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kyburgHeartsent's class this last Saturday was titled "Celebrating Your Child's Culture."
It's no surprise - the research bears it out - that transracial adoptees have an additional hurdle. They don't look like Mom and Dad, and white parents tend to raise their non-white kids to be, well, white. (You can insert my HUH anywhere you like.)
Suggestions?
Well, if you don't have any Asian friends, you need to think about cultivating some.
And if your home has no Asian things in it, you might consider adding them now.
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caitlin at Famima when we got there. I could hear her laughing inside the store. (They were still outside.)
I do think we'll join Families with Children From China now, rather than later -
But it anyone wants to know if I've ever encountered racism myself? I think this qualifies - amusement aside. Benign, well-meant, and all that.
And my lack of alarm is very typical - to me, there is no real danger in racism, except from annoyance. That's my white-bread legacy. I can be "painted" any color I allow - my race - and the entitlements that come with it - permit it. But it's only paint, after all - or is it?
Depends.
We'll likely add a number of events to the calendar - we already do Chinese New Year, and we're aware of the Moon Festival - and yeah, it's likely we'll add Chinese school on the weekends when she/they hit school age. (We'll go too. Oh, throw us in the briar patch.)
But - we'll also continue to do Nisei Week. The party the Swiss Park throws around the first of August. We'll go to Solvang. And Knoxville. And Kailua-Kona.
And Olvera Street. Maybe, I should add Christmas tamales to the menu for Christmas Eve this year. (GHAD I LOVE THEM.)
And make sure they know the story behind The Ramona Pagent, same as I did growing up.
Our culture. Built out of many diverse origins - but it'll be ours.
White people scare us. I swear, the t-shirts should be made.
It's no surprise - the research bears it out - that transracial adoptees have an additional hurdle. They don't look like Mom and Dad, and white parents tend to raise their non-white kids to be, well, white. (You can insert my HUH anywhere you like.)
Suggestions?
Well, if you don't have any Asian friends, you need to think about cultivating some.
And if your home has no Asian things in it, you might consider adding them now.
..
Y'all can stop laughing now. Jim couldn't wait to spring that on
caitlin at Famima when we got there. I could hear her laughing inside the store. (They were still outside.)I do think we'll join Families with Children From China now, rather than later -
But it anyone wants to know if I've ever encountered racism myself? I think this qualifies - amusement aside. Benign, well-meant, and all that.
And my lack of alarm is very typical - to me, there is no real danger in racism, except from annoyance. That's my white-bread legacy. I can be "painted" any color I allow - my race - and the entitlements that come with it - permit it. But it's only paint, after all - or is it?
Depends.
We'll likely add a number of events to the calendar - we already do Chinese New Year, and we're aware of the Moon Festival - and yeah, it's likely we'll add Chinese school on the weekends when she/they hit school age. (We'll go too. Oh, throw us in the briar patch.)
But - we'll also continue to do Nisei Week. The party the Swiss Park throws around the first of August. We'll go to Solvang. And Knoxville. And Kailua-Kona.
And Olvera Street. Maybe, I should add Christmas tamales to the menu for Christmas Eve this year. (GHAD I LOVE THEM.)
And make sure they know the story behind The Ramona Pagent, same as I did growing up.
Our culture. Built out of many diverse origins - but it'll be ours.
White people scare us. I swear, the t-shirts should be made.
