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I think that some people do have legitimate reasons for considering some nationalities and not others. I am white. I know when I was trying to get pregnant through artificial insemination I would not look at anything by cc donors because I didn't think my family would be accepting of a different race. If they would not accept a different race was it fair of me to bring that child into the family - for the child's sake. I know that some people won't pick a certain race because they live in an area where there is a very low population of that particular race. Is it fair to bring a child into an area will they will have nobody there that looks like them? I know that some people don't pick a certain culture because they have no interest in learning about that culture and believe that it is their responsibility to teach their child of the culture that they were born into. I know for me the hispanic culture would have worked because I love it, I knew Russia would work because most of my family is from Russia, and I knew Africa would work because I live in an area with a large population, I knew the Asian cultures had not fascinated me in the ways that other cultures did. I had 9 years of infertility and adoption tribulation so it gave me an opportunity to educate my family on those things that would allow me to create my family. Just last week I was matched with a little girl from Ethiopia and she should be home sometime in August. Not willing to adopt certain nationalities may be a sign of bigotry but it may also be that these parents have thought through the process and decided that certain things just would not work for them.

Samantha