I registered my account just so I could comment on this video. Good for you for making it. My family is one of those white families who want to overcome our guilt complex caused by slavery, and adopt a non white child. Thank God we never went through with it. We do have a very misguided belief that we are rescuing children from a very horrible situation and placing them in a better environment. But children need to have parents who look like them, think like them, and understand them.
I'm sorry you feel that way myungsook, i often wonder about that myself one day my niece and nephew will grow to hate me because i took them in and let them stay instead of saying it's wrong to let a 15 year old mother keep her own children. im so sorry. please forgive me. i had no idea babies grew up feeling this way. my niece and nephew are only 3 and 1. im sure someday i will have to come to that realization. but no matter what i will always love them. they mean the world to me.
exported for adoption? do you honestly believe that its wrong to grow up better than what could have happened to you or even my niece and nephew. then why are children here adopted? and can be adopted from the united states isnt the same? thats the samething.
Int adoption made me lost my culture, my language, my family, my country, my dignity.
I honestly believe it would have been better for me (and for my natural family) to grow up in my birth country than being exported to a predominantly white are where I lived in isolation sometime hating my slant eyes, sometime beliving I was white myself.
i think this video is vile...how dare you... do you even know a little bit about korea...or what goes on there...your a twit... my niece and nephew were adopted and they are happy...why dont you learn something...
I wanted to ask... had you been legally adopted to have this "better life" but were allowed to see and interact with your real family maybe once a year during school holidays or whatever arrangement was suitable, would this have made a difference? I would like to adopt in future, and I don't agree with completely cutting the family link of that child. You may be the career but you will never be their mother or father, so you have to leave that relationship intact in my book.
I would obviously have to find a mother with the same view, some mother just want a clean break. Which makes absolutely no sense to me. Cant cut your blood ties
Vile in your pea-brained tiny world. You're the one who has to open your eyes that there is more going on in the world than what you have experienced. You're the twit.
btw, I KNOW the poster and she was stolen at AGE 9.She KNOWS what she lost
Maybe in your next life it will be your turn to be stolen and sold to a foreign country, helpless to find your REAL grieving family, all to comfort people who only understand their own needs. Maybe that's what it will take for YOU to learn something.
you can pull my strings. how dare you say anything to me, you do not know anything about me or my family. Stolen do you mean adopted, the parent of my niece of nephew gave up her parental rights because she could not take care of them herself. Maybe you need to learn babies and children are left alone to cry and suffer, and people are willing to adopt them and give them a home, dont you dare say anything to me about learning, i've learned plenty.
what's with this daring business? of course I dare! I was adopted. I know a lot more about it than you do.
The OP was not relinquished. She was STOLEN. She has every right to be pissed that the adoption agency didn't care where they got their product from.
Just because you only know the bright side of adoption doesn't mean crimes aren't committed. They are more common than you know. But you're never going to look beyond your own nose.
Being denied your ethnic heritage is a painful experience. I love the analogies with the animals. A duck can't be a cat, and I can't be the daughter that is expected by my adopted parents.....
Kudos to you for speaking up and showing others how you feel. I'd love to see commercials made like this and have them run on tv stations every night. I'm so sick of the savior complex - as if adopting a baby is altruistic - it's not - it's a commercialized purchase to fill adult needs.
Harsh lives living in Korea... bad lives living in Korea...
White families are better than Koreans? Our culture is somehow better than Korea's?
My my, these comments sound like they're coming from racists, AP and PAP's, and other people who are just generally ignorant as far as how traumatic international adoptions can be.
I think you did a good job with this one. Because adoptees (especially international adoptees)have about as many rights in this country as a imported goods.
This comment has received too many negative votesshow
Isn't this a little over the top? Would you rather children rot in orphanages than live with a healthy, loving family? This sounds a little racist to me.
Don't you think this is a bit hyperbolic? Most of these children would have lived harsh lives as orphans in Korea. Having a chance to live with even a white family is a better alternative. It's sad but true.
I'm Ethiopian and I'm against international and interracial adoption.Thank you for this video!
Amhara1000 2 months ago 2
As a German orphan adopted by white American parents, I couldn't agree more with this video.
peterdodds1 2 months ago 2
I see! Far right wingers found some other propaganda tricks!
Peristerygr 4 months ago
I registered my account just so I could comment on this video. Good for you for making it. My family is one of those white families who want to overcome our guilt complex caused by slavery, and adopt a non white child. Thank God we never went through with it. We do have a very misguided belief that we are rescuing children from a very horrible situation and placing them in a better environment. But children need to have parents who look like them, think like them, and understand them.
internationaladvent 2 years ago 4
Asian children need Asian parents. Black children need black parents. White children need white parents.
internationaladvent 2 years ago 2
I'm sorry you feel that way myungsook, i often wonder about that myself one day my niece and nephew will grow to hate me because i took them in and let them stay instead of saying it's wrong to let a 15 year old mother keep her own children. im so sorry. please forgive me. i had no idea babies grew up feeling this way. my niece and nephew are only 3 and 1. im sure someday i will have to come to that realization. but no matter what i will always love them. they mean the world to me.
danibug92007 3 years ago
exported for adoption? do you honestly believe that its wrong to grow up better than what could have happened to you or even my niece and nephew. then why are children here adopted? and can be adopted from the united states isnt the same? thats the samething.
danibug92007 3 years ago
Int adoption made me lost my culture, my language, my family, my country, my dignity.
I honestly believe it would have been better for me (and for my natural family) to grow up in my birth country than being exported to a predominantly white are where I lived in isolation sometime hating my slant eyes, sometime beliving I was white myself.
I can't answer for your niece/nephew.
Nope, it's not the same thing.
myungsook777 3 years ago 2
i think this video is vile...how dare you... do you even know a little bit about korea...or what goes on there...your a twit... my niece and nephew were adopted and they are happy...why dont you learn something...
danibug92007 3 years ago
Yes, I know a little bit about Korea. I was born there and lived there. I have been exported to US for the purpose of adoption.
Good for you niece and nephew if they are happy.
I think you are vile too.
myungsook777 3 years ago 2
I wanted to ask... had you been legally adopted to have this "better life" but were allowed to see and interact with your real family maybe once a year during school holidays or whatever arrangement was suitable, would this have made a difference? I would like to adopt in future, and I don't agree with completely cutting the family link of that child. You may be the career but you will never be their mother or father, so you have to leave that relationship intact in my book.
queeniebee237 3 years ago
I would obviously have to find a mother with the same view, some mother just want a clean break. Which makes absolutely no sense to me. Cant cut your blood ties
queeniebee237 3 years ago
Vile in your pea-brained tiny world. You're the one who has to open your eyes that there is more going on in the world than what you have experienced. You're the twit.
btw, I KNOW the poster and she was stolen at AGE 9.She KNOWS what she lost
Maybe in your next life it will be your turn to be stolen and sold to a foreign country, helpless to find your REAL grieving family, all to comfort people who only understand their own needs. Maybe that's what it will take for YOU to learn something.
youcanpullmystrings 3 years ago
you can pull my strings. how dare you say anything to me, you do not know anything about me or my family. Stolen do you mean adopted, the parent of my niece of nephew gave up her parental rights because she could not take care of them herself. Maybe you need to learn babies and children are left alone to cry and suffer, and people are willing to adopt them and give them a home, dont you dare say anything to me about learning, i've learned plenty.
danibug92007 3 years ago
what's with this daring business? of course I dare! I was adopted. I know a lot more about it than you do.
The OP was not relinquished. She was STOLEN. She has every right to be pissed that the adoption agency didn't care where they got their product from.
Just because you only know the bright side of adoption doesn't mean crimes aren't committed. They are more common than you know. But you're never going to look beyond your own nose.
How dare you ASSume everyone should be grateful.
youcanpullmystrings 3 years ago
Being denied your ethnic heritage is a painful experience. I love the analogies with the animals. A duck can't be a cat, and I can't be the daughter that is expected by my adopted parents.....
trixieggrrl 3 years ago 4
Kudos to you for speaking up and showing others how you feel. I'd love to see commercials made like this and have them run on tv stations every night. I'm so sick of the savior complex - as if adopting a baby is altruistic - it's not - it's a commercialized purchase to fill adult needs.
etayesterday 3 years ago 7
How do we know what it feels like to be a Korean import unless we listen and learn? Clearly not everyone wants to do that.
jodihm 3 years ago 4
Harsh lives living in Korea... bad lives living in Korea...
White families are better than Koreans? Our culture is somehow better than Korea's?
My my, these comments sound like they're coming from racists, AP and PAP's, and other people who are just generally ignorant as far as how traumatic international adoptions can be.
I think you did a good job with this one. Because adoptees (especially international adoptees)have about as many rights in this country as a imported goods.
zipperwrist 3 years ago 9
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Isn't this a little over the top? Would you rather children rot in orphanages than live with a healthy, loving family? This sounds a little racist to me.
brueck99 3 years ago
Don't you think this is a bit hyperbolic? Most of these children would have lived harsh lives as orphans in Korea. Having a chance to live with even a white family is a better alternative. It's sad but true.
melonbarmonster 3 years ago