RE: Khmerican Family Abroad #19 🕉️ Holi at Petuniaschool 🛕 Good Over Evil in Suriname
This is absolutely fabulous! Wouldn't the world such a better place with children running it? They are not borne with hatred in their hearts, they learn it.
We could learn a lot from them, open, honest and accepting.
This was so wonderful to see and I have to admit, perhaps because my family and I have worked and traveled all over the world, my kids were never judgemental nor prejudiced in any way.
As a matter of fact, I think back when my son was trying to let me know which child he was talking about and he said, the one with the orange shoes on, when in fact, it would have been easier to identify him as the black person (he was the only one) and there were lots of orange shoes! But he did not identify or look at them that was. He was colorblind in that respect.
How awesome if we could all be that way.
Wonderful post!
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So kind of you @dswigle!!
Out of the mouths of babes do we gain strength.
Funny you said that, our girls here have never really been around black children before. The few they know in Cambodia they would certainly refer to as black as being the most identifiable feature. However, even though Suriname is mostly Asian, our school district is predominantly black. Now, surrounded by black classmates, they can't just refer to the black kid and think I will know who it is. The more multiethnic the place, the more you gotta describe people I guess. I'm easy, the "big ginger guy with the turban."