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I feel myself being TOO PC. I grew up in a largely hispanic area and cultural sensitivity was not followed. (For a time I answered to "Greenga") Yet, here in predominately white SW Portland I'm desperately trying to raise my kids with cultural sensitivity and currently feel as though I'm failing to teach my children the complexities that come with race.

Clearly, my children do not think that other races are beneath them. For example with black men, they think that every black man they see can play sports (Tiger), or is running for president (Obama), or sings (LL Cool J). Somewhere along the line I feel as though they also need to learn that they are no different than us - but with some historic handicaps.

Is this different than other generations? Yes and no.

My adopted children are hispanic and my mother, for the first month that they were with us, fed them only bean, rice and quesadillas. I wonder if my mother's stereotyping of race will be no different than my children's stereotype -- If we see another race as having one predominent characteristic, it does not seem to me that we are really removing racism.

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