If a baby from one race is adopted by a family of a different race what is the baby?

Question

I already asked this question but no one really got it (sorry if I offended, I didn't mean to) so I rephrased it to be more neutral.

If someone asked the kid what race were they, what would they say?

It's a nature versus nurture question, I guess. I know society only seems to care about what colour the kids skin is but when someone adopts a kid they raise them their way and are supposed to take them entirely into their own family.

I also don't think different races raise kids very different it just.

Wait! I just remebered what I learned in Anthropology class. Race is visible but menas nothing, ethnicity is raised. So I guess they'd be the same race and the adopted ethnicity.

wow, i'm getting some great answers this time, thanks everyone!

Answer 1

The race they look like, duh. Race is a biological concept (not really but everyone thinks it is). You may fit in to a cultural group different than what your "race" typically fits into but if someone sees you they're going to classify you by your appearance. And then they're going to comment how you don't "act" your race.

Answer 2

Your question Is a very good question.
Knowing a persons Race could help with Medical
problems susceptible to that Race.
In the Black race there is a chance of:
High Blood Pressure
Sickle Cell Anemia
Keloids - from scars
People of dark skin Colors can get them to, like Italians
There is a disease that can also be in the Jewish Race.

All Important Forms ask your Race.
I would think the Adoptive Parents are told the Race
of the Child. It helps with Identification for now, and later
If the Grown Child wants to find their Parents, Family,
or get a Pass Port to travel. They will need to know their
Race.
Who the Child is raised by does not change, or make
the Race of the Child.

Answer 3

Your question Is an particularly stable question. understanding a persons' Race could desire to help with scientific issues in hazard of that Race. in the Black race there is an hazard of: severe blood rigidity Sickle cellular Anemia Keloids - from scars human beings of dark pores and skin colorings can get them to, like Italians there's a ailment which could additionally be in the Jewish Race. All significant varieties ask your Race. i could think of the Adoptive father and mom are advised the Race of the youngster. It helps with id for now, and later If the Grown toddler needs to discover their father and mom, family contributors, or get a pass Port to trip. they're going to could desire to be responsive to their Race. Who the youngster is raised by utilising would not replace, or make the Race of the youngster.

Answer 4

They'd be the race they were born with. It is important for parents in mixed-race adoptions to make a point of not only making that child a part of their family, but also making sure they know and appreciate their own heritage as well.

Answer 5

I have a real good friend who is a white Baptist missionary. He and his wife adopted a black infant girl from a country they were serving in many, many years ago. The girl grew up in a completely white family as a member of this family. I know her personally, she is a beautifully sweet person. She wanted to go to a mostly black school when she was about 16. It did not work out well, it was very rough for her. She transfered. She eventually married a nice young white man. Today she has a family and lives with her husband and children-happy. Her parents (adopted) are not racist, but she has few black friends. I feel fortunate to be one of them. She lives, acts, and talks white-but she is black. Unusual-yes. A model human being-absolutely.

Answer 6

Your race is your race, no matter how you were raised, and you should embrace that part of you. Your cultural upbringing might be different. I don't know why it's so politicaly incorrect to talk about race. My sister has 3 kids who are half black and now her husband is Hispanic. She tries to pretend the kids are Mexican and it makes me so mad! How are they going to feel when they grow up and realize she was ashamed of their ethnicity? People need to pull their heads out of their behinds and take people for what they are.

Answer 7

An adopted human baby. If they don't know the race of their biological parents, then they probably would say the race of their adopted parents. Even if they did know, they still might say the race of their adopted parents. But my answer is still the same, HUMAN!

Answer 8

If I adopted a child of another race, I would expect to love that child as an individual.This child would be nurtured, be told, be able to interact with those of the race, nationality ,heritage that he/she came from.It would make that childs life easier as they grow up. and also help them to feel less confused about themselves. Color, obviously is what it is..
Other than that it 's all about love..

p.s. I apologize for answer on other page....

Answer 9

I believe you have asked your question with a good heart...We adopted our son back in 1965 when people were afraid to adopt the drug babies of the sixties.

L.A. County Board of Adoptions told us:
His mother was white, Jewish, 3 spoon a day cocaine habit, a prostitute. His father was black, Catholic, a heroine addict, and her pimp.

My son is mixed racial, Episcopalian (by his own choice), one of the curators at LACMA, and his own man (meaning he doesn't do drugs).

The truth is so simple he has always just been himself ~~~and still growing, even at 41 yrs old.

Answer 10

The same as it was before the adoption.