cultural removal
joanne recommended i look at compassion international about my cultural removal concerns. Kinda randomly, I found an article of one guy telling why they decided to adopt internationally. He said that he really believed that it was important to keep kids in their culture and to help them there. hence the existence of so many sponsorship programs. and yet there are some kids that need to be "rescued." that are at risk for being sold into prostitution or are abandoned (he adopted a baby girl from china). this made sense to me. a lot of sense.
but as i'm writing it up i still wonder if it wouldn't be better to some how figure a way to get them into a foster/adoptive home there in their country. and even as i write that i'm not quite positive why it's so important to stay in the culture you were born into. I realize that it's tied up in your identity, but why is having two cultures bad? someone educate me.
posted by Sarah at 5/19/2006 11:19:00 AM
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I am not sure why it is so important. I need to be educated also. There must be some really good reasons or people wouldn't care so much.
Well, if you adopt the kid young and bring him/her into our culture, then they don't really have two cultures. They just have one-- but they do have a race and a heritage that is elsewhere that someday, they may long to discover.
Daughter from Danang: American Experience (2002) This is a good documnentary about a girl who was adopted and then brought to the states and then some years later goes back to meet her original fmaily. It is very interesting to see how the two cultures mix. You can Netflix it.
In the long run, couldn't it conceivably be more effective and less difficult to take the $100,000 dollars or so that it would take to raise the 2 kids and donate it to a reputable organization that works in their home country?
that is the real question. i need to look into that more. I'm hoping to be able to talk with some families in our area that have adopted from Liberia and see if they thought about that.
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