Going Back to My Homeland to Find Out Who I Am

America has the highest adoption rate for children of any nation around the world. In 2004, they adopted close to 23,000 children from other countries and in the last ten years around 1500 children born in Taiwan have been adopted and made the journey to America - Jiang Ruo-hua from Taiwan is one such child. Jiang Ruo-hua grew up in an American family and received a Western education, and as such is just like any other American child. This year on summer vacation Jiang Ruo-hua journeyed back to her homeland for the first time in all of her twenty-one years. Studying Chinese as a second language is no easy feat for Ruo-hua, however she believes understanding the language is a wonderful opportunity to reawaken her Chinese heritage and is determined to face this challenge head on and not to give up.

Going Back to My Homeland to Find Out Who I Am (By CJ Joyu)

URL: http://www.peopo.org/news/63878

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遇見家鄉 尋找我是誰 (公民記者 Joyu報導)

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美國是全世界收養兒童數目最高的國家。2004年，美國就收養了將近兩萬三千位來自其他國家的兒童，十年來，有將近一千五百位的台灣小孩離開家鄉、來到了美國。蔣若華是其中一位被領養的台灣小孩。從小在白人家庭裡長大的蔣若華，接受的自然也是西方教育，和一般的美國小孩已經沒有分別。今年暑假蔣若華二十年來第一次回到了她的出生地，台灣。學習中文對蔣若華而言是個挑戰，但是她不會輕易放棄，認識自己出生背景的機會。

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