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| Me: on being adopted. I was adopted by my aunt when I was two months old. My "real" family is my mother, father, two brothers, and sister who all live in the Philippines. As many of you know, the philippines is "lovely" 3rd world country... It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Having four children in a place like that is asking for more money problems then you probably already have...not very smart. Also at the time, I was "sick" or so I've heard. America... the land of "oportunity", the land where the streets are paved with gold! The land where you will be oppressed indirectly... the education system here is a thousand times better then the most expensive, most exclusive private school there. Public schools are nothing. Private school are equal to our public schools. Healthcare and any oportunity is much better here. Believe me, I've been back to the Philippines several times. My aunt adopted me, I guess b/c I was the youngest and wasn't too attached to my parents yet... Answers to frequently asked questions: yes, i have gone back, yes i have met my family, why was i adopted: duh... read what I just typed!! Whenever I have met my family in the past, I said I love you to them. Do I actually "love" these people? Think about that for a second... You are adopted and do not actually get to meet these people until you are about four or five years old. You are very attached to you parents that you have been living with. Then you take an 18 hour plane ride back to your "homecountry" and meet your parents. Your adopted mother tells you to say I love you. You meet them, they seem nice. They say they love you and act like you had never left. You meet your brothers and sister for the first time. Who are these people? How can they say they love you? You don't know them. They don't know you. I may say I love them... but do I? How can I? I don't know them. Don't tell me it's sad, because it's not. I was raised here, in America. I was raised almost as a "white" girl. I have had so many oprtunities that my siblings will never have. I love my adopted parents. I have been with them for my whole life. They are the only "parents" i know. You don't have to be blood to be family. Me: On not attending school on the last day I find this absolutly ridiculous. What is the big deal about not going to school on the last day? You don't do anything on the last day but sign yearbooks and hang out with friends. Why not go? Why not spend another four hours in school? It's not gonna hurt you. Me: On racism(different then beliefs): Racism is so stupid. How can anyone hate or treat another person differently for their appearance? I wonder if racist people understand that you cannot choose what you look like, etc.You cannot choose what you look like and what your skin color is. You can't choose what your background is. To hate someone for being African American or being Latin is tottaly ignorant. In my opinion, I imagine that numerous minorities would, if they could, become white. They would change thier skin color and become white. One, because, no offence, but in America, whits have normally an easier life. There is less discrimination. Less challenges. Less things to worry about. No matter how terrible it sounds, it's true. I "went out" with a guy for two months. We actually didn't offically go out but were together. We could not go out offically because his parents are highly racist. Something that could have been great wasn't because someone didn't like the color of my skin and my ethnic background. They did not even know me as a person, never said a word to me, but they didn't like me. They didn't want me interacting with their son either. Racism does nothing but show someone's ignorance. |