Re: Why children should run the world

Marienkaefer2 · ‎03-09-2010

@AngusandBuddhasMom wrote:
@Mactective wrote:
I have to agree with you Peaches McFee. As someone with Native American heritage, I get very tired of the stereotypes. My favorite thing is when people ask why I left the reservation! I've never lived on a reservation, I don't have a doeskin dress with fringe, I don't do beadwork, I don't drink and I live in a very "typical" middle class america neighborhood and home with a very typical middle class america job.

Her sentiments are sweet but it shows how far we still have to go.....
Because showing traditional dress regardless at how basic or crude it may be is some how wrong? I highly doubt the artist meant anything disrespectful. Only an adult would need to look for something wrong with this.

ITA with Caravaggio. A friend of mine teaches on a reservation school in Montana. The children are proud of their native dress and wear it during events and celebrations. A friend of mine who is of Japanese descent (her mom is from Japan ) is very proud of her traditional Japanese dress that she wears to various cultural events. It's not stereotyping, it's the view of a child of the many cultures of her friends. The child who drew the picture, by her name, is Latina. One of my high school friends runs her own ballet folklorico company and is very proud of her traditional Mexican dress.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.--Marcus Tullius Cicero

feline groovy · ‎07-29-2014

@Ladybug724 wrote:
Oooh not a good idea. If my children ran the world green vegetables (except green beans) woud be illegal, homework would be against the law and the driving age would be lowered to 10, also the Mall Cop guy or one of the My Little Ponies would be president

If only!

mima · ‎03-14-2010

@Peaches McPhee wrote:
That is indeed a wonderful picture, BUT, I am shaking my head over the ethnic stereotypes that even this little 5 year old is aware of -- the little Native American boy with a feather in his hair, and the little Asian girl with top knot and traditional dress.

I'm not sure how the little artist would let people know that the one child was NA and the other child was Asian if he/she didn't add the native dress to let us know.

I live in KS and we have real reservations all around us and we have REAL Pow-wows. The NA's around here are proud of their heritage and have the real costumes with feathers and everything. I'm not sure what is wrong with the feather on the one child to show he is NA. The NA's around here really have those head-dresses, mocs, etc. Of course they only wear them for celebrations and not for every day.

I don't see a thing wrong with it.

I have a lot of sweedish in me but I don't wear wooden shoes. I wouldn't be offended if a pic was drawn of a child with wooden shoes though!

Anita Bourbon · ‎06-15-2015

And the next topic for debate will be: the socio-economic and ethnocentric implications of "It's a Small World."

I love the internet sometimes.

Ladybug724 · ‎03-12-2010

@feline groovy wrote:
@Ladybug724 wrote:
Oooh not a good idea. If my children ran the world green vegetables (except green beans) woud be illegal, homework would be against the law and the driving age would be lowered to 10, also the Mall Cop guy or one of the My Little Ponies would be president

If only!

Ha ha right!!!

SHIRAZ · ‎06-27-2010

If this child had NOT drawn some of the children in their native costumes, how would you know what they were supposed to be? We are talking about a 5-year old with limited drawing skills and a limited number of crayon colors. What good would it do to draw them so they just look like a couple of more white kids? The artist did what she did to get her point across. Simple.

"It doesn't matter if the glass is half-full or half-empty as long as you still have the rest of the bottle."

Plaid Pants2 · ‎03-14-2015

@SHIRAZ wrote:
If this child had NOT drawn some of the children in their native costumes, how would you know what they were supposed to be? We are talking about a 5-year old with limited drawing skills and a limited number of crayon colors. What good would it do to draw them so they just look like a couple of more white kids? The artist did what she did to get her point across. Simple.

If she did that, then people would complain that the child didn't include other ethnicities.

The poor child can't win for loosing.

SahmIam · ‎04-16-2010

@baker wrote:
@SahmIam wrote:
@AngusandBuddhasMom wrote:
@Mactective wrote:
I have to agree with you Peaches McFee. As someone with Native American heritage, I get very tired of the stereotypes. My favorite thing is when people ask why I left the reservation! I've never lived on a reservation, I don't have a doeskin dress with fringe, I don't do beadwork, I don't drink and I live in a very "typical" middle class america neighborhood and home with a very typical middle class america job.

Her sentiments are sweet but it shows how far we still have to go.....
Because showing traditional dress regardless at how basic or crude it may be is some how wrong? I highly doubt the artist meant anything disrespectful. Only an adult would need to look for something wrong with this.
Exactly my thoughts on this. There's always one searching ........
Look, the sterotyping starts at the cradle, no one has to search too far to figure that one out. I'm surprised the teacher didn't catch that , it could have been a good lesson learned for the kids.

Yep, there's one in every group that just has to ruin it.....you would be that one. Thanks ever so much.

ROMARY · ‎04-28-2010

If it offended some folks, it wasn't intentionally done (by the 5 yr. old child). The important thing is whether or not a comment by a child or adult is intentional.

'More or less', 'Right or wrong', 'In general', and 'Just thinking out loud ' (as usual).