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NBC NEWS

All-American, with one foot in China.

 

"The sheer numbers of children adopted from China in a short period has created a virtual cottage industry in support groups, culture and language courses and books. Families of adopted Chinese children are deluged by catalogues selling clothing with Chinese accents. It all signals a shift in philosophy in the adoption community — from one that presses for assimilation of their children to one that embraces a different culture."

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HUFFINGTON POST

An Ethnicity Conversation Your Adoptive Child Wants You to Have

 

"Despite the fact that adoptees may internally identify with the white culture of their adoptive parents, transnational, transracial adoptees still struggle to develop and assert their own self-identified ethnic identities because ethnicity is regularly associated with race. For transracial adoptees, there is often a severe discordance between the ethnic person they feel like and the ethnic person others want them to be.

NBC NEWS

In Search of Self, Chinese Adoptees Find Shifting Identities

 

"For many Chinese children adopted into American homes, ethnic identity is a construct in flux, one that is often subject to the push and pull of dueling cultures. This is especially true for the cohort of transracial Chinese adoptees who are now coming of age and are exploring their Chinese roots.

 

 

 

Who Am I Now?    Chinese Adoptees and Cultural Identity

Doryana X. Robins

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