Meanwhile, as a mother, all I can do is enable them to own their birth and adopted heritage with pride.
"What we didn't expect was a refusal for us to even apply for adoption, not because of our incapability to adopt, but because our cultural heritage was defined as 'Indian/Pakistani.'".
Given the difficulties and ambiguities encountered in this study, it is clear that considerable further refinement of systems and standardisation will be required before multispectral and hyperspectral imaging can be widely adopted within the heritage science community.
People of mixed Japanese Micronesian heritage adopted Christianity in favour of Shinto and Buddhism.
Torn out of their own cultural milieus, they were expected to abandon their heritage and to adopt at least part of their enslavers' culture.
The reality about transracial adoption is that the child longs to be an integral part of the family and its culture, and Mia's desire to adopt her mother's cultural heritage is normal and understandable.
But unlike in America, where a mixed-race president describes himself as an African-American, South Africa's coloureds have tended to reject their African heritage, preferring to adopt the language, culture, religion and even family names of their former white persecutors.
In a statement, the South African presidency said that Mr. Zuma was trying to "decolonize the African mind post-liberation" and enable people to take pride in their heritage and not feel pressure to adopt customs of minority cultures.
The Iranian revolution, unlike, say, the French, did not adopt a year-zero approach: Iran is proud of its heritage as one of the cradles of civilisation.
Two case studies are used to illustrate the possible challenges that might be encountered in attempting to adopt local and holistic perspectives, and a broad interpretation of the heritage that lies in the local landscape.
