When you get to know people for the very first time they usually ask for your name, age and family. But for me the later is a bit complicated to answer, sometimes they want another answer like where's you're family from ?
That's also a complicated question because I'm an adoptee which means I have the same citizenship as my adoptive parents. Which is way I suppose some people thinks I'm lying when I say I'm Swedish.
Foreigners or mostly immigrants doesn't understand what adoption means and I've tried to explain it but I have very little pacience when it comes to this. Trying to explain something that goes against someone's religion or ubringing usually means trouble.
I have a Swedish adoptive family with one mum and one dad and a younger sibling. But I also have another family: my Korean birth family which consists of one mother and one father, several daughters and sons.
© Taste Of Kimchi, Elle
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