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01-20-2008, 02:22 AM

When it all comes down to it, you`re picking and choosing a nationality for your baby. NOT a culture. NOT a race (although by default a Japanese child would be Asian, you`re not willing to settle for an Asian baby. You want a Japanese baby.)

In other words - You`re picking a nationality because you think that nationality is cool.

You seem to be totally missing the fact that nationality and location of birth have pretty much NOTHING to do with how the child turns out. The culture you grow up in is what makes the difference. If you want your child to turn out well, and work hard as a parent... Race, nationality, etc will not matter. And to go the other way, if you`re an awful parent it won`t fix your mistakes either.
If you don`t want your children to pick up the perceived flaws of your home culture, the only way to prevent it would be to remove yourself from said culture. Unless you plan on keeping your child locked up in the house 24/7 with no exposure to other people or even to television and other cultural medias... The child WILL be part of your home culture. Deal with it. It doesn`t make a speck of difference what country they were from. Once you`re their parent, your home culture is their home culture. You can change your in-home culture in any way you like, and incorporate Japanese ideals into it. But you will NEVER be able to change outside culture and peer pressure - so your child will always end up as part of your "home" culture.

I could really care less if you want to have a racially diverse family. But that isn`t what you`re saying. You are saying you want Japanese children for a very specific purpose - to send them to Japan to learn about a culture they very well might have no interest in at all. Not because you want a diverse family - because you want them to do something YOU think would be cool. In reality, children with Japanese blood who were raised outside Japan have the most problems if they come to Japan. They usually take the longest to learn the language, and experience the most stress in daily life. Everyone who I`ve met in that situation ended up wanting nothing more than to leave within a month or two. But of course, your children would be perfect right? Do wonderfully in school, grow up 100% Japanese in spite of not being exposed to the culture, and have these magical genetic powers of language acquisition...? Ha!

To be totally honest, I`m not at all concerned that you`ll actually realize this "plan". No adoption agency in it`s right mind would approve you. You don`t want a child, you want a idealistic proxy. I`m more concerned that you really think this is a viable option. That it`s alright to obtain a child in order to "live through them". You seem to have some serious issues with your own race and culture that you DEFINITELY need to work out before you even give any thought to having a child of your own.


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