Once you're in it, you can't get out.
(A) you either start promoting, lobbying or believing in the abolishment of adoption.
(B) you can only relate to other adoptees or even same ethnicity adoptees which means you either married a fellow adoptee or have nothing but adopted friends.
(C) you don't believe establishment of adoption is a neccessarilly good thing yet you havn't ruled out adoption yourself.
(D) you're pretty well intergrated into your adoptive country (society, culture), you don't have a big interest in adoption, reunion and/or birth family search. You're adopted, but you identify the most with your new culture. You're friends and partner are all of that culture (which in my case would mean 100 % Swedish).
It's about time that adoption gets its rightful media coverage because its nothing else than a Western concept. I like to state that I'm not resentful to either of my families, but the process of achiving an almost equal coexistance hasn't been easy. Respect is a word that comes to mind.
And I don't neccessarilly like to label people so this entry should be seen as an attempt to identify different values found among adoptees not to place this and that person in one of these sections.
© Taste of Kimchi, Elle
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