Adoptee from China celebrates her bat mitzvah

[Taualumna]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

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It's in the City/Region section and there's a small milestone involved with the opening of adoption from China. On one hand I agree with you, but on the other Confirmation parties are hardly as entertaining as some of the Bat Mitzvahs I've seen. Particularly the ones that reach a "My Super Sweet 16" status. I've never see a Confirmation party be more than a back yard barbecue or small catered thing for family/friends.

OK, let's change it slightly. Say Cecelia was adopted by a Mexican-American family and she was celebrating her quinceanera (I know this isn't a religious celebration per se, but often girls are blessed by their priests at Mass). Would it have made the the city/regional section of the paper? Would she have made the news as a debutante? I could see a profile of her for the latter, but not an entire article.

She's a Chinese girl adopted by a lesbian Jewish couple. It's a multicultural trifecta.

Yea!

One of her moms used to be Catholic. Makes it even more multicultural!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by Taualumna

OK, let's change it slightly. Say Cecelia was adopted by a Mexican-American family and she was celebrating her quinceanera (I know this isn't a religious celebration per se, but often girls are blessed by their priests at Mass). Would it have made the the city/regional section of the paper? Would she have made the news as a debutante? I could see a profile of her for the latter, but not an entire article.



One of her moms used to be Catholic. Makes it even more multicultural!

I would suspect a Chinese adoptee's quincearana would make the same level of news coverage. Probably not in NYC because I don't think that quincearana's are big there. But I'm not sure about that. I'm not really sure what your point is here. That it's only in the news because it's Jewish? That it's only in the NYT because it's Jewish? That NYC has a fairly large concentrated population of Jewish people?

I do highly suspect that the lesbian/Jewish/Chinese thing has something to do with it, but half of "local interest" stories require the reporters hearing about something and saying "Hey wouldn't it be neat to write a story about X"