u00a0our cultural roots.\u00a0 After seeing the film, I wanted to scream in outrage, at the unfairness of situations in all corners of the globe and especially the horrible things that went on\u00a030+ years ago back in Southeast Asia.\u00a0 Yes, this coming from a person that again, can tell you all the invisible blocks in a level from Super Mario Bros., or the origins of all of Spider-Man’s villains, or the best place for Pork Buns off Buford Hwy.\u00a0 Just because people\u00a0my age grew up a certain way, or\u00a0have other far different interests,\u00a0doesn’t mean we don’t have the same capacity to feel, or empathize, with situations and lives of others across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"…………You know…………there’s more to me than drawings and photos\u00a0of pretty girls………… I had a chance to finally view Jack Silberman’s very moving film on\u00a0unexploded bombs in Laos.\u00a0 The film is called Bombies, and everyone should really check it out.\u00a0 What’s that information doing on my page, a journal that supposedly only focuses on my random […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[41,287],"class_list":{"0":"post-751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-lao-culture","8":"category-photos","9":"tag-laotian-culture","10":"tag-photos","12":"post-with-thumbnail","13":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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