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Originally Posted by deepimpact2
I personally don't much care for white couples adopting Black children because I do feel that there are culture issues. But I feel that way in general. Prime example was one of my former students who was Navajo. She was adopted by a white woman when she was 3. She is now 19 and she knows absolutely NOTHING about Navajo traditions and culture. NOTHING. It broke my heart to see that because I felt that while she got a good home, she was still being robbed of the opportunity to explore her heritage. Her mother's excuse was that she didn't know anything about the Navajo culture and so she figured that the child would just be okay without knowing it.
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I would think a 19 year old could investigate the Navajo (or any other) culture on her own, if she so wanted to. So could a 12 year old with a computer, for that matter. She was hardly "robbed" of something she can go out and get. It's not the same as growing up with it, but growing up with it through books isn't the same either. What was the mother supposed to do? Send her to a reservation for the summer?
Like carnation said, sometimes the kids just flat out do not care. I was tested and found to be "gifted" and my mother often said that she worried that she hadn't exposed me to classical music, opera, "higher" culture, etc...the fact of the matter was, the few times they dragged the gifted class to things like that, we would have rather gone shopping or something.
Should you try to teach the kids about it? Yes, but there also comes a time where you need to stop blaming your parents (bio or adopted) and do what you need to do on your own.
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