>It's heavy-handed, yes, this I admit.
>

You know, I never noticed, I took it as a means, not an end in itself <shrug>

>
>The treatment of half-Viet, half-American kids in Vietnamese
>orphanages at the end of the war, most likely, athough you'd have to
>ask Martin Rose.
>

Looking a little more boradly, how about how any group of similar children will treat those who are dissimilar? One does not need to look far to find cruelty like that, really... I know I only need to think back to my grade school years...

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