When we adopted our daughter in China, we were respectful of the people and many of them were very nice, more interested in surviving day to day (through their capitalist family business’ I will add!) then either their government or politics. They were happy they were allowed to follow religion again, and we found a Catholic church. Then you had your governmental types that ran the show, had to ok your adoption and collect your “donations” and they were quite secretive. We went on tours and things like that and like I said I found the common people quite nice and the tours on the Chinese Dynasty’s interesting. Even visiting monks at
a Buddhist temple was nice. But when for the second day in a row Americans that adopted with us wanted to go on another Mao love tour, my husband and I finally said no. We said to our guide that we just wanted to rest, use the hotels playroom to bond with our new daughter and hang around near the hotel. It was some of the American families that didn’t understand this. Mao was great they said, brought “culture” and unified the people, blah, blah, blah. I gave them a quick history lesson. I don’t think they believed me so I suggested some books when they got
home. One had the nerve to say “without Mao we probably wouldn’t be getting our daughters”. So I said of course I love my little girl, but was it worth millions of people dieing, a one child policy so that these poor children became orphans, so that you could have a baby? I don’t know my daughters background, and I know I can provide a loving home for her. But I have always wondered why her birth mother had to give her up. She may have loved her very much but circumstances and poverty in China made her have to give up her daughter. I was not going on another tour to honor a man arguably worse then Hitler.
Near certainty she was given up only because she was a girl, not a boy.
But I never see the Western feminists complaining about that. I wonder why?
God bless you and you daughter. And Mao was an ignorant beast.