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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sentiments exactly, PP. 
Adopted girls not included???? WTF???? Number one, there are Chinese boys at the school who are adopted. too. Second, these children are native Chinese. Third, they're CHILDREN first, and adopted second. Haven't you ever heard of person-first language?? Do you refer to all children by their biological beginnings?? Jeez. How insensitive are you?????[/quote]

These reactions are knee jerk.  Nobody's being insenstive.  The girls (more than 90% of the children adopted from China are female), who outnumber bilingual kids at YY, are simply in their own category of kid.  2 obvious reasons for this.  They don't learn Chinese at home/aren't bilingual because, in almost every case, their parents are caucasian and haven't lived or worked in China.  So they aren't influenced by Chinese culture much more than non-Chinese kids.

My Chinese immigrant spouse is often approached by parents of girls adopted from China in our NW neighborhood.  He generally wants to hide when this happens because he's shy and doesn't feel a connection to these parents, or know what to say to them.  Generally, they're only experience in China was to pick up their baby or toddler.  When you talk to the YY teachers about the adoptees, they know exactly who they are and use specific, and respectful, Cantonese or Mandarin vocabulary to refer to them as a group.

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