My latest obssession is House. The episode I had been watching involved an Asian American woman traveling back to China to find her birth parents. Upon finding them, she is instantly rejected leading the medical team to hypothesize that she was born after the one-child policy was implemented in China. Her parents had alledgedly tried to kill her by pushing needles into her brain, which had stayed and eventually caused her alcholism and subsequent health problems.
Not only did this episode further convince me that I will one day adopt a baby girl from China; it had relevant parallels to assimilation within American culture and trying to get back to one's roots.
There was a particular scene where the patient and one of the Dr's, Kutner (an American-Indian man), bond over their similar situations, both abandoned and later adopted by white families. Which got me thinking about how American families handle situations where they adopt children of other ethnicities. Do they fully assimilate the child into American culture and traditions or do they make sure to keep their original culture relevant? And how will this affect the child in the future?
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