Interracial Adoption

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you are to others. Some families celebrate their heritage by cooking certain types of food, with recipes handed down from generation to generation. Others celebrate holidays differently or not at all.
America is known as the “melting pot,” where people of different backgrounds live together. People with different background marry and start their own traditions. These differences are not visible, but skin color and hair texture are visible. In Ivor Gaber’s article, He writes how a Christian single mum adopted an olive skinned Muslim, because both are black. Their heritage is different but the skin color is the same. Does this make a child learn his/her heritage from its parents? My point is that heritage is not skin color.
In a predominately white community, a black person may feel inferior to a white person. This happens because of the skin tone difference, not because of a person’s heritage. The feeling of inferiority occurs because the person has far less people to ...

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An occurs and the child has to deal with the difference in skin tone. The child must then identify all difference as positive. A child can have a hard time dealing with the differences, but a family’s love can help them. Being placed into a secure and loving home is more important to the child growing up, than if the parents are the same color as them. The child can not learn about his/ her own heritage from their parents. The child has to watch movies, or read historical resources, to learn about the differences in heritage. The parents can influence the child to do so by positively encouraging them to acknowledge their heritage.
Historically, it was not until the 1960’s ...

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