The birth of the WMAF pairing is rooted in American white GIs heading off to Asia to kill our Asian brothers in our motherlands, and carrying home with them Asian sisters as trophies. Not people , but trophies. Spoils of war. This was the first significant wave of immigration of Asian women into the US after the Page Act of 1875, and almost all of them were married to White men.
Now, consider the situation of the Asian man living in America at that time. For decades, you have endured in this country, working demeaning jobs while dealing with constant racism, vilification in the popular press, and outbursts of violence from angry white mobs. You were unable to bring your wife over from Asia thanks to the Page Act, and laws prevented you from even thinking about marrying with any Whites. You’ve consigned yourself to a lonely, hard life, but at least it’s a life.
The Truth is we are scarcely two generations removed from an era when openly racist laws were put into place to systematically wipe out Asian men, and World War II, where many of our existing brothers and sisters were thrown into concentration camps, regardless of whether they were Japanese or not, or born here. Meanwhile, the only Asian women coming into this country were the wives of American servicemen from wars conducted in Asia, in numbers that would forever have drastic inter-generational impacts on their ethnic communities.
