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纪录片wo ai ni mommy，一个八岁小女孩被领养到美国

看了这片子，很真实，那妈妈对孩子比较冷酷，也比较美国，很多到美国的华人，也经历了“被领养”的历程。

http://video.pbs.org/video/1578579830/

关于为什么美国白人喜欢领养中国女婴的英文论坛热贴

Chinese Baby Girls: White Hypocrisy Crystallized

I’m not dropping any bombshells on VNN readers by declaring that Whites are largely hypocrites on the issue of race. They frantically declare blacks their best friends, desperately pointing to Carl, the unobjectionable black guy from work who came along on the fishing trip two years ago, as proof of their racial goodwill, and while they’re at it, the absolute and unquestioned equality of all races on earth. But actions speak louder than words, and Whites’ actions fairly scream at lung-top. Social circles remain White, school and office cliques remain White, neighborhoods at least try to stay White, and spouses, unless you’re living in my Odin-forsaken gayborhood, remain White.

But there’s a particularly naked example of this racial hypocrisy ribboning across the land. In three words, Chinese baby girls.

Let me back up a bit. It’s well-known that for prospective White adoptive parents, White babies are priced like platinum: the demand is high and supply is low (most are either aborted or raised by the natural parents). By sharp contrast, few White parents have any interest in a precious bundle of future Central Park wilder. In Washington state, for instance, a couple can expect to pay $35,000 for a White baby — or $4,000 for a black baby. Nationwide, 40 percent of the available children are black, compared to an overall population of about 12 percent. In other words, not even (blacks) want (blacks). In San Francisco, with a population that’s a lower-than-national-average 8 percent black, 70 percent of the available children are black. In the words of one ultra-liberal (race unspecified, article implies White) San Francisco writer determined to adopt a (black baby):

“Of these children, the ones hardest to place are those with the darkest skin: Not only do many white couples prefer part-white children, many black couples - regardless of their skin tone - prefer to adopt light-skinned children as well. (On the Internet), Children are listed... with photos, biographies, and price tags attached - like used automobiles, except that the cost variation is largely based on color. A paraplegic Bulgarian tot with a cleft palate costs $30,000, whereas a mobile and dentally normal Chinese or Guatemalan urchin runs only $15,000. And black children? Absolutely nothing. Drop in and take a dozen. The Caribbean islands of Martinique, Grenada, and Barbados offer free black children to anyone who wants to fly there and pick them up. Regional markets duplicate this scenario. The price of the few Caucasians available is preposterously steep (up to $50,000), and the bidding is intensely competitive (only a third of would-be adoptive parents ever receive their white Baby X). Meanwhile, dark-skinned babies and children languish in hospitals and foster homes, often virtually free, but unwanted.”

But what’s missed in most accounts of modern adoption is just how far childless Whites will go to avoid adopting a (black baby). Here’s a hint: Halfway around the goddamn planet. ABC reporter and (black woman) Carole Simpson, after reporting on the tragedy of unwanted (black babies) in Chicago, was moved to adopt one herself. "There were 10 black babies available for every one white child available for adoption," Simpson told a reporter. So she decided to adopt 6-week-old Adam "to make a difference... We have people in the United States of America traveling to the far corners of the Earth, and there are black American babies in this country that need families."

And travel they do. Mostly to China, whose communist government in 1979 instituted the one-baby policy, which clashed with the feudal favoring of males when Baby No. 1 popped out female. The unwanted female babies were suffocated, drowned, or dropped off at the orphanage. Enter legions of liberal White American would-be parents, who were willing to endure global flights, customs, impenetrable foreign languages and laws and reams of paperwork, all for that little yellow prize: a calm, smooth-haired little Chinese baby girl, sure to grow up to be docile, respectful and good enough at math to land a scholarship at SUNY. Meanwhile, they could have tripped over their Birkenstocks and picked up a cheap black baby right here in the USA.

What say you, Volvo drivers? It’s easy enough to be racially ridiculous from a distance, but stick a squirming, (excreting), flesh-and-blood human being under their noses, and all but the most determined race-denying Whites come to Jesus. Because if black behavior is the result of “environment,” as they say, wouldn’t being raised in a loving White home turn a (black baby) into a strapping John McWhorter, enough to make Mr. and Mrs. White burst into uncontrollable grins of parental pride as he delivers a keynote address for a C-SPAN audience? Whites ain’t betting on it, whether they admit it or not.

From a Delaware paper: In 1997 Americans adopted 3,616 Chinese babies. In Delaware, Chinese adoptions outpaced those of Russian children 25 to 19, according to the six licensed agencies that did international adoptions that year in the First State. Many more Chinese babies, almost all girls, are coming. “We're sending about a group a month” to China, said Tara Miller, executive director of Adoptions from the Heart, the nonprofit adoption agency that sent Morrison, a 44-year-old unmarried woman, to China in October to pick up Emily. Delawareans are paying as much as $20,000 to bring home a child from China. By comparison, it can be fairly simple and inexpensive to adopt here at home.

All the while, of course, Mr. and Mrs. White style themselves magnanimous PBS spirit workers, surely worthy of an invite to dinner at Bill Moyers’ house, slaying the twin evils of racism and sexism with one bold adoption. Listen to this treacle from a freelance writer: “In the spring of 2000, my husband and I journeyed to a small town in southern China to meet our new daughter, a beautiful 13-month-old baby girl. On that momentous occasion, we joined the thousands of Americans who are part of a growing cross-cultural phenomenon in which East meets West in unprecedented ways. By adopting a little girl from China, we became part of a new configuration of family that crosses the divides of geography, race, language, economics, and even politics.”

But here’s the problem with this little Hallmark moment. The racial divide between Asians and Whites isn’t nearly as gaping as the one between blacks and Whites, as the piles of IQ data and other evidence demonstrate. The bottom line is that White babies aren’t available for adoption because the supply has been diminished either by Whites’ own avoidance of live birth or care of their own young, both of which are traceable, for better or for worse, to White hyper-responsibility.

Black babies are available by the (negro)-ton for the opposite reason: Blacks spit out offspring in high numbers because they’re simply not thinking about the future – it’s beyond their conceptual abilities. Nor do they have the capacity to embrace the future when it comes. The mini-simians are left to roam, unattended except by the White taxpayer-funded welfare system, which is inevitably blamed for the messes left. And Chinese baby girls fit somewhere between these extremes, their supply caused by something resembling a social system, however crude, and their demand ensured by desirable genetic traits.

So try this for fun, next time you see Mr. and Mrs. White out for a stroll with Emily Chang Wong Edwards. First, confirm that the child was adopted. Then ask, “Are you aware of the high numbers of black babies who go unadopted in America? Why did you make the choice you made?” Pretend to upset about discrimination against American blacks. If you encounter hostility, match it with feigned hostility toward their racism toward blacks. You may get a clever answer. Or you may make two White race-deniers uncomfortable. And that always makes my afternoon in the park.