My school loves to brag about being multicultural and recently had a celebration to promote other cultures. They do this mainly because the majority of the student body consists of people of Asian, African and Arab descent. Here's the kicker. If you've been in any of the school washrooms you would see the trash written on the walls. What sticks out to me the most is the swastikas (I think I spelled it right) and "natzi" (I know it's Nazi but someone actually spelled it Natzi) slogans, along with your kill [insert minority here], you even have it other way around with kill all white people and so on.
So maybe your thinking this, "those are just a few racists in the bunch, they don't represent the majority" true enough. But how does that explain why most groups of kids "self-segregate" one another? By self-segregate I mean they only willingly assosiate with people of the same race. Sure they will work with students of other creeds when they have no other option but when they can they will only hang out with other people of the same skin color. And it applies to everyone.
Maybe it has to do with everyone being racist to a certain degree, after all, if we weren't racist we wouldn't even need the term race to describe skin color.
So I'm left wondering, multiculturalism means promoting and accepting everyone's culture. But from student actions it seems more like mere tolerance where no one interacts out of their ethnic group if they can help it. In fact the culture celebration I mentioned earlier? Unless I'm mistaken African, Asian and Middle-eastern countries got an extra bit of recognition proir to the day of the celebration with the hallways being flooded with music from those regions and promotional posters for them. Come the big day the countries being recognized came from those three regions, though I believe I saw one from the Ukraine but it didn't recieve the recognition the others did.
For the cultural celebration I truly believe that it is just a coiencidence considering that the whole thing is done by students and managed by teachers but prior to that seemed like favoritism. Has anyone else noticed this in schools that love to point out how "multicultural" they are?
So maybe your thinking this, "those are just a few racists in the bunch, they don't represent the majority" true enough. But how does that explain why most groups of kids "self-segregate" one another? By self-segregate I mean they only willingly assosiate with people of the same race. Sure they will work with students of other creeds when they have no other option but when they can they will only hang out with other people of the same skin color. And it applies to everyone.
Maybe it has to do with everyone being racist to a certain degree, after all, if we weren't racist we wouldn't even need the term race to describe skin color.
So I'm left wondering, multiculturalism means promoting and accepting everyone's culture. But from student actions it seems more like mere tolerance where no one interacts out of their ethnic group if they can help it. In fact the culture celebration I mentioned earlier? Unless I'm mistaken African, Asian and Middle-eastern countries got an extra bit of recognition proir to the day of the celebration with the hallways being flooded with music from those regions and promotional posters for them. Come the big day the countries being recognized came from those three regions, though I believe I saw one from the Ukraine but it didn't recieve the recognition the others did.
For the cultural celebration I truly believe that it is just a coiencidence considering that the whole thing is done by students and managed by teachers but prior to that seemed like favoritism. Has anyone else noticed this in schools that love to point out how "multicultural" they are?
