{"id":558,"date":"2010-05-18T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ta100people.wpengine.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2010-05-18T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T18:11:44","slug":"baldwin-yen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/baldwin-yen\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldwin Yen &#8211; Iraq War Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplePullQuote right\"><p>I think it&#8217;s already happening a bit, but I&#8217;d just like America as a  whole to understand the plight of Taiwan and its relationship with  America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-559\" title=\"yen.baldwin2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/yen.baldwin2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"yen.baldwin2\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/yen.baldwin2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/yen.baldwin2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Who are you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a 31 year old, second generation Taiwanese American. I went to UCLA for Computer Science and Engineering, where I enlisted in the Army Reserve. In 2004 I was deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and served as a broadcast journalist. Since then, I came back, moved to Los Angeles, and now work as a video game designer and an aspiring actor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you do?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I work for a non-profit on a volunteer basis, promoting service-member issues (<a href=\"http:\/\/IAVA.org\">IAVA.org<\/a>), design video games, and try to act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are you proud to be of Taiwanese heritage?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>I&#8217;m proud to be Taiwanese because that&#8217;s what I am. But I&#8217;m also proud to be Taiwanese because it&#8217;s a wealthy, developing country which has struggled to create its own form of democracy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the  future of Taiwanese America look like to you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s already happening a bit, but I&#8217;d just like America as a whole to understand the plight of Taiwan and its relationship with America. And I imagine this happening because Taiwanese Americans will pierce the consciousness of America with their acts, ability, and natural talents. I want America to be informed to the point where people stop asking me if Taiwan is a part of China.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-560\" title=\"yen.baldwin1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/yen.baldwin1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"yen.baldwin1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/yen.baldwin1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/yen.baldwin1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA Who are you? I am a 31 year old, second generation Taiwanese American. I went to UCLA for Computer Science and Engineering, where I enlisted in the Army Reserve. In 2004 I was deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and served as a broadcast journalist. Since then, I came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taiwaneseamerican.org\/100people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}