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I hope you and your bio family have been giving yourselves grace. You are dealing with multiple challenges: language and cultural differences, geographical distance, pent-up emotions about the 20-year separation. I hope you all navigate through all that.

Everything is fake in China and the pressures are enormous. You will be bothered to marry, have a child. Marry the person the parents choose for you.

Don't feel pressured to learn chinese and be the perfect daughter for them. They can also learn english if it was as important to them as it was to you to make them happy and connect. Don't get me wrong learning Chinese will be invaluable but don't do it for your parents.

If you were adopted by Asian-American parents, how do you think your childhood would have been different?

Good God thanks

Thank you for sharing your story. My wife was the 2nd daughter to a family in central China in the late 80's. Her story is very different than yours, her family had the ability to bribe the local authorities so she was not aborted, but she still had a difficult life and was shunned by many in their community. Her dad, a great guy, made it his life goal to get both his daughters out of China. He still lives in China, but both his daughters live wonderful lives overseas (in the US and Canada).

Well done Katie . So cute as a little girl. Grown into a lovely beautiful lady .. Thank you for sharing may you grow as a woman prosper and inspire others. Please continue you make videos. ❤😊 2:14

What happened? How are you now?

Wow Kati a true true American raised Young lady loved . Biology parents Long Ong crying Long on actual tears.Gotta believe you appreciate your American parents via actual parents?????

Marry me Kati!❤

You are blessed to have such nice adoptive parents who raised you well You are lucky that you end up with them i

Holy, i remember seeing the doc on here. A couple months ago.

Regardless of the Q&A, I just want to give you a wholehearted compliment: You are so beautiful and charming!

Your adoptive parents are great, lucky girls.

Pick a Chinese movie or show with English subtitles that interest you

At the end of the video, I just saw where you are.

I have more respect to the American parents.

hello，Kati I'm a native Chinese from Wenzhou，Zhejiang Province. I really wish one day I cloud speak English as well as you did.

I know what your identity is. You are an American. Be grateful. If you want to throw your life away and move to China, go ahead. I bet you would not make 3 months over there. China is a cesspool nation. They can not suppress their hurry up and grab the money urge enough to even build a good bridge. They have concrete bridges less than a year old falling apart. The greed gene is rampant in China.

I would not recommend white people adopt outside their race as race is incredibly important to non-whites and the resentment will be crushing coming from someone you gave your all to as Kati’s parents and community did.

Hi Kati, thank you for this update. I absolutely loved the reunion video of you reuniting with your biological parents. It was so heartwarming to see them and how much love they had for you. I also could see the love between you and your sister. God bless you and all your future endeavors. You are such a lovely, bright and well spoken young woman.

Hi Katie. Your story went throughout the world up to Russia. It's even appear on my university exercise as a question.

Usually people learn a language well when they are in the country. If you couldn't learn Chinese in China then you may need to look at yourself and see what the problem is. It is not possible for you to be white. You are an Chinese American. Don't shy away from what you are. Be proud of being Chinese and if you go back to learn your language immerse yourself in the society and don't think about what people may think about you. Relax and enjoy life.

if i were you, i would disconnect with your born parents because china is a terrible country with awful people. you were given up and u should be very happy that you weren't given up in places like Mexico or any south American countries. you just be the best adopted kid to your ameircan parents and show appreciation how they gave you this life.

CHEERS and GOD BLESS !!!!!!! KEEP MOVING FORWARD AND DON'T LOOK BACK ~~~~~~~~~

Katie you are amazing! Such a sweet child and blessed with two great loving parents! And finding out you have a sister!! You are still young, plenty of time to catch up with your biological family ❤ they will never forgive themselves, but you have the bigger heart to tell them its ok ❤

Great video, fascinating, thank you for sharing!

wait wait wait wheres part 2

Hello ! I am. finding this video only 3years after you"be uploaded it. Anyways good to see you again. Last time I saw your video was you meeting your biological parents on the bridge in j Hangzou (check spelling) in China. It was very interesting video. Also to learn Chinese I think there are many apps in the playstore.

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with china economic /environmental collapse you are in a far better place

I’m sure you also face dialects Family dialects as well as boundary dialects , city dialects this can be a challenge but you can learn good luck beautiful story God bless you

Culture and language difficulties can be healed with love i am bilingual and the only way you will become fluent is to stay and speak daily 24/7 Or over FaceTime etc speaking daily it’s the only way you’ll hear and learn but you want to read and write by connecting the word visually with what you hear Language I love learning so don’t give up you must dive in and just learn

i am father one daughter

sucses and happy for you,i am from indonesia

Lucky girl,thanks to God

Came here after seeing a clip by a Chinese TH-camr. Gotta say she is raised well as an elegant lady and educator. Her adopted parents seem to be very kind and loving ones. I do not know what the reason of abandonment by her biological parents was, but wouldn’t be so harsh on them if one knows about China One Child Policy. For her bio parents, it would mean all kinds of punishment aside from financial which would have already bankrupted them, another choice was abortion, which they chose not to so she has a chance to live as fate brought her. It was the CCP hooligan policy that caused this and Kati’s is not the only victim. Hope Kati could continue to do well and loved, to love those who cherishes her

No part 2 or conclusion after more than 3 years. Hope everything is going well for you.

Kati, you will be right at home in Singapore. Here most local Chinese are comfortable with English and Mandarin. American and China cultures are well accepted. Singapore is a good East West bridge. By the way, your Gregorian calendar birth date is 19 Aug 1995 at 10am. (calculated from Lunar calendar birth date)

Hi Kati! I watched the BBC story on your family and then three years later after learning mandarin I rewatched the chinese version by BBC China. I thought it was pretty cool and wanted to share:) I come from a similar background and its not always easy navigating life especially as an adoptee. Also saw your linkedin and see that you found yourself in Prague. I stayed with a friend of mine there in 2019 loll. It would be cool to talk sometime if you have time!

She has the best of both worlds. Wish her and the two families well and link the bridge of humanity between West and East.

You should vlog with you bio parents. They are so cute to watch

For some reason I could not add comment to the story..I hope you know this person in story..this story made me remind of your story..it's important to help and support others..especially in today's world

There are many apps for instant chat, like Xunfei.

Great story. Really enjoy Katie's honesty and courage to embrace her journey.

Hi Kati, don't know if you still check comments here, and maybe your views on your own story have changed over time, but I'll still leave a few comments here based from what I got from your story in BBC and your video here. It seems like you grew up in a Christian home, and if you are a Christian yourself, it will be a very good opportunity to share the good news with your biological parents. I don't know if you can see their whole rationale in owing you the whole world by deserting you, but in traditional Chinese culture that also means that you are somehow free from the obligation of respecting and cherishing them as your parents (it's called 孝). They may feel guilty and afraid at the same time because they think you have all the right to treat them cruelly or coldly. The word translated as grace (恩) in Chinese culture is actually conditional. Assuring them you love them with the unconditional love of Christ will open their eyes to the gospel and God's love. It's also common for Chinese people who are deeply affected by Buddhism to think that they received their due punishment (not being able to raise you & not being close with you now) for something they did in the previous lives. They probably feel they deserve this suffering somehow. Sharing with them God's good and graciously will can be very powerful to free them from that cycle of blaming themselves and feeling guilty all the time. If you're a Christian, it would be helpful to find Chinese Christians to fellowship with and learn the language in that way too. No matter what, may the Lord bless you and keep you. Culture won't draw peoples of different races together, but the gospel will.

Kati, I'm a 1.5 generation Chinese American. I hope you're doing well!

You seem wise and mature (not sarcasm)

The barrage of CRT you've been hit with over the past decade is going to turn you into a deeply resentful person and will cause you to turn your back on everyone who has ever TRULY cared about you and send you down a cruel twisted path with no good destination.

What a beautiful place, and the children are so adorable!!! They did such a good job with their performance.