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At six, she followed her Korean mother to a ramshackle bar and discovered that her mother was for sale to U.S. servicemen. On the way home, alone, the little girl had an even more traumatic experience: a man lured her into an alley and assaulted her. At eight, she learned...
There are an estimated 20,000 half-caste children in Korea; 500 to 600 more are born each year. Sadly, even in their homeland, they are displaced persons from birth. Under the Confucian concept of tightly knit families, Korea's half-castes are considered outcasts. And the mixed-blood...
Much of the credit belongs to the actors-especially to 28-year-old Tom Courtenay (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner), who plays Hamp as an inarticulate, baffled, baited animal, hurting with foolish hope. But it is the style and shaping of the whole that gives the film its...
The hatred lies bone-deep, and is cultural as well as religious. Hindus worship cows and Moslems eat them. Hindus regard Moslems as unclean, and Moslems call Hindus caste-ridden. The great Sepoy Rebellion still rankles. When Moslem regiments revolted, Hindus helped the British to crush them.
Social change has even managed to shiver-if not shatter-India's long-frozen caste system. Low-caste village scavengers-who under Hindu tradition skinned dead livestock to sell the hides -now find less messy jobs. Hide merchants from the cities are forced to send out trucks with their...