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The children are the hope for our future. They’re very intelligent complex creatures. My niece was adopted as an infant from China. My SIL and her husband have taken her to Mandarin classes, different Chinese festivals and classes to embrace her birth heritage.
When she was 4 or 5 the summer Olympics were held in China. She shrieked with delight “Mommy, mommy look at all those girls that look like me!” When the gymnastics portion was broadcast, my niece exclaimed with the utmost certainty “The girls that look like me are much better at this than the rest, why do they even try?” and decided she was going to be a gymnast (her current goal is to be a Jedi Knight, what can I say, her parents are geeks).
SIL lives in Chicago and specifically sought out a culturally diverse nursery school. My niece prefers to play with the other little girls that “look like her”. Is this wrong? She is not unkind to the other children, she just prefers to socialize with other Asian girls (boys, other than her brother and cousins are “icky”).
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I've been married for 24 years and have four wonderful children.
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