I've gotten use to a certain level of weirdness. Lots of news events seem weird to me, but almost normal.
This one shocked me - Toddlers who dislike spicy food 'racist'. From the UK:
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The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.
This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.
The guidance by the NCB is designed to draw attention to potentially-racist attitudes in youngsters from a young age.
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I wonder if the people who wrote these guidelines even have children? My children have turned their noses up at traditional American food, as well as a variety of ethnic foods. Does that mean they hate all races? No! It just means that normal children will often turn their noses up any new food. It takes awhile to get use to a new food.
Hopefully the people in the UK will tell the government to stop funding such silliness.
(Hat tip: Best of the Web)
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2 comments:
I had to sit my 5 year old DD down for a talk the other day after I overheard her telling the little girl next door that "blonde hair is the best". Her remark stemmed from pure vanity (naturally, whatever color hair she has is the best!) and is the kind of stupid stuff 5 year old girls have been saying to each other for ages.
But under these new guidelines, the fact that our neighbors happen to be Chinese would make it be a racial taunt. I'm certain that my DD would've said the exact same thing to a little Caucasian brunette and that it had nothing to do with racial prejudice.
Rude? Absolutely. Conceited? Yes. Racist? No.
This is typical of the kinds of problems that develop when political correctness is written into law.
Sad.
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