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Case: Your Dad Looks Like Osama.
Cultural awareness is important because we live in such a diverse country. As a teacher, I feel it is my responsibility to promote as much cultural awareness as possible in my 5th graders. As part my efforts, I invite people from diverse backgrounds to my classroom as guest speakers. I start with parents of my current students from various cultural backgrounds. Two weeks ago, I sent an invitation to the parents of my Arab-American student Mahmoud. Mahmoud's parents moved from Saudi Arabia to the US before he was born. His father works as an engineer in a large company and his mother is a nurse. I received an answer to my invitation the next day. Mahmoud's father agreed to come and talk to my class about his cultural and religious background. His guest talk was very informative and interesting. My students seemed to enjoy the session also. However, the next day I started hearing some of my students tease Mahmoud about his father's beard. They called Mahmoud's father "Osama." They asked him if his father was a "terrorist." I was shocked that despite my efforts to raise cultural awareness, my students gave into stereotypes so easily. Where did I go wrong? How should I respond to this situation?
Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!)
I do not think you went wrong anywhere. I think having cultural guests come speak to your classroom is a great way to educate your students first-hand. I think where the problem is deals with society's view and maybe the individual student's home-life and the way they hear people speak about certain cultural groups. I would address this situation to the entire class and point out both positive and negative people in history from all different backgrounds. (ex. "What if someone said your dad looks like Hitler, Ghandi, or Nelson Mandela?!") I would emphasize that it's not the color of people's skin that determine if they are good or bad, it's the actual person. |
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| Rated On: February 19, 2013 12:55 am |
| Rated By: maWyZu |
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| Comments: I really like the activity. This will be infomative and mind blowing for a lot of students. |
| Rated On: October 17, 2016 2:52 am |
| Rated By: Raven B |
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| Comments: I agree, this would be example of all different people throughout history. |
| Rated On: October 15, 2017 4:33 am |
| Rated By: ByGeDa |
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| Comments: This solution says much the same as the original highest post but does well to address the issue. |
| Rated On: October 31, 2021 8:01 am |
| Rated By: aPeQyG |
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