Word: trippingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After flying into Budapest, they will have to drive at least six hours to Belgrade, though it is likely that the trip will take have been bombed. When they get to the border there is also a chance that Stokes, an American, will be denied entrance to the country...
...also revamped the training process for trip leaders...
...same color as you?" Her heart stopped. Then Katz, who is white, explained to her cinnamon-skinned, Guatemalan-born daughter that they came from different countries. Over the years, Katz and her husband Gary Richards have consciously worked to minimize the distance between themselves and their daughter: taking a trip to Mexico to surround Lena, now eight, with people who look like her and choosing to live in a polyglot Manhattan neighborhood where she blends in easily. Nonetheless, Lena sometimes seems to reject her dark skin, crying over her inability to match her parents. But recently she's begun...
Despite such efforts to create a comforting environment, a trip to the supermarket or McDonald's can be fraught with insensitive public behavior. People stare, children taunt, strangers ask rude questions. To be constantly asked, "Are you just the baby-sitter?" or "Do they look like their father?" can be trying, say those who have endured such questioning. "Some days I want to scream out...'Leave us alone. My life is none of your business!'" rages Chicago drama teacher Jennifer Viets in The Coffee Man and the Milk Maid, a monologue about being the white mother of three biracial children...
...born children is to include the customs, language and history of their birth land as part of the family tradition. While Katz waited to be allowed to take Lena home, she toured the girl's native village and took pictures to show her later. Families might also plan a trip to the child's birth country--or take advantage of summer camps sprouting up for multiracial families, at which kids are given the chance to learn more about their culture and experience life as a majority. "It's a very emotional experience," says Gail Walton, director of one such camp...