Children Interracially Adopted Loose The Opportunity To Learn About Their Herita

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Term Paper Title	Children Interracially Adopted Loose The Opportunity To Learn About Their Herita
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Children interracially adopted loose the opportunity to learn about their heritage.  Heritage, what is it and how important is it?  Can children adopted by people of a different race other than their own learn about their own heritage?  Is heritage more important than adoption?  Is a child better served staying in foster care with those of his own race or being adopted by those outside his race?  These are some of the questions I will explore in this report.  I will compare a same race adopted adult with an interracially adopted adult.
First let’s explore what heritage is.  Is it the kind of hair you have or the color of your skin?  As defined by the American Heritage Dictionary, in 1983 edition, heritage is: “Something passed down from proceeding generations; tradition.”  Heritage includes your culture that your ancestors associated with.  It includes traditions of the land where your ancestors came from; this could be language, foods, dances, customs, religion and many others.  Some people take great pride in where they came from and others do not care.  How important heritage is to a person depends of the individual.  The more you learn about your own heritage, the more enlightened you are to others.  Some families celebrate their heritage by cooking certain types of food, with recipes handed down from generation to generation.  Others celebrate holidays differently or not at all.
America is known as the “melting pot,” where people of different backgrounds live together.  People with different background marry and start their own traditions. These differences are not visible, but skin color and hair texture are visible. In Ivor Gaber’s article, He writes how a Christian single mum adopted an olive skinned Muslim, because both are black. Their heritage is different but the skin color is the same. Does this make a child learn his/her heritage from its parents? My point is that heritage is not skin color.

In a predominately white community, a black person may feel inferior to a white person.  This happens because of the skin tone difference, not because of a person’s heritage.  The feeling of inferiority occurs because the person has far less people to associate their difference with.  People tend not to recognize differences as positive.  This is proved in most high schools.  To prove this statement I have to provide the background information. If  the popular trend is to wear your shirt with one sleeve cut off., and everyone came to school with one ...

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