Comments on: Emergency Code Whitey http://american-family.org/2006/09/01/emergency-code-whitey/ Tue, 22 May 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: American Family » That was fun. http://american-family.org/2006/09/01/emergency-code-whitey/comment-page-2/#comment-64762 American Family » That was fun. Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:20:14 +0000 http://american-family.org/2006/09/01/emergency-code-whitey/#comment-64762 [...] Rather than somewhat crazy rantings, I am just going to pretend that those bizarro comments in the last post really meant to ask me this: American Family, you write a lot about trying to integrate Chinese and Asian American culture into you daughter’s life, but I don’t think you’ve ever written anything about your own cultural background and how you share it with M.  I would be interested in hearing more about that.  Is there anything you would care to share with us? [...] [...] Rather than somewhat crazy rantings, I am just going to pretend that those bizarro comments in the last post really meant to ask me this: American Family, you write a lot about trying to integrate Chinese and Asian American culture into you daughter’s life, but I don’t think you’ve ever written anything about your own cultural background and how you share it with M.  I would be interested in hearing more about that.  Is there anything you would care to share with us? [...]

]]> By: this woman’s work - » All access (subtitled: Explode the Code) http://american-family.org/2006/09/01/emergency-code-whitey/comment-page-2/#comment-3352 this woman’s work - » All access (subtitled: Explode the Code) Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:38:49 +0000 http://american-family.org/2006/09/01/emergency-code-whitey/#comment-3352 [...] What she’s talking about are the levels of adoption loss — the loss of a biological connection and then the loss of a cultural connection. If we adopt transracially/transculturally, our children become biracial/bicultural regardless of their biological roots. Both Twice the Rice and A Birth Project wrote about this recently (click the links). (American Family also just wrote about this in her infamous and hilarious Emergency Code Whitey entry.) [...] [...] What she’s talking about are the levels of adoption loss — the loss of a biological connection and then the loss of a cultural connection. If we adopt transracially/transculturally, our children become biracial/bicultural regardless of their biological roots. Both Twice the Rice and A Birth Project wrote about this recently (click the links). (American Family also just wrote about this in her infamous and hilarious Emergency Code Whitey entry.) [...]

]]> By: Exploding Aardvark » TODAY’S BLOGQUOTE http://american-family.org/2006/09/01/emergency-code-whitey/comment-page-2/#comment-3211 Exploding Aardvark » TODAY’S BLOGQUOTE Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:25:07 +0000 http://american-family.org/2006/09/01/emergency-code-whitey/#comment-3211 [...] Emergency Code Whitey (American Family) [...] [...] Emergency Code Whitey (American Family) [...]

]]> By: Sue G http://american-family.org/2006/09/01/emergency-code-whitey/comment-page-2/#comment-3210 Sue G Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:06:07 +0000 http://american-family.org/2006/09/01/emergency-code-whitey/#comment-3210 Omg this is so funny. After I first got "in touch" with the existence of racism and white supremecy, I went through a period of trying to reclaim my own ethnic roots, which had been "whitewashed" over the generations and subsumed into our monolithic white culture. I had about five or six ethnicities to choose from, and those were only the most prominant influences. That was the first problem. Picking one or another seemed so self-serving. Then the second was that no generations anywhere near me were influenced particularly by any of their cultures. The third problem was that it didn't help me to get to know myself any better. What helps me know myself better is to try to take a look at the water in which I swim, white culture, which is easier to do if I listen to the observations of people of color around me. Nondefensively. Not easy but gets easier with practice and a little technique I call Not Taking Everything Personally. Omg this is so funny.

After I first got “in touch” with the existence of racism and white supremecy, I went through a period of trying to reclaim my own ethnic roots, which had been “whitewashed” over the generations and subsumed into our monolithic white culture. I had about five or six ethnicities to choose from, and those were only the most prominant influences. That was the first problem. Picking one or another seemed so self-serving. Then the second was that no generations anywhere near me were influenced particularly by any of their cultures. The third problem was that it didn’t help me to get to know myself any better.

What helps me know myself better is to try to take a look at the water in which I swim, white culture, which is easier to do if I listen to the observations of people of color around me. Nondefensively. Not easy but gets easier with practice and a little technique I call Not Taking Everything Personally.

]]> By: lavalady http://american-family.org/2006/09/01/emergency-code-whitey/comment-page-2/#comment-3114 lavalady Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:58:54 +0000 http://american-family.org/2006/09/01/emergency-code-whitey/#comment-3114 <i>The burden of teaching M to whisper when she mentions racism or people of color falls on my sorely inadequate shoulders. </i> This made me laugh so hard! My poor 3/4 white children don't yet do this, I must be raising them up all wrong.... The burden of teaching M to whisper when she mentions racism or people of color falls on my sorely inadequate shoulders.

This made me laugh so hard! My poor 3/4 white children don’t yet do this, I must be raising them up all wrong….

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