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Today we welcome Mark, a South Korean transracial adoptee who was raised by White American parents and has a lot of thoughts on issues involving transracial adoption. Mark writes and podcasts over at Plan A magazine (http://planamag.com).

Mark's articles on Adoptees without citizenship: https://planamag.com/adoption-without-citizenship-is-human-trafficking-787d81ac2152?source=false---------0 and also https://planamag.com/the-existence-of-adoptees-without-citizenship-is-an-indictment-of-american-justice-2075f42d4c0?source=false---------3

Articles on Christian Adoption fever: https://newrepublic.com/article/127311/trouble-christian-adoption-movement and https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/christian-evangelical-adoption-liberia/

"Taking on South Korea's adoption taboo" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30692127

Brene Brown on empathy vs. sympathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw

UN's definition of genocide: http://www.un.org/ar/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf

"Ethiopia will no longer allow foreigners to adopt its children" https://qz.com/africa/1176618/ethiopia-bans-foreign-adoptions/

"Foster Care as Punishment: The New Reality of ‘Jane Crow’" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/nyregion/foster-care-nyc-jane-crow.html

Clip from the movie Rabbit-Proof Fence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wEkLnxfZ3g