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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki
I will do so, as that is very much surprising. I don't see what business it is of anyone else's where my child was born, but that's the fierce multicultural egalitarian in me, I suppose. I would say American or Western, but I have met too many Americans in specific, and Westerners in general, that have the same attitude.
I have family members that have adopted and I once was present in a situation where my cousin was showing off a child she had adopted from Laos, I think, and some woman exclaimed, "Oh my she's so cute, almost like a real child."
Moron. :|
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There are idiots everywhere, to be sure, but it seems like this attitude about adoption is more...culturally institutionalized in Japan.
When I asked Japanese people if they would ever adopt a non-blood related child, 100% said no. Even if the child was Japanese? No. What if you couldn't have children? Then I would enjoy playing with nieces and nephews. The answers were so universal, that's why I think it is somehow ingrained in the Japanese culture. The idea of a non-blood person living in the home seemed too much. "You could never love an adopted child the same way as a blood child" was a phrase I heard from more than one Japanese mother.