Teaching Unity In A Multicultural Politically Correct Educational System
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Teaching Unity In A Multicultural Politically Correct Educational System
http://www.americandaily.com/item/4270
Mary Mostert,
January 10, 2004
On my Christmas visit to Wisconsin, which seemed plagued by computer crashes
and other technological difficulties, I had an opportunity, thanks to a
granddaughter, April, to spend a day teaching a few facts about Africa in a
school that seems to be sort of a laboratory for multi-culturalism.
The teacher had asked if any students had an "African" ancestor and my blond
granddaughter, knowing that her grandfather and most of her Mostert uncles
and her aunt were born in South Africa raised her hand. The young teacher,
seizing a teaching moment, invited me to spend the day in his 7th grade
Social Studies class to talk to his four classes about Africa.
This was the best Christmas present I could have gotten. The ignorance about
the continent of Africa and its people has bugged me my entire life. It
started when, in elementary school, I tried in vain to teach one of my
teachers that "Africa" was not a country, but was a continent. She never
seemed to undertand what I was talking about. In her mind it was a country
inhabited entirely with black people who were all one "race."
This ignorance over the years has now morphed into adoption of the use of
the term "African-American" and the make-believe holiday called Kwanzaa,
invented by an American who claims it is an African cultural thing. As an
activist in the 1940s and 1950s in the Race Relations movement, I
specifically objected to the labeling of people as "colored" or "Negro" or,
later, "blacks." The whole point, I thought, of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill
was to end racial segregation and labeling.
Then the liberal Democrats, seemingly determined to keep racial labeling
alive, came up with what President John F. Kennedy called "affirmative
action" in his executive order that created the term. We have gone, in a
mere 40 years, from occasional labeling of people as "Negro" or "colored" on
job applications to kindergarten children being asked what their ethnic
label is. Labels in the census have moved from "white" and "black" to about
a dozen different labels that somehow or other provide special treatment to
people whom claim to be a "minority."
Now I'm being told by grandchildren in several states, that some of the kids
with dark complexions (some of them, in fact, lighter in hue than I am) when
reprimanded are quick to accuse the teacher of "picking on them" because of
their skin color. The teachers then quickly back off.
With each class of 7th graders, I first asked them what they thought of when
they thought of Africa. The most common thought mentioned was that it was
"hot" or there were "animals" - often mentioning specific animals. One black
boy said that he thought of "tigers" when he thought of Africa, and of
course I had to tell him tigers don't live in Africa. He was sure I was
wrong until another black kid convinced him that tigers live in Asia.
Many children thought of "black people" or "poor people" when they thought
of Africa and none seemed to realize there were modern cities in Africa.
They were astonished when I showed them pictures of Cape Town, which my
ancestors began building in 1652 and not even the teacher knew that, in
1652, there were no black people living in the area that is now the Cape.
The people who did live there, and who, according to modern DNA testing, had
lived there for 30,000 years were the Bushmen (now called the San) and the
Hottentots (later labelled the Khoikhoi). They are a small, brown people and
are not kin to the black Bantu tribes that migrated into Southern Africa in
the 18th century and who now constitute the majority of the people in South
Africa today.
The language of the Bushmen and the cattle owning Hottentots is not one of
the 11 "official" languages of South Africa protected by the new South
African Constitution adopted in the mid-1990s. The 11 official languages
were introduced to Southern Africa by people who migrated from Central
Africa and Europe. None of the official languages are from either the
natives of South Africa or the slaves who were brought in from Asia in the
17th and 18th centuries. The new 1995 South African Constitution declared
all eleven languages, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda,
Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa and isiZul, "the official
languages of the Republic."
This is multi-culturalism run amuck and will take South Africa bacwards.
One of the things I pointed out to the students was the problems faced when
there is no unity of purpose or language. On the continent of Africa there
are more than 1000 languages spoken. Although 51% of the world's population
live in Asia while only 13% of the world's population live in Africa. I
asked the students why they thought that had happened. Some thought it was
because Africans were poorer than Asians. Only, of course, nothing matches
the poverty in some areas of Asia. I pointed out that, if they represented a
class in a public school in South Africa there might be 11 different
languages spoken in the class.
What would happen in a class where there were 11 languages spoken "We
wouldn't understand each other," a number of children said. And, I said,
when people don't understand each other, what often happens? In every class
someone would say, and it was almost always a boy, "They would start
fighting." Right. That's sort of the history of Africa not only today, but
for as long as we have records about Africa.
When I was living in South Africa in 1991-1992 I visited a Zulu "cultural"
exhibit where tourists flocked to see traditional war dances performed by
teen-aged Zulus in front of traditional round thatched huts. After the
dance, when the audience had left, I peaked in to see what the teenagers
were doing in the native hut. They were all seated on the dirt floor
intently watching an America movie on television.
Since the movie was, of course, in English, the language they need to learn
if they want to become an engineer or a doctor or a scientist, the TV show
was far more important for their own personal future than learning the war
chants of their ancestors.
While it may be fun to look back and learn about things that happened to our
ancestors, school should be about acquiring the tools the students will need
in their future - which includes today learning good communication skills
needed to acquire knowledge. There are no engineering or medical schools or
drivers' license tests given in Ebonics or Zulu even in South Africa.
--
JimB
http://www.geocities.com/UAM01
Union Against Multi-Culty
Serge
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> Teaching Unity In A Multicultural Politically Correct Educational System
> http://www.americandaily.com/item/4270
> Mary Mostert,
> January 10, 2004
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> On my Christmas visit to Wisconsin, which seemed plagu
(reams of mindless bullshit snipped)
Antimulticulture never ever replies to responses to his cut and
paste posts.
The fact is, the poor slob can't think for himself and just posts
verbatim drivel he plagiarises from various fascist sources.
I'm afraid he hasn't got the intellectual wherewithal to indulge
in meaningful debate.
In short he's a drongo whose shoe-size far exceeds his intellect.
An airhead best ignored.
Serge.
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> > Teaching Unity In A Multicultural Politically Correct Educational System
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> > Mary Mostert,
> > January 10, 2004
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> > On my Christmas visit to Wisconsin, which seemed plagu
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> (reams of mindless bullshit snipped)
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> Antimulticulture never ever replies to responses to his cut and
> paste posts.
Feeling ignored?
> The fact is, the poor slob can't think for himself and just posts
> verbatim drivel he plagiarises from various fascist sources.
A bit like some of your lefty mates.
> I'm afraid he hasn't got the intellectual wherewithal to indulge
> in meaningful debate.
And you have?
> In short he's a drongo whose shoe-size far exceeds his intellect.
The old sergie trick. Don't discuss the issue - just name call the
messenger.
> An airhead best ignored.
Self praise doesn't become you.
> Serge.
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Roger
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> > Teaching Unity In A Multicultural Politically Correct Educational System
> > http://www.americandaily.com/item/4270
> > Mary Mostert,
> > January 10, 2004
> >
> > On my Christmas visit to Wisconsin, which seemed plagu
>
> (reams of mindless bullshit snipped)
>
>
> Antimulticulture never ever replies to responses to his cut and
> paste posts.
He's an Australian racist who thinks he knows something about American
politics.
If he knew anything more than his name he wouldn't be a racist.
howdy doody
Peer J. Knoerich
please do us a little favour and keep your postings for yourselves. we
don't like american postings in german newsgroups. ok?
peer
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Torpedo
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BBQ style Kangaroo fillet
Chef: Dale Scott
Kangaroo fillet coated in a roasted wattleseed and dorrigo
pepper crust, served on a sop sop pancake and warrigal greens stack, and
served
with The Dilly Bag - Bush Tomato Relish
You need:
Sop Sop Pancake:
Make up batter
2 cups flour plain
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt (very important)
2 eggs
2 tblsp oil
1 cup coconut milk
Grate sweet potato,pumpkin,together with i sloced banana, add to pancke
batter
mix
Method:
Heat pan or BBQ place a little oil spoon batter on to hot plate Cook until
bubbled all over the top and brown on bottom. Flip, cook until brown on
other side. Keep your pan/ hot plate very hot at all times.
Cooking the Meat:
Coat the meat in a little macdamia nut oil, combine 20g roasted wattleseed,
10g
dorrigo pepper on a tray roll the oiled kangarro fillet in the native
spices,
Place on the hot BBQ plate and leave to cook for 2 minutes rotate the fillet
until browned on all sides {Kanagroo fillet is best when cooked
rare}-{optional}
Leave to rest while you prepare the warrigal greens and pancake.
Warrigal greens have compounds in the leaves - oxalate, nitrate and
saponin -
which prevent them from being eaten fresh, so they have to be blanched in
boiling water first, or heated to welt the leaves.
So I heat the leaves on the BBQ in a little macadamia nut oil
Serving Suggestion: Place the sop sop pancake on a plate, slice the kangaroo
fillet top wih
warrigal greens and The Dilly Bag Bush Tomato Relish.
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Izzy
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making all people into arabs, speaking arabic and eating only arab food.
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