We all have our likenesses & differences but yet we all yearn for acceptance and to just "fit in" somewhere. But why? What is this yearning within us all to be liked? Why can't we accept each other's differences and celebrate individuality.
Diversity was just on my mind today so I'm posting this video just to see how you guys feel about the topics discuss and where do you stand. Feel free to comment!It is about an Iowa schoolteacher who, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, gave her third-grade students a first-hand experience in the meaning of discrimination. This is the story of what she taught the children, and the impact that lesson had on their lives.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html
“Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.”
― bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
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