Today my daughter came back with excitement. Her class had a special guest speaker. The speaker is a female Caucasian who had lived in People’s Republic of Bangladesh, and shared some information about this country. The speaker wore the local outfit which was totally new to the American students. Amoung all, the most shocking information for them was about their custom of using hands. They eat with their right hand and clean themselves with their left hand and water after going to the toilet.
My daughter said it was fun to know the different culture. All the students enjoyed this guest speaker’s presentation. Everybody was so curious to a new culture, and they had so many questions to ask.
I was happy to hear that. Learning different culture, especially in younger years, is helpful to learn to be flexible. Young kids are still pure and they don’t have any prejudice toward foreigners. As we age, we all accumulate certain belief that only our culture and our way of living are right, and others are wrong. However, that kind of thinking is wrong. We all have different culture and belief, and that is good to make our world diverse and unique. The important thing is to respect one another and never deny others just because they are different from us.
One of these days, I will volunteer to my daughter’s school to be a guest speaker and share Japanese culture and the way of life.
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