Merci beaucoup.
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In my family, my mother and my father's mother were both adopted out to other than Indian families. They were adopted into a different racial and cultural milieu. My great grandparents and great great grandparents were 'removed', under the order of the federal Indian Removal Program, from what later became the Indiana/Illinois states to Indian Territory, later to become Oklahoma; this was done because of who and what they were, they were Indian.
Now, in my generation, I am being asked what I prefer to be called? We are all human, we just come in different colors, shapes, sizes, cultures, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds. While I am not, like my ancestors, being 'removed', why am I being asked the question? Does a Caucasian person want to be asked, in the course of a traffic stop, if they are Irish, English, Polish, Lithuanian or German? Clearly, for Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, American and Eastern Indians there are noticeable differences than Caucasians; why haven't we progressed to just being human?
There are many academic and anecdotal studies of historical trauma. It is something that is real, palpable and far reaching.
http://www.mcgill.ca/files/resilience/Whitbeck_2004.pdf
http://uni-leipzig.de/~sozio/mitarb...g_09_Kansteiner_Finding_Meaning_in_Memory.pdf
http://hpp.sagepub.com/content/7/3/312
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en... studies of historical trauma in jews&f=false
http://www.academia.edu/343766/Holocaust._Trauma_its_transmission_and_connection_with_identity