Great post. Reading your post on the multiracial culture made me reflect on the multiracial individuals in family. It does appear that there is an increased acceptance of multiracial individuals. However, when it comes to adoptions of multiracial children or trans adoptions the issues I would imagine run a bit deeper and possibly more complex. The couple or individual adopting a multiracial child or transadoption is truly a beaufil spirted individual. Not only will they deal with the stares, questions, stigma and in some cases, being ostersied by the family, the child will most likely have questions and issues. There are a number of ways parents can help to culturally educated their bi-racial or transadopted child by introducing their culture
Numerous studies have been conducted on the need of cultural competency in the profession of speech-language pathology. To ensure correct diagnosis and appropriate services by speech-language pathologist, information and training should be made readily available. This paper examines the availability of culturally and linguistically diverse assessment and intervention information and training for speech-language pathologist.
Now there are some things to consider when it comes to adoption. One of these being that transracial adoptees do not always want to be adopted by people from a different race. Meaning that skin tone and ethnicity plays a factor in the adoption process. Many people question if placing an adoptee in the home of a different race family fits the need of the child, and in the long run that’s the main goal of adoption, fitting the needs of the child. This situation has become very common, and are not always bad. However, “Trans-racial adoption can have very good outcomes, but one issue keeps cropping up – and that’s a sense of loneliness and isolation, a sense of not belonging. Adoption is a new identity and when you get the added challenges of people
This process is not always so cut and dry. It can happen very quickly or last over a span of time. Transracial adoption can either help this process or can make it harder on a child. These children are being taken out of their culture, the only one they have ever known, and are thrown into something completely different. All these different views, values, and beliefs are pushed upon them.
Transracial adoption the identity debate, is an immense concern because it confuses the child that they don’t belong to neither side black nor white. Because they have white parents, but the children’s race is black so they are in a confused stage that could affect them physiologically. The black child will end up wishing they were also white like their parents and will make them confused and not have a high self-esteem. Transracial adoption tends to have conflicting results toward the
“Western generational models can not be applied broadly to a global workforce.” (Erickson, 2011, p. 1) The events that shaped the generations in the United States did not necessarily happen around the world. Other countries and cultures have had their own monolithic events to shape their beliefs and character. While events such as World War II did happen globally, not every country was involve in that war and did not have the same experience as say people in the United Kingdom and United States might have had. The potential exception to this rule is the proposed Generation Y and Millennials who have globally had access to the same information due to increasing availability of technology. In a recent email report
There’s various things that describes everyone, but there’s only a few things that make each and every one of us unique, which is, our cultural background. As far as cultural background, it defines the individual’s upbringing. The cultural background includes ones religion, race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic factors, linguistic and values. These values can be shaped by family, friends, society, or authoritative level. This paper is a great way for one to define my identity or at least understand who I am.
A child who is adopted is always a good thing, yet there are those who wish to return to the days of racial segregation when it comes to adoption. The “National Association of Black Social Workers, in 1972, likened whites adopting black children to ‘cultural genocide’” (Clemetson & Nixon, 2006, para 16), which is a completely racist view of how White people would poorly raise a Black child based solely on skin color. Their stance on interracial adoptions has changed somewhat in the last 40 years. The wording has been softened to a more politically palatable and sustainable “transracial adoption of an African American child should only be considered after documented evidence of unsuccessful same race placements has been reviewed and supported
Multicultural psychology is "the systematic study of all aspects of human behavior as it occurs in settings where people of different cultural backgrounds encounter each other. Multiculturalism has been considered a "fourth force" in the field of psychology, supplementing behaviorism, psychodynamic theories, and humanistic psychology. It explores such topics as differences in worldviews and in means of communication; the acculturation process; stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination and racism; cultural identity development; and building multicultural competence" (Fhagen-Smith, 2010). Multicultural psychology attempts "to understand and to accurately represent the psychology
Some people believe that love is not enough when it comes to adopting a child. The only fact that should be taken into consideration is what is best for the child. However, there are some researchers who believe that the children culture should be taken into consideration. Growing up in a culturally diverse home that offers children books, music and artwork that represent the child's race will create an identity for the child that is positive and that will also seek to expand racial awareness for the entire family. When a child has created an identity for herself by being taught about where she comes from, it opens her up to be accepting of different ethnic backgrounds and races. This is how the child can become open to learning about other ethnic backgrounds and cultures (Beamer, 1974). This is statement made by the adoption researchers after trying to decide what is best for a child to stay in foster care or allow them to adopted transracially. The outcomes in most cases are positive because the child grows up with a diverse mind set they will able to mend a blend with more than one group of people. This also shows that love and support will better raise a child than race. Society says do not allow transracial adopting because the child will lose sense of who they are, but people who have been transracially adopted believe this was the best thing that could have happened to
Anthropologists have always had their discrepancies with the word culture and its background significance. There have been numerous definitions that have filtered through the field, yet not one that everyone can accept or agree with. Franz Boas, an anthropologist in the early 20th Century, and his students, had a difficult time figuring out the objective of what culture is. Culture is about learning and shared ideas about behaviour. Although Boas and his students had a slightly different idea in mind. They ultimately reached a conclusion, a definition of culture in their view that is a contradiction in terms. Boas sates that, “ culture was expressed through the medium of language but was not reducible to it;
In this paper the author will examine and assess the culture concerns and influences in today’s society along with the mixed culture as it directly relates to the effect it has on the criminal justice system. The author will address how does the concerns of the culture effect justice and security administration and practices, contemporary methods used in societies with mixed cultures, how do these influences relate and affect nondiscrimination practices, and if the famous criminal justice historian Sir Robert Peels nine principles to organize a police department were presented today would these methods and theories work.
I never thought that adopting a child from a different race would create a social dilemma for the children especially here in the U.S. I am planning to adopt children someday and I tried to look at on a couple of website for adopting a kids and I had no preference or whatsoever I was just looking at who was available in my area and I never thought that having an intention of just giving these children a better life is not enough to have them have a good life because if you are Asian and you adopt a black person and you don’t know the culture from the black community that person you adopt would feel lost and confused
A personal testimony from a transracial adoptee named Katherine Quarmby expressed that, “My loss of ethnic heritage has been more than compensated for in the multitude of opportunities afforded by my adoption” (Quarmby). Those who believe that transracial and intercultural adoption is right trust that the child would be able to not only learn and take part in their own culture, but also learn and take part in all cultures. This gives the child an advantage because they would be able be presented with more opportunities and be able to relate to multiple types of people instead of just one. Because of the larger understanding of many different cultures the child will be able to have a fuller and well-rounded
1. Culture is perceived as a way of thinking that influences the behaviors of a group of people.
With the statistics being what they are pertaining to children who need to be adopted one would think that we should be more lenient when it comes to homosexual or interracial adoption. However, they do not take into consideration the emotional toll it has on the adoptive child. Many people argue that the homosexual group is being greatly overlooked as somewhere to seek adoptive parents, but what they don’t tell you is how negatively the child is affected when they grow up in a homosexual family. Studies have proven that a child who does not have both a mother and father figure present is bound to be emotionally and mentally deprived. Interracial adoption has become more popular in the past years because of international adoption. However, in the US the issue of transracial adoption still caused controversy in 2010. A few groups asserted that embraced kids should be raised by guardians of their own race. They shielded this perspective by saying that guardians needed to make their kids mindful of their own race to create in them faculties of self-identity. Different groups guaranteed that race did not make a difference in abortion cases, for they felt as long as kids had adoring guardians, race was insignificant. While it is beneficial to have loving parents whatever their race, the first group seemed to understand that it is more difficult to raise a child of a