MissToodles
dead peasant
I realize I work with teenagers and even the most mature ones lack these traits: experience and perspective.
For example, we had an "African-American read-in" at my school. There was a panel discussing affirmative action, the pros and cons of it. Somehow it digressed into the issue of immigration. My school is one huge stew-many students are from the Carribean (both Spanish & non-Spanish speaking nations), West Africa, Albania and so forth. But this one boy kept going on about the Mexicans! see, many students in this school make fun of the day laborers who mill near the school. They assume they're all Mexican too, because that's sort of the catch all phrase for brown skinned person who stands on the street corner. Apparently a 17 year old feels these men are taking jobs from him! I don't understand why they feel such antipathy towards people who are trying to make better lives for themselves or their families in their home land. Many of the students have parents who came over here and somehow they're "superior".
For example, we had an "African-American read-in" at my school. There was a panel discussing affirmative action, the pros and cons of it. Somehow it digressed into the issue of immigration. My school is one huge stew-many students are from the Carribean (both Spanish & non-Spanish speaking nations), West Africa, Albania and so forth. But this one boy kept going on about the Mexicans! see, many students in this school make fun of the day laborers who mill near the school. They assume they're all Mexican too, because that's sort of the catch all phrase for brown skinned person who stands on the street corner. Apparently a 17 year old feels these men are taking jobs from him! I don't understand why they feel such antipathy towards people who are trying to make better lives for themselves or their families in their home land. Many of the students have parents who came over here and somehow they're "superior".
