What are some advantages and disadvantages of overseas adoption?

I have this question in a legal excercise, the only one i can come up with is that it is less costly to do it overseas, and that it may be difficult for the adopted child to track down birth parents.

I was under the impression that the Stolen Generation refers to Aboriginal Adoptees in Australia. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

As a bi-racial adoptee myself who was raised by all white parents, I lost most of my culture.

That brought HUGE disadvantages to me. I felt like I was white and didn't like my olive skin. I didn't know my families multiple languages, I didn't know even where or who I came from. It was hard to do something as simple as look in the mirror.

The disadvantages would be:
loss of heritage
loss of language
loss of religion
loss of sense of self
loss of genetic / cultural mirroring

I think that when adopted within ones culture, by a family who gets it you can learn about your people. The advantages could possibly be :

a more positive sense of self by knowing who(what clan) and where we come from.
a celebration of relation to a group/body of people who share a simliar DNA to you.
Knowing the adoptees language
Adoptee being treated w/ respect as a person ( to my understanding some of the "stolen generation" were used a house keepers for their white adoptive parents )( which doesn't mean that AP's w/ different cultures can't treat the child w/ respect, I think theres a connection though, of being from the same culture between people )

Here is an article : the coming home of the cootamundra sisterhood

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/awaye/stories/2...

Please teach me more about this, I'd like to learn more. If you can share, i want to listen.

Look in the real world.
At the mess out there.
How with time.
We all ended up in throwing pots and pans in bashing up one another.
After being lost with time
Without being are of it.
Blindly searching the dead Mummy with empty skeleton of skull and bones in finding the way back to the pyramids in Egypt.
Luke 9.25,55-56,60
What do you think?

one of the disadvantages is that it takes a VERY long time. I have friends who adopted from overseas, and it's like a 3 year waiting list.
Another disadvantage is that is can sometimes be hard for a child to grow up in a family that they don't "visually" fit in with (ie: a caucasian family adopting an african baby)

i think a disadvantage would be that the adoptee would soon forget there natual language causing their culture to be up rooted.
my friends brother was adopted and he has a learning dificulty due to the language change.
to make it easier they could get together with other people the same nationality and have a culture night helping them to keep the culture in them.
But when you think about it the adoptee could die of starvation so your also helping them.
I'm in favour of adopting.