General Discussion

Racism is learned behavior. He learned it from his Dad. Unfortunately, racism is in all cultures. But it’s learned behavior. Kids don’t know racism. My kids grew up overseas and in the international schools, strangely, there did not seem to be racism of skin color. My kids did not see racism of skin color until they moved back to the states when they were in 2nd and 5th grade. They didn’t understand. I had to explain it to them. I loved that when they were in international schools, that they identified each other by country. They found each other on the map. They celebrated that they could find their friend’s country on the map. The schools promoted pride in the diversity of kids from different countries. Skin color was not in my children’s vocabulary until they moved back to the US. Which was sad. They were kind of shocked that that was a thing.,