I lived in Puerto Rico for most the first 10 years of my
life, then my mother moved to the NYC and when we arrived I was in shocked of
how crowded the city was. I was not
happy and I wanted to move back to PR. I
told my mother that when I turned 18 years old that I would move, and that's
exactly what I did. I was used to the
culture in PR. I loved the outdoors and
the country setting and I knew that I
was definitely not a city girl. I don't
like loud sirens noise waking me up or people screaming in the streets.
Then I joined the military and I had to move often as well
with my daughter. I think it's was hard
for her to adjust as well. If anything
she suffered more by having to established new friends. We ended up in Maine from her 1st grade to
6th grade. It was night and day for both
of us. The Mainers kept looking at us
like we didn't belong there. Nadine went
to school and kids made fun of her about her race and her skin color. She came home and was really upset and she
wanted to erase her skin color. I was devastated and I was confuse since I have never experienced
such thing in my life. Then we moved to
Virginia and she got bullied for again, having nice hair being light skin color
and for her stepfather being white. It's
not a win win situation with children now in this days. So this is why I believe that teaching about
cultural diversity it's such a huge thing for our children. A lot of kids don't really know why they are
bullying one another. Is it really
because a child is bi-racial? or because the child is dark or light skinned?
has curly or straight hair? I think that most of the time is because they are
unfamiliar with different matters. We
need to teach them more about different
cultures to try to lower the racism and bullying among our children.
I couldn't agree more...it is a sad time we live in, nothing like how it was when we were growing up. To watch your child(ren) being bullied or teased or just misunderstood is exactly why children need to be thought the diversity of cultures, so they can understand that we are all the same. The world would definitely be a better place!!!
ReplyDeleteI think a lot of the bullying takes place because children do not understand the differences between cultures or even the way people grow up. At some point many children learn to make fun of other people based on them looking or acting different. It is nothing but a mask to disguise ignorance.
ReplyDeleteEducation could help eliminate this ignorance and reduce the amount of bulling that kids are going through.
I actually loved moving and I think it taught my children useful skills as far as building relationships. Our american small towns need the culture wake-up call. WE are not the best, brightest culture.....THOSE who are different are equal. My daughter was the only white child in her class in Virginia. It surely opened her eyes to what life was like for the only black girl in her school back in Maine. The other students and teachers treated her differently. I think more good came from it than harm but shows the need in our country to learn acceptance.
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