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...your child's native holidays and celebrations, and incorporate some of these into your family traditions. Keep up with major current events and sporting events from your child's native culture. (Korean-American adoptees say they felt lucky having two teams to root for in the recent World Cup soccer matches...
...Mariko Ferronato was 3 years old, she would regularly quiz her mother about which half of her was white and which was Japanese. "I thought there was a physical line that divided the Japanese me from the Caucasian me," says Ferronato, now 18 and a high school senior. A soccer goalie who plays the violin and has her eye on pre-med studies, Ferronato says her racial identity developed in stages. At her mostly white elementary school, she considered herself a white person "who happened to eat a lot of sticky rice." But in the ninth grade at her diverse...
...single mother Janecleide Batista, 24, lost her job as a telephone operator when her company was sold to a foreign firm. Now she lives in a squatters' shack on a small vacant lot with eight other families. To her, free-market reforms mean that Brazil's World Cup-champion soccer team "gets free new cars, while we sit here on the street and get nothing." The Bush bailouts may buy time, but they may not be enough to prop up faith in the capitalist road to prosperity. --With reporting by Sol Biderman/Sao Paulo and Matthew Cooper and Massimo Calabresi/Washington
...Milbrett still thinks there's more to do, and she is famously incapable of anything but blunt honesty. WUSA has lived off the soccer-mom set, but Milbrett says the league has to market to a broader fan base: "League-wide we need to figure it out better. It's not just about little girls and their families. We need to have marketing for the general public. I know that's very expensive, but it has to be done...
...international irrelevance, yet they were viewed in Britain as a triumph. Never mind that England’s true national stadium in London remains an abandoned construction site as myriad committees blame each other for the project’s stagnation. The F.A. Cup, England’s main soccer competition, is forced to hold its final in a hastily converted rugby stadium—in Wales. (It is as if the Super Bowl always had to take place in the Skydome in Toronto.) But in a culture where mediocrity is expected—if not quite glorified?...