http://miamei.com Growing up and parenting bi-cultural children Mon, 20 May 2013 21:00:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 miamei/xllthttp://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/miamei/xllt/~3/LPPvwEfuKPs/ http://miamei.com/2013/05/20/ideas-raise-kids-bi-culture/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 21:00:53 +0000 Guest Blogger http://miamei.com/?p=829 There is one specific word to describe those Asian kids raised in western culture: BANANA. It is a person with yellow skin but has a white-person’s heart. BANANA is not a good word; sometimes it’s kind of rude. I don’t like it and I don’t like to simply categorize people by some simple codes. 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