{"id":767,"date":"2011-07-12T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=767"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:08:45","slug":"culture-for-international-adoptees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/07\/12\/culture-for-international-adoptees\/","title":{"rendered":"“Culture” for International Adoptees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. families have adopted tens of thousands of children from other countries in the last decades (many of whom are sitting in our college courses).<\/p>\n

International adoption is a great topic for a class or lesson on race and culture because, for international adoptees and their families, race, ethnicity and culture often do not line up neatly.<\/p>\n

We recommend the Culture Review “Culture Goes to Camp” <\/a>by Lori Delale-O’Connor in the Winter 2011 issue of Contexts <\/em>to get a conversation going in your classroom about ethnicity and culture–and the challenges international adoptees may face with merging the two in their own identities.<\/p>\n

To use this article in class, have students search the web and read up on culture camps like the ones discussed in the article and address these questions:<\/p>\n

1) What types of activities are advertised on the websites? Put yourself in an adopted child’s shoes. How do you think a child would experience these “cultural” activities?<\/p>\n

2) Imagine you adopted a child from another culture. Do you think that you would encourage activities like a culture camp? How important do you imagine it would it be to you to have your child “stay connected to his\/her roots”? Why?<\/p>\n

3) What culture do you identify most with? Is the culture of your ancestors important to you or present in your life? Did your parents encourage you to learn about it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http:\/\/www.culturecamp.net\/<\/p>\n

http:\/\/kccmn.org\/<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.adoptivefamilies.com\/calendar.php?cal=camp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. families have adopted tens of thousands of children from other countries in the last decades (many of whom are sitting in our college courses). International adoption is a great topic for a class or lesson on race and culture because, for international adoptees and their families, race, ethnicity and culture often do not line […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403],"tags":[1298,15,14],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","tag-adoption","tag-culture","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}