Foreigners who adopted and brought home Chinese children have also celebrated China's Spring Festival, or the Chinse Lunar New Year, to allow the children to experience what other children in China are experiencing during the event.

For most of the families that adopted Chinese children, like the Hughes from Vancouver, Canada, major Chinese holidays such as the Lunar New Year are good opportunities to have their two adopted Chinese children have a taste of the culture they would have grown up with had they remained in China.

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Together with the other members of the British Columbia chapter of Families With Children from China, the Hughes celebrated Lunar New Year with a lunch and parade in Vancouver, reports CBC.

Sharon Hughes, the adoptive mother, herself an immigrant to Canada from England, believes it is their responsibility to ensure that their kids experience at least these cultural events since they took them out of China.

"I want them to have a sense of who they are as Chinese Canadians," said Hughes, who also acknowledges the reality that since the kids had been uprooted from their land of birth, these second generation mixed culture kids would later celebrate their heritage in different ways.

For those in Richmond, there were Lunar New Year happenings at the Miaohui Temple, Aberdeen Centre, Landsdowne Centre, Richmond Centre and Parker Place Mall such as fireworks, performances, martial art exhibition, red envelope distribution, lunch and lion dance.

Lunar New Year, celebrated February 19 in 2015, is also observed overseas. In many countries, there are Chinatown villages for the Chinese immigrants who may have adopted another nation and citizenship but will always remain a Chinese at heart.

While it may true for the elder Chinese, the younger generation who grew up in other lands often only identify with China because of their physical features such as the chinky eyes, black hair and Chinese-sounding surnames, but most often, their cultural identity is the land they grew up, not the land where their parents or grandparents came from.

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