My daughter is half Caucasian, one quarter Hispanic, and one quarter Philippine. We adopted her at birth. Her birthfather is pasty white guy, while her birthmother is an exotic and enticing self-described 'Hispanippino'. While I am not truly fluent, I speak enough Spanish to order in restaurants and get around in Latin America, with enough help from the forgiving and generous locals I have always met. I am teaching her some Spanish, but not enough. My husband, also pasty white guy, is no help at all. Still, we can manage some connection to my daughter's Mexican heritage through our growing local Hispanic population and her birthmother's mother. However, we have no connection whatsoever to the Philippines and that portion of her heritage (birthmother's father is out of the picture). Further complicating the issue, is that my daughter doesn't look Hispanic (or Philippine) at all, even as her birth certificate declares her Hispanic. I hope she will grow to love the cultures of her birth, all three of them. My worry is that because she can 'pass' that one day she may want to.