[ SECRET POST #2370 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2370 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How much contact should adopted PoC children have with the culture of their birth?

[(Anonymous)]

for a group like the Ivyatim/Cahuilla who have a population of 800 and are desperately trying to keep their cultural traditions alive, it's a real issue.
I agree that would be an issue but then the people within that culture should keep and the raise the children. If they're not going to do that, of course someone else should adopt the children.

Re: How much contact should adopted PoC children have with the culture of their birth?

[(Anonymous)]

MTE. It's a peculiar thing when political/cultural considerations take precedence over the needs of a child. If you can care for them and are willing to, then great - problem solved. But if you don't have the wherewithal to do so, I really object to denying the children a good home because they aren't the 'right' race/culture.

Re: How much contact should adopted PoC children have with the culture of their birth?

[(Anonymous)]

The fact that a completely different culture gets to judge whether or not an entire race of people with different values, customs, social structures, and living environment, are able to provide for their children or not, is where things get sketchy. Which is exactly what happened to the First Peoples here on Turtle Island. The same would apply to that tribe of 800 I'm willing to wager. At that small a size, the community should be able to sustain itself admirably, provided they haven't lost the cultural knowledge to do so, the way First Nations did, because of the residential schools/forced baptisms/assimilation. (Google "Truth and Reconciliation Commission.")

Re: How much contact should adopted PoC children have with the culture of their birth?

[(Anonymous)]

At that small a size, the community should be able to sustain itself admirably, provided they haven't lost the cultural knowledge to do so,

I'm curious, what if they HAVE lost the cultural knowledge to do so? Then what? I find these cultural discussions interesting, and yet they appear to be fraught with peril, too, because they inevitably seem to be set up as competitions - not alternatives, but competitions, where one is a winner and one a loser.

It's also a bit of a sticky wicket for me because I personally believe that girls should be raised to be self-determining, to have their own agencies. I am aware that other cultures may place a higher value on religious obedience, and believe the woman needs to be subservient in order to preserve social harmony, etc. Both sides may hold strongly held opinions here - but am I automatically diminishing another culture's value because I believe women shouldn't be subservient? Like I said, sticky wicket.

In any case, I hope that we can all agree that children shouldn't be dying of neglect. If there's a family that can provide for them, then it should, and the other considerations can remain important, but I would hope that the child's health and welfare should be primary importance.