One Asian Individual, by Ruth Baja Williams
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“One Asian Individual” follows Ruth Baja Williams's first memoir, “Detour Berlin,” which chronicles her experiences in Cold War Berlin. After returning to the United States, Ruth becomes an American citizen. She misquotes the words of the Pledge of Allegiance. She thinks “one nation indivisible” is “one Asian individual.” Ruth decides that what she thought she heard was accurate after all because the second half of her life is about discovering herself, her Asian self.
One Asian Individual, by Ruth Baja Williams- Amazon Sales Rank: #2496939 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-30
- Released on: 2015-11-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .17" w x 6.00" l, .24 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 66 pages
About the Author Although she was born in Manila, Ruth Baja Williams never lived in the Philippines. Leaving the land of her birth at age two, she was in California at the start of the Second World War. At the war's end, her father entered the Philippine Foreign Service. Now as the daughter of a Philippine diplomat, Ruth lived in Hong Kong, Djakarta, and Sydney. Undergraduate studies brought her to California, but Cupid lured her to Germany, where she spent twenty years. On returning to the United States, she realized she belonged everywhere and nowhere.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A memoir and love story By Tony Nino It’s hard to put Ruth Williams in a pigeonhole; in fact, to capture her, you’d need something more like a honeycomb. She was a citizen of the multicultural world long before multicultural was a word. The places she called home included Manila, Sydney, Augsburg, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Djakarta and Los Angeles, and that doesn’t even count her adventures in Berlin.This is her story – a story that began, and very nearly ended in the Philippines at the deadly onset of Japanese empire building. By luck, her Philippine diplomat dad was sent abroad to the safety of America, but the price Ruth paid for escaping the ravages of war, was a loss of any meaningful connection to any family. She grew up in a series of private boarding schools around the world.Hers is the story of a citizen of the world with no place to call home. However, rather than lament the loss of a traditional home and family, Ruth simply builds homes of her own using nothing but her imagination. Luckily for her readers, what she imagines is anything but simple.She didn’t just learn English, she learned two sets of accents and idioms – Australian and West Coast American – so well that when she spoke on the phone, listeners either pictured a sunny, tanned Sheila or a tall blonde Surfer Girl. And tall she was definitely not. “five foot and a half an inch (and don’t you dare forget that half inch).” She loved actually meeting those phone voices in person just to see the looks on their faces.Fiercely independent and essentially free of any family control, Ruth saw no reason not to fall in love and enter into an interracial marriage. However, in her family’s eyes, any marriage to any other race was a step down. And being darker, according to Philippine Folklore, meant that your race was the most inferior, because God had “burnt” those races in his heavenly oven. Charles was black.Naturally when it came to settling down, the first place that a black man and an “Asian” woman would pick would be Germany in the 50s. However, after the 2nd World War few Germans actually spoke openly about the politically incorrect “Arian Race,” because losing a war tempers ethnocentric nationalism. Of course white was still white and anything else was suspect… Except for the any member of the three Airlift nations that had kept Berliner families clothed and fed during the Russian Blockade. That love was especially true for Americans.Feeling welcomed, Ruth and Charles settled in “for a while” and experienced the post war history of Berlin: the building of the Berlin Wall, the machine gunning of East German Escapees, JFK’s “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” speech, Reagen’s “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!,” and eventually, the actual fall of the wall. In between the history, Charles became a stage and TV star, Ruth wrote and raised two children, and they both fell in love with a city surrounded by a wall with Russian forces on other side.Ruth weaves engrossing threads of heart, humanity and history. She lets us feel what she felt, so we can welcome both of the cities of Berlin, East and West, into our hearts as she did. She tells two love stories, of her life with Charles and her love of a city. She lets us listen in as she faces the unexpected people and events responsible for making a one- or two-year stay stretch into decades.Exciting, unnerving and at times unsettling, “One Asian Individual” invites us to join Ruth Williams on a journey to build the best family and home she could imagine.Enjoy her imagination at work.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Memoir, travelogue and timely reminder to us all By Julie A. Davis Ruth Baja Williams takes the reader on her personal journey as an Asian growing up and living in several countries, none of them the country of her birth. Her memoir is part travelogue, over time, from 1941 to 2015. It is not just her story as it holds a mirror to all those with whom she has interacted in that period.Her story is a timely contribution to writings on identity and self-discovery in this 21st century world when so many of its population are global citizens. The book raises questions for those of us secure in our national identities; those of us who have spent our lives in one country; those of us who have travelled the world and have always had a place to call home. National populations are changing rapidly through migration, through the willing or unwilling movements of people forced to relocate to foreign environments. Ruth Baja Williams’ incisive observations and honest reporting of her search for an identity serve as a reminder to all of us who have stayed home to expand our concepts of national identity; to put out the welcome mat, to look beyond a person’s physical appearance and accent, beyond their colour, sexual orientation, or whatever makes them different in our eyes.Thank you to Ruth for her willingness to share her sometimes painful experiences with honesty and a good dose of humour. Her skilful writing, vivid and lucid prose makes for a very good read.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This is a lovely book. It is a lyrically ... By Craig This is a lovely book. It is a lyrically sensitive account of the author's continuing quest, during a lifetime spent in many diverse cultures and environments, to know who she truly is. The sense of place, so intrinsic in most of us, for her remains elusive. The reader travels with her in her search, which becomes a learning experience for both.
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