Comments on: Culture and Adoption http://acceptancewithjoy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/culture-and-adoption/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:44:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Renae http://acceptancewithjoy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/culture-and-adoption/#comment-3774 Renae Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:13:15 +0000 http://acceptancewithjoy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/culture-and-adoption/#comment-3774 Thank you for this insightful look at culture. Mentioning the 1828 Dictionary usually gets my attention. :) Thank you for this insightful look at culture. Mentioning the 1828 Dictionary usually gets my attention. :)

]]> By: titus2woman http://acceptancewithjoy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/culture-and-adoption/#comment-3763 titus2woman Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:44:46 +0000 http://acceptancewithjoy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/culture-and-adoption/#comment-3763 I'm here visiting and have enjoyed your entire front page! Everything is pretty deep~I'm not even sure how to process all my thoughts at the moment, but OH how I want for us to join that living community together so we can sit and think and share together always!!!!! (((((HUGS))))) sandi I’m here visiting and have enjoyed your entire front page! Everything is pretty deep~I’m not even sure how to process all my thoughts at the moment, but OH how I want for us to join that living community together so we can sit and think and share together always!!!!! (((((HUGS))))) sandi

]]> By: John http://acceptancewithjoy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/culture-and-adoption/#comment-3755 John Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:58:46 +0000 http://acceptancewithjoy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/culture-and-adoption/#comment-3755 Since you appreciated *The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World*, you will enjoy anything by Neil Postman, especially *Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Television* (1984). Since you appreciated *The Vanishing Word: The Veneration of Visual Imagery in the Postmodern World*, you will enjoy anything by Neil Postman, especially *Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Television* (1984).

]]> By: Sally http://acceptancewithjoy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/culture-and-adoption/#comment-3748 Sally Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:08:33 +0000 http://acceptancewithjoy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/culture-and-adoption/#comment-3748 Hey there, Julie! Hope you had a nice Christmas. I'm finally getting around to reading blogs today. Hubby and kids went to church without me (nice, huh? :-P), so the house is quiet, with the exception of "Little Einsteins" on TV, which Bethany is (supposed to be) watching (she keeps wandering off). This was such a great post. Now come on, there has to be some adoption magazine out there that will print this as an article. You can write, girl! Get your name out there! :-) I suppose I should try to get cleaned up before the fam gets home. It's actually sunny over here today after all the rain we've been having. I should *probably* do some yard work. Ugh. Have a good day -- Sally Hey there, Julie! Hope you had a nice Christmas. I’m finally getting around to reading blogs today. Hubby and kids went to church without me (nice, huh? :-P ), so the house is quiet, with the exception of “Little Einsteins” on TV, which Bethany is (supposed to be) watching (she keeps wandering off).

This was such a great post. Now come on, there has to be some adoption magazine out there that will print this as an article. You can write, girl! Get your name out there! :-)

I suppose I should try to get cleaned up before the fam gets home. It’s actually sunny over here today after all the rain we’ve been having. I should *probably* do some yard work. Ugh.

Have a good day –

Sally

]]> By: Lori http://acceptancewithjoy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/culture-and-adoption/#comment-3739 Lori Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:58:53 +0000 http://acceptancewithjoy.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/culture-and-adoption/#comment-3739 Yes! Yes, and again, yes. Wish I could come up with something meaningful to say. What did your agency say when you answered them thusly? We were seriously afraid to be brutally honest with our agency about such things. Even if we were to make friends with Ethiopians and dabble in their culture (which I am not opposed to), the culture that they would absorb is OURS. I am not Ethiopian. I will not ever live in Ethiopia. I don't want to strangle whatever incipient Ethiopian culture they might have had but it is functionally impossible for me to raise these children as Ethiopians. Now I do show them pictures of Ethiopians (most recently, an article in Smithsonian magazine) and talk about Ethiopia and their first parents but I am also inculcating them into our family culture: Christian, homeschooling, and yes, European-American. Sigh. Oh, since I've already blogged in your comments space (sorry), just wanted you to know that I gave you a blog award over at my blog. I hope that won't be considered a tag, I just wanted to say, "Hey, you're cool.) Happy rest of the weekend! Lori Yes! Yes, and again, yes. Wish I could come up with something meaningful to say. What did your agency say when you answered them thusly? We were seriously afraid to be brutally honest with our agency about such things. Even if we were to make friends with Ethiopians and dabble in their culture (which I am not opposed to), the culture that they would absorb is OURS. I am not Ethiopian. I will not ever live in Ethiopia. I don’t want to strangle whatever incipient Ethiopian culture they might have had but it is functionally impossible for me to raise these children as Ethiopians.

Now I do show them pictures of Ethiopians (most recently, an article in Smithsonian magazine) and talk about Ethiopia and their first parents but I am also inculcating them into our family culture: Christian, homeschooling, and yes, European-American.

Sigh.

Oh, since I’ve already blogged in your comments space (sorry), just wanted you to know that I gave you a blog award over at my blog. I hope that won’t be considered a tag, I just wanted to say, “Hey, you’re cool.)

Happy rest of the weekend!
Lori

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