, 2006) was additionally used to gather data on the adoptee's experience with birth and adoptive cultures. The scale was specifically designed to assess trans-racial adoptee's ethnic experience and is thus particularly suitable for our sample" (Tan 1502). .
This study focuses on girls adopted out of China because of the one child policy and the bias towards raising boys leaving girls to be put up for adoption. This study concluded, "that cultural socialization that encourages the adoptees to develop a strong sense of the ethnic pride can positively contribute to their self-esteem. Instilling in adopted children positive affect about being adopted might help reduce feelings of marginality and improve adoptee's self-esteem" (Tan 1507). Through my experience, and that of other adoptee friends of mine, a strong sense of ethnic pride is rare to come by in a white family. There are often racist remarks that are said without the family member realizing how it could be interpreted as racist, which then leads to feeling like an outcast, which flows back to thoughts of depression/suicide. .
The stories of many adoptees' emotional struggles often go unheard, and are often disregarded. In 2011 a documentary titled Somewhere Between was released and adoptees from around the world watched it as the stories of four teenage Chinese adoptees to find their roots is filmed. Somewhere Between is a wonderful example of adoptees and their stories of finding their identity. Knowlton uses these stories to show the world what a challenge it is to be a Chinese adoptee raised in the U.S. and to have a feeling of not knowing where they came from. A girl named Haley refers to herself as a "banana" in the terms she is "yellow" on the outside and "white" on the inside. Her thought is common among not just those adopted from China, but also in those adopted from all over Asia and raised in the U.
