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tfunk
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Gibberish
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| Awesome video, thanks. |
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Murakano
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:25 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for posting this link.....very interesting story |
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PigeonFart
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| very good |
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Tundra_Creature
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:49 am Post subject: |
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| Very facinating and those are some wonderful pictures. |
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Cerberus
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fascinating. Thank you.
I couldn't believe how Caucasian she looked despite being half Korean.
btw - was it just me or did anyone else catch her speaking at the very end of the video and you could definitely detect the hint of an accent?
(typically 12 tends to be the dividing line) |
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.38 Special
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Location: Pennsylvania
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| Cerberus wrote: |
fascinating. Thank you.
I couldn't believe how Caucasian she looked despite being half Korean.
btw - was it just me or did anyone else catch her speaking at the very end of the video and you could definitely detect the hint of an accent?
(typically 12 tends to be the dividing line) |
Yeah, certainly an accent. Cool video 
It's a shame how difficult adoption is today, everywhere.  |
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tacitus14
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah that came out about 4 years ago. |
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Cerberus
Joined: 29 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:37 am Post subject: |
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btw.. my "perception" prior to seeing this video was that in the large majority of interracial offspring, the dominant genes predominate.
(and Caucasian genes like light hair, blue/green eyes, etc) are recessive genes, almost always dominated by dark hair, dark eyes, etc.
with this girl it was completely different. I was very very surprised.
don't most Ameri-asians, etc tend to look more Asian than Caucasian?
(and in the case of blacks, those genes tend to dominate?)
my very very sketchy biology/genetics memory tells me the odds of such a girl having light hair or light eyes would be 25% (I would've thoght even less). Having both, I'd say the odds are probably around 10%. |
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peppermint
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Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| Cerberus wrote: |
fascinating. Thank you.
I couldn't believe how Caucasian she looked despite being half Korean.
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Not all that odd. I went to school with two half Chinese girls who had red hair and green eyes. Unless you knew their last name was Hong, you'd never guess. |
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thoreau
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a shame how difficult adoption is today, everywhere. :? |
I'm thankful it is. Not everyone has honorable intentions. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a shame how difficult adoption is today, everywhere. |
I'm thankful it is. Not everyone has honorable intentions. |
Yeah its a fine line. On the one hand you want as many kids out there to enjoy the same privileges and opportunities that you did, on the other hand you really are thankful that your parents were thoroughly vetted so as to prevent any nefarious characters from cropping up. |
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.38 Special
Joined: 08 Jul 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| thoreau wrote: |
| .38 Special wrote: |
| It's a shame how difficult adoption is today, everywhere. |
I'm thankful it is. Not everyone has honorable intentions. |
Yeah its a fine line. On the one hand you want as many kids out there to enjoy the same privileges and opportunities that you did, on the other hand you really are thankful that your parents were thoroughly vetted so as to prevent any nefarious characters from cropping up. |
I reject the idea that wealth determines morality. In many cases, that is precisely the case.
When freeing a child from institutionalization and giving him/her a family costs upward of twenty thousand dollars... something is wrong.
Corporatizing adoption is a massive mistake, in my opinion.  |
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southernman
Joined: 15 Jan 2010
Location: On the mainland again
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| Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| .38 Special wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
| thoreau wrote: |
| .38 Special wrote: |
| It's a shame how difficult adoption is today, everywhere. |
I'm thankful it is. Not everyone has honorable intentions. |
Yeah its a fine line. On the one hand you want as many kids out there to enjoy the same privileges and opportunities that you did, on the other hand you really are thankful that your parents were thoroughly vetted so as to prevent any nefarious characters from cropping up. |
I reject the idea that wealth determines morality. In many cases, that is precisely the case.
When freeing a child from institutionalization and giving him/her a family costs upward of twenty thousand dollars... something is wrong.
Corporatizing adoption is a massive mistake, in my opinion. |
I'm deskwarming all day so its good to have a feel good story to distract me from the boredom
I used to work for the Govt, my Govt (not the USA Govt) as a social worker, mainly working with the high end teenage offenders but also some care and protection work, Investigating child abuse, neglect, safety isssues etc that were deemed in need of urgent attention
Where do you get the $20 000 figure and what makes you think you have to be wealthy, maybe its about the money in the States?.
But thats definitley not the case in other countries, because frankly there are not enough people willing to adopt. You do not have to be wealthy. You basically have to be an average caring person who can provide safety, love and stabilty in the childs life. You are vetted heavily for the safety of the child obviously,
To say that adoption is difficult is true but it has to be its also time consuming. But if you are a suitable person you can adopt, the vetting is stringent as it needs to be, but if you're a kosher person, then its not an outragious process. Thats what adoptive parent's have told me anyway.. but i'm sure people who have been turned down will have other opinions on the process
Money really isn't one of the major priorities, but then again it may well be in the States as everything seems to be money based not morals based  |
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mc_jc
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The first thing I saw immediately following the presentation- which was truly exceptional- was this question at the very top of the comment section;
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| What made him think this girl needed to be "rescued" from her own home, and her own blood relative? Very odd. |
Obviously the person has very little knowledge about the social stigmatism that was prevalent in Korean society in those days.
I can say, without a doubt, that Korea has come a long way to recognizing interracial children, even compared to just 13 years ago. |
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