Wo Ai Ni Mommy: One American Family's Adoption Story

Director of Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy Stephanie Wang-Breal speaks at the Asia Society about her documentary film, which follows an American family to Guangzhou, China to adopt a child. Subjects of the film Donna and Faith Sadowsky, mother and daughter, join the discussion, interviewed by La Frances Hui

For more info: http://asiasociety.org/arts-culture/film/guangzhou-long-island-one-eight-year...

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Film & Animation

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• asia society
• Adoption
• China
• Guangzhou
• Documentary
• Wo Ai Ni Mommy
• Wo
• Ai
• Ni
• (I
• Love
• You)
• Mommy
• Stephenie Wang-Breal
• Donna Sadowsky
• Faith Sadowsky
• Asia

[theeReddVision]

Such good parents!!! I would love for all interracial adoptive parents to be like that mom... Except to be a little less hard with the cards, aha:)

[lethel4444]

sorry this lady teaching is a bitch; how about if someone taught her Chinese in the same direct, flashcard, boring ass way all by yourself being taught by your stepmom; hell get somoelse to teach her; parents lack patience and objectivity usually

[GoldenShellback1]

Faith is a very smart girl. I can see another Lucy Lu in the making. My favorite Chinese actress.

[bluemonolith88]

@CAFREEB then again, she would've been better off in china with loving chinese parents. adopted kids like her typically face huge identity issues and must put up with discrimination and glass ceilings in the West. if you're not already doing it, you should raise her as a chinese-american who knows chinese language and culture almost as well as american language and culture, especially important because china will likely be the next superpower when the kid reaches her middle age.

[AJChow66]

@lisababy4lyfe It's exactly this train of thought that I complained about. It's pretentious. When you adopt a child, you're taking someone who isn't exactly rightfully yours into your home, regardless of the circumstances. When you say that everyone deserves a family, this is where cultural differences become clear. I have nothing against adopting, but one must consider all points of views and possibilities first.

[lisababy4lyfe]

@AJChow66 How is adopting a child robbing them? When you adopt, you're adopting the child to help give them a better life & to give them a chance of having a family. Every child deserves to have a family... When I'm older, I want to adopt. Also, the family is making her culture her #1 priority but they're not the type to constanty push her about it.

[guitaristhebaka]

Watched the documentary yesterday and i was pretty sad when she did not know how to communicate with her guang zhou family in mandarin and her dialect anymore after about a year. she spoke so fluently in the beginning but had difficulty doing so at the end.

[lucamansan]

Some people criticize the mother, she has a very strong personality, but I think the girl will grow up to be smart, successful and confident.

[lethel4444]

I think a culture is a combination of an innate and learned behavior from birth through childhood;

It's primarily a way of thinking; it's conforming to the society around you; you can't re-learn a culture and then say - you ARE that; She isn't Chinese anymore. I can say that. I've been to China. The attitude,thinking behavior is just not something you just learn. No one's culture can be learned as an outsider. YOu can 'observe' it. YOU= the environment you were in before birth and growingup.

[lethel4444]

she seems to do this from a strong ego as opposed to a soft heart