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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki
O_o!!!
Okay, when I get back from Taipei, it'll be survey time. And this is why acclimation is not the same as cultural relativism. Such responses are incredibly hard for me to believe, and the last one is so flabbergastingly ridiculous that I'm not sure if I'm more shocked than I am appalled. That it is an attitude that Japan is far too modern not to give up. If it wasn't so heartbreakingly narrow-minded, I might be tempted to laugh.
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I HOPE that Japanese mothers believe that only because the idea of adoption is so foreign. Every (America) adopting mother we talked to said they fell in love with their baby or child within moments (fathers took a little longer to come around, but usually within a few weeks). My fear is that the idea of "blood" is so ingrained that Japanese mothers really couldn't love an adopted child the same as a blood child.