Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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 Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| little mixed girl wrote: |
...i don't think it has anything to do with adoptees preferring to live in an orphanage, or rejecting their birth parents...
just think about it, if you don't look like your parents, people stare, ask questions, make ignorant comments.
some of the adoptive parents have no idea about racism and if the kid is having issues at school they might wash over it...
or the parent might tell them to "get over it".
i heard that some adoptions that were taking place in the 50s-70s, had agencies telling parents to make their kids as american as possible.
they were supposed to know nothing of the country that they were born in.
if you were raised in that type of environment, wouldn't you have questions that you want answered?
also, there are some pretty racist adoptive parents.
i know two girls who were adopted from korea, and both of them say that their white adoptive parents say some of the most racist things about blacks and hispanics...sometimes asians too.
food for thought. |
If adoptive parents are ignorant to the idea that there may be racism then they shouldn't be adoptive parents. That's not a good enough reason to deny EVERYONE the opportunity to have a home. I don't understand the logic in racists adopting children who are not the same race as them but hey, stranger things have happened.
As far as being different: la di da. No home or situation is perfect and everyone has their own cross to bear. If they can't deal with the fact that their parents aren't the same race as them and that *gasp* people may make ignorant comments, they should really reflect on their own lives and not project their situation onto thousands of other adoptees. |
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