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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Adoptees - should read "orphans"

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"real Chinese" parents[/quote]

you are a racist piece of shit. Take your nastiness and find a hate group on the web. you don't even know what you are saying. i hope no one is as hateful to you as you are being right now to these kids. [/quote]

No, no, I think what the (first) PP posted is actually true and shouldn't be treated so harshly.  This is my first time posting on this thread, but I've been following it.  I am an adoptive parent of a Chinese, SN daughter.  It is factually true that orphans, first of all, and SN children, secondly, are really looked down upon within Chinese society.  It is what it is.  First of all, they have no lineage, so they have that working against them.  Even their names give them away, because they are given names which denote them as orphans.  Secondly, they may have the death knell of being SN, which is a double slam.  It is just the way it is, culturally, no social net, etc.  I have no misconceptions that this is how my DD may/is(?) viewed by some "old school" Chinese folks, whether they be ABCs, people within China, people here within the Chinese school community, etc.  My DD is only 4.5 so I am still deciding whether to enroll her within Chinese school or not, but this is going to be a factor in our decision.  But I don't feel any animosity towards the native Chinese for feeling this way.  You can't really apply our Western impressions upon their society/background.  It's just totally different.  As for us and our family, we will just factor this in our decision.  But I can't "knock" any native Chinese or ABC for stating it like it is.  What can they do?  That's how it is.  I'm Irish; that would be like slamming the Irish for, I don't know, whatever people slam us for:  drinking, etc.  Yeah, what can i say?  A lot of Irish people drink.  A lot of Chinese are biased against orphans and SN.   My DD is both of those. What can I do about it?  Not much, except ensure that she only views it as an historical and cultural oddity, that has nothing emotionally to do with herself.   I think people on this thread who have been slamming the native Chinese and/or ABCs may have their hearts in the right place but may be barking up the wrong tree.  If we were to establish a school of English in, say, Saudi Arabia, would we be satisfied with a school that merely taught the semantics of the English language without imparting any US or Western values or history or culture at all?  This is the same thing that certain posters on this thread have been calling for/supporting on this thread as it relates to YY or other similar Chinese language schools.  [/quote]

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