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My observation is that we are not the only family in this situation. My kid isn't a white kid growing up in a predominantly white city or suburb surrounded by white culture. She does not see whiteness everywhere. As an adult with broader experience I know that this will change, but as a small child who knows she's different than most of her neighbors and friends, she doesn't know that yet. All she knows is that she is different from the other kids in a way that sometimes feels uncomfortable and isolating.[/quote]

Look, even in the most prosperous suburbs in this area, there is no such thing as "predominantly white suburb surrounded by white culture."  My oldest is in AAP in an affluent NOVA suburb.  Two thirds of his classmates are brown.  Academically, East Asians and Indians are crushing "traditional white" students.  So this white-dominated environment just doesn't exist anymore, even in the suburbs.  I grant you that the landscape of white-brown relationships in the suburban schools here is different than the white-black relationships in DC schools.  But the all-white environment is just no longer there. [/quote]

PP here and it might not exist in the DMV but it absolutely still exists.

But the point is really that while my child does not experience racism (and I get this), she does experience being a racial minority and outsider and that has an impact on her, and it's something I have to account for as a parent. I just took issue with the PP who makes it sound like parents of white kids never even have to consider these issues when of course in certain circumstances we do.[/quote]

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