Eric McDaniel was adopted at the age of four to a family in Kansas City, Missouri. On the car ride from the airport, his mom opened up a photo album showing four polaroid photos - one of a car, a big house, his Mom and brother smiling, and his bed. Having vivid memories of being abandoned, it finally clicked with him that he was getting a second chance and this was the family he wanted. Eric learned to adjust and quickly understood that fending for himself and fighting fire with fire was not the only way to live. By the time he entered high school, he had lost his Korean identity and became the catalyst to his own racism.
Eric wanted to keep himself accountable for his actions and reconnected with Korean culture and his Korean identity after making his first Korean friend at university. With flashbacks of Korea coming back to him, he made up his mind to go to Korea as an English teacher and use it as an opportunity to search for his birth parents. The search was successful and he was able to have the chance to rekindle a relationship with his parents and extended family while also discovering he had half siblings adopted to France. Eric shares how second chances allowed him to love his Korean family again and thanks the internet and global adoptee community for helping him locate his half siblings.
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Interviewer: Becky White
Videographers: Becky White @TheHalfieProjectCedric Stout @skycedi
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4 окт 2024