Politics and the Wide World
As it turned out, Chinese-American adoption was an idea whose time had come. Following on the precedent that Sarah's benefactors had established was a growing tide of adoptions. Sarah was the first of 100,000 Chinese babies who have come to America, and the vast majority have been satisfying, joyous experiences for their adoptive families. Everyone knows a neighbor or a cousin with an adorable, docile Asian child. Chinese babies don't cry or fuss or keep their parents up at night, and they grow to be excellent students in school. There is some truth to the stereotypes.
China is changing and its economy growing at an eye-popping rate. China is steadily supplanting the US as the 21st Century Superpower. This is a dangerous situation, and our American government has not been above stoking xenophobia to justify war with foreign rivals. 100,000 lovely young women are a counterforce to prejudice and stereotypes. Well-connected and well-beloved, in every American burb, they are emissaries for a human connection bridging divergent cultures, ambassadors for a peaceful future.
I have no cause for taking pride from my role in this development, but I can feel it as a gift beyond anything I have known how to ask for.
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