Houston
chapter of Families with Children from China (FCC) hosts author and
adoptive parent, Virginia Cornue, PhD speaking in honor of National
Adoption Month on:
Friday, Nov. 14, 7:00 p.m. at Borders Books in Meyerland Plaza, Houston
Last
year, Cornue’s daughter was stopped in the hall of her middle school by
a classmate pulling his eyes into slants and asking, "Do you see in
wide vision?" "No" was her snappy comeback, "Do you see in stupid
vision?"
While that retort stopped the bullying for the moment, it is
just a small example of some of the ignorant and hurtful things
children adopted from China hear all over the country: they see the
eye-pulling thing, the nose flattening thing, they hear the ching-chong
mockery of the musicality of Mandarin. They are rudely asked, “Where
are you from?” and “Why didn't your parents want you?”
Houston FCC parents are hosting Dr. Virginia Cornue, a Research Associate in the Anthropology Department at Rutgers University in New Jersey and author of the book The Dragon’s Daughters Return, for a book signing and a talk entitled "What's Your Problem? Do You See in Stupid Vision?" Her presentation will teach parents anti-bullying advocacy skills they can teach their daughters as well as demonstrate The Dragon’s Daughters Return as a teaching tool for cross cultural understanding and a means to combat bullying about adoption.
Saturday, November 15
Dr.
Cornue is also presenting Saturday, November 15, 9:15 a.m. at the 88th
National Council for the Social Studies at the George R. Brown's
Convention Center.
Her presentation to the council, China's Global Encompassment: The Future Is Right Now
reflects the theme of this year's council highlighting globalization,
the future of social studies and connecting kids to the global here and
now.
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