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<blockquote data-quote="ThreeShadows" data-source="post: 288822" data-attributes="member: 6370"><p>This is a really interesting thread to me who was not raised in the US. In the 1950's I always chose to be the Indian when we French kids played "aux cowboys et Indiens". Every movie I had ever seen depicted the Indians as blood thirsty savages.</p><p>Then, in 1970 when my boyfriend was wooing, me he wrote me love letters quoting "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". MAJOR LIBERAL GUILT! So I married him. When I proudly showed a picture of my Franco-American dad's family to my Czech father in law (who tanned really dark) he sniffed derisively "I had no idea they were so Italianate!" Many years of infertility later, we adopted the twins who are part Italian (yeah!) and part Passamaquoddy (yeah!). When father in law asked me what their ethnic background was I was able to tell him. KARMA. He always accepted them.</p><p></p><p>The boys were so fair when they were babies that I was afraid they had given us the wrong ones and would be back years later to reclaim them. They darken up really well now. They are gorgeous.</p><p></p><p>My mother's family was very prejudiced against those who are not Caucasians and, even among whites, against the Russians for historical and political reasons. It is often a struggle for me to quiet the old messages.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ThreeShadows, post: 288822, member: 6370"] This is a really interesting thread to me who was not raised in the US. In the 1950's I always chose to be the Indian when we French kids played "aux cowboys et Indiens". Every movie I had ever seen depicted the Indians as blood thirsty savages. Then, in 1970 when my boyfriend was wooing, me he wrote me love letters quoting "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". MAJOR LIBERAL GUILT! So I married him. When I proudly showed a picture of my Franco-American dad's family to my Czech father in law (who tanned really dark) he sniffed derisively "I had no idea they were so Italianate!" Many years of infertility later, we adopted the twins who are part Italian (yeah!) and part Passamaquoddy (yeah!). When father in law asked me what their ethnic background was I was able to tell him. KARMA. He always accepted them. The boys were so fair when they were babies that I was afraid they had given us the wrong ones and would be back years later to reclaim them. They darken up really well now. They are gorgeous. My mother's family was very prejudiced against those who are not Caucasians and, even among whites, against the Russians for historical and political reasons. It is often a struggle for me to quiet the old messages. [/QUOTE]
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