On Amaya's soccer team there are 10 kids, and only three of them are girls. All seven of the boys are Caucasian. I don't like to say "white" because even the palest Caucasian person (Mike's dad) is not white. I even had an aunt that was Albino and even she wasn't truly white. I mean, if you held up a white piece of paper to her, she was darker than it. Anyway, all three of the girls are not Caucasian. Two of the girls are Asian and the other girl is African-American. The very first day of soccer Amaya noticed the Asian girl and said, "That girl is a Chinese girl just like me." She has never said anything about the other girl, until Saturday. Amaya was sitting on the sideline out of the game resting, and she pointed at the girl, who was out playing. She asked me, "Why is that girl in a brown body?" It was so funny the way she phrased it. Anyway, I explained to her about how some people have dark brown bodies, some people have medium brown bodies and some people have light brown bodies.
The preschool Amaya goes to is not very diverse at all. In all the years my kids have gone there (this is the fifth) I think there's only been about three kids in my kids' classes that aren't Caucasian. That's one reason I want Amaya to have the only minority (Chinese) teacher there next year. I think it will be good for her to be around someone like her. The elementary school my kids go to is fairly diverse, which I really like. I think it's good for them to be around all sorts of different kids so they grow up knowing that everybody can be a good person no matter what color their skin is.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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We are probably too far the other way with most of the kids friends being Asian (Chinese school) and even being adopted from China like there were.
I remember reading a couple of years ago (maybe on APC??) about a mom who went to bat to have the only 2 Asian kids in her childs grade level put into the same class. She said they spread them out as if they are token minorities for each classroom but it was way more important to her for her daughter to have someone else in her class that looked like her. I would not have thought of that but thought it was a pretty good point. We plan to homeschool for now but if it ever comes up, I am going to remember to aim for having other minorities and particularly Asians in with them.
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