Re: Cultural assimilation, yea or nae?


Isla Maia wrote:

well alright, the bottom line for me here is - if a child has to learn
something in a school environment, and what s/he learns is standard,
then i won't have a problem with it.

i will want to know the teachers and i assume there's a PTA
(parent-teacher association) set up so you can actually get to know who
teaches your kid and talk to the teacher on a one-on-one basis. i feel
getting to know who teaches your child is important because as an adult
you can sense if the person has a talent in teaching or not. also, as
a concerned parent, i personally feel one should always talk to one's
child and find out if a certain subject is agreeable with the child or
not, and why.

sometimes the child is affected by the teacher, sometimes by her/his
classmates ... if a parent doesn't find out by conducting regular talks
with the child, then you won't be able to get to the problem when it's
just taking root.

now, if the teacher is a problem, then i want to talk to the teacher,
and as a teacher myself, i'd deal with him/her as i see fit. i don't
have to make a big deal out of a silly issue of whether a child eats
with a spoon or a knife - that's not what education is all about - it
doesn't focus on just this one extra-curricular activity, proper social
etiquette is only part of a number of things the child has to learn,
and we constantly learn even in our age.

if i have trouble with the teacher and the school, i take my kid out
and put the child in another school. everyone has a choice these days.


Yup, you can do that. But taking the case to court also makes for
interesting jurisprudence. If only for that, this would be
interesting.

now, much as i'd admire a person for wearing a barong tagalog to show
national pride in his choice of clothing ... i think i'd be the first
one to jokingly tell the person that the clothing would be
inappropriate in stockholm in the height of winter when the
temperatures would fall several degrees below zero.

tell me - would you consider it stupid or smart of the pinoy who
insists on wearing his barong tagalog out in the cold in the north
pole?

really, all we can say is just words to the guy like, "he's crazy!" -
but who'll really suffer?


The really crazy people are the ones who wear a coat and tie in the RP.
I do that sometimes but only when I'm going to a well airconditioned
room. But before the Barong Tagalog people wore a coat and tie here.

The point is that it is not about national pride. It is about
practicality. And filipinos are not the type who would like to wear
layers and layers of clothing. Just walk the streets here, you'll find
most people wear shirts and blue jeans. Unlike in other parts of the
world where people on the streets seem to have jumped out of the pages
of cosmo.

Its the same with the spoon and the fork. Its the simplest way to eat.
When I have steak, I don't mind having a knife and a fork. But it
always gets to mee when the meal served has rice and all I have is a
fork. Chopsticks would have been better.

and likewise, we can tell the child to go against authority and
exercise whatever freedom you think he should exercise when he's the
only one going against the norm, again, who'll really suffer in the
end?


If we're talking about a smart child, the norm will suffer, not the
child.

Its the same when Copernicus said that the Earth was not the center of
the universe. Or when Christ told off the pharisees about what could
be done on the Sabbath day.

now don't you think this subject is getting to be rather boring - i'm
frankly not all *that interested* in this kid who's got a table manner
problem in canada. he's not my kid and not my problem.

--isla maia


Not at all.

.

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