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I think that the area you live in also needs to be a consideration. In our city, while there is a small segment of the population that is of hispanic origin, there are almost no African Americans. While doing our homestudy, our social worker made a big point of asking us to consider carefully where we wanted to adopt from and the potential for prejudice and how we would deal with it. (Yes, we could move, but this is where DH's job, my job at the time, and our family and friends are.) So DH's and my feelings on the subject were not the only consideration. While DH and I were open to adoption from any race, we were not as confident in our abiltity to deal with the prejudice the child would potentially face.

I also strongly disagree that it would be much easier to teach an African American child their culture then it would be with a foreign adoption. We make every effort to incorporate our Guatemalan children's culture into our home and fully intend to go back and visit the country when they are older. We do acknowledge the Guatemalan holidays, and eat Guatemalan foods, and have Guatemalan art and books throughout the house. I personally don't feel it is a level of difficulty issue, but a personal choice.