The Good Kind Of Immigrants Summary

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JaeRan Kim, in her essay “The Good Kind of Immigrants”, explains how difficult is it to be an adoptee in Minnesota by telling her own story. The author describes how she forgets her homeland gradually, “kimchi” for example, the food “that once felt like home now unfamiliar…” (122). Mrs. Kim provides the truth of adoption project, the U.S government’s real purpose of child adoption and what it means to say “raising a child is symbolic” (123). She shows how the government treats the orphans, giving them jobs and shelters, giving them the feeling like “…were being adopted or fostered” (125), but these orphans will lose their origins as a cost of having a new life. The author then writes about “Transracial and Transnational Adoption” including