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The NCB is a government sponsored agency by the UK and it has issued some guidelines to nursery schools and play leaders, with things to look forto suggest racism at an early age. According to NCB, a child disliking foreign food could be an indicator.
According to The Telegraph, the National Children's Bureau is a government sponsored agency that receives approximately £12 million annually and the guidance they have drawn up is supposedly to help teachers and play leaders to spot potentially racist attitudes starting at a young age, some as early as three.
It is a 366-page guide titled, "Young Children and Racial Justice" and it specifies things for the elders to look for in children, such as "name-calling, casual thoughtless comments and peer group relationships."
The guide goes on to warn that children might also "react negatively to a culinary tradition other than their own by saying 'yuk'".
Now, after looking a little further into this, the Telegraph is correct, the "Young Children and Racial Justice" is produced by the NCB and it the NCB does receive £12 million annually from the government and the advice quoted included the bit about spicy or foreign foods is in the "guidance" but what is not made clear in the original article is that this is a book that has been published by book sales alone – and not from government funding or from any grants, as has been reported.
Sally Whitaker, Deputy Chief Executive, NCB, said:
‘This book is brim full of important issues that professional early years workers need to be aware of and seek to address constructively. It is an excellent resource, which has been specially designed to help teachers and nursery leaders put racial equality into practice across their provision.
Either way, that is a technicality, the thought that children who do not a particular type of food because it is foreign or because it is spicy, is in my opinion, simply ridiculous.
What explanation would this writer have for children who hate liver or spit out hot dogs, despise beans or cannot take the taste of hamburgers?
A child's palate is no way to determine prejudicial tendencies and anyone that thinks that it is, has never had a child that was fickle about what they would and wouldn't eat.
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Good grief!!
I hated (and still do) sauerkraut, which would make me a self-hater, as I am part German, I guess.
Interesting find Sue :)
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Ridiculous, food preferences are food preferences.
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Seriously just off the wall. There are some cultures who don't like the taste or smell of cinniamon because it is not something they are used to. That doesn't make them racist, it makes them smart. Cinniamon might not agree with thier stomachs.
As far as airheaded behavior...All kids do that. Now they are going to start labeling kids racist because they comment on the color of a person's skin? Kids comment on other peoples differences all the time, that is how they get a feel for who they are.
btw, I don't like saurkraut either. I also don't like anything that is spicy hot, despite my mother loving it. I don't like raw tomatoes, and the taste of fish is touch and go with me. Does that mean I am racist against Germans, New Englanders, and Indians?
Sometimes things just go too far.
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PC'ness taken to an illogical extreme. I hate okra, hence I hate all Cajun's?
I dislike mango, who do I hate for that? A hidden hatred? Now I need couseling.
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I couldn't believe it when I saw it either...unreal huh?
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A Child doesn't know anything about Racism, until he or she learns from the parents. There is no correlation.
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@ Chris V. (cgull)
A Child doesn't know anything about Racism, until he or she learns from the parents. There is no correlation.
I agree and I also think it is perfectly natural for a child to develop their taste buds according to what their parents feed them. It stands to reason that if they go to school or elsewhere and are fed foods they are not used to, they will not like them.
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@ Chris V. (cgull)
A Child doesn't know anything about Racism, until he or she learns from the parents. There is no correlation.
EXACTLY! -
Let's see, I like Mexican food, Chinese, Italian, German, Hungarian, Thai, Indian, Japanese, Russian..........................................
Damn I'm making myself hungry here.
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Its just another example of our 'top people' going 'over the top' yet again.
This sort of thing angers the normal Brit so much that I cant begin to tell you. Yet, day in, day out we seem to find some more incredibly stupid ways to:
a) waste tax payers money
b) pander to 'political correctness'
It'll not be long here in the UK before we cant wear black or white clothes in case we offend someone, in fact everyone will have to wear green, or would that offend 'grass' ...
We live in a multi-cultural Britain that in my experience is very tolerant to sex, race, religion etc.. Why we have to push the issues in such a ludicrous direction beats me and almost everyone else here ...
... next we'll be making our Police sniffer dogs wear 'booties' when searching a muslims house ... damn, we do that already.
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What the heck...this is craziness. I don't buy this bologna for a minute!
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*shudder* .... bologna. I guess I'm anti-whoever-created-processed-meat-leftovers.
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@ Sykos Masters
*shudder* .... bologna. I guess I'm anti-whoever-created-processed-meat-leftovers.
Ah...do you know what all goes in these processed meats? YUCKY! -
@ Debra Myers (skyangel)
Ah...do you know what all goes in these processed meats? YUCKY!
Exactly!!! Always reminds me of soilant green ... and a classic Star Trek OS episode involving small mind-bending aliens that resembled fried bologna *going to hide under the covers now* ... =D -
@ Sykos Masters
Exactly!!! Always reminds me of soilant green ... and a classic Star Trek OS episode involving small mind-bending aliens that resembled fried bologna *going to hide under the covers now* ... =D
Hack! Don't know that I saw that particular episode, tho'! -
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What does racism/prejudice have anything to do with spicy foods?
Like Sykos, I could somewhat call myself a "self-hater" because I am Chinese and Vietnamese.
I hardly eat Vietnamese food. Mainly because I'm so sick and tired of it.
I don't go out and eat Chinese. Most cases, the restaurants might be putting MSG into the food. I can't be eating anything with MSG. Also, Chinese food here is different than Chinese food in China.
I could go on with this and so forth. But, that would be detracting from the point.
And no, it does not make you racist if you do not like spicy food. If spicy food makes you sit on the toilet numerous times out of the night, that's more than reason enough not to like spicy food.
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@ Can Tran (TFactor)
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What does racism/prejudice have anything to do with spicy foods?
Like Sykos, I could somewhat call myself a "self-hater" because I am Chinese and Vietnamese.
I hardly eat Vietnamese food. Mainly because I'm so sick and tired of it.
I don't go out and eat Chinese. Most cases, the restaurants might be putting MSG into the food. I can't be eating anything with MSG. Also, Chinese food here is different than Chinese food in China.
I could go on with this and so forth. But, that would be detracting from the point.
And no, it does not make you racist if you do not like spicy food. If spicy food makes you sit on the toilet numerous times out of the night, that's more than reason enough not to like spicy food.
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I am a caucasian who likes soul food. Does that mean I cannot be racist?
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@ sumdume
I am a caucasian who likes soul food. Does that mean I cannot be racist?
Who knows. I am sure in that book they will have something that wil show us all as racists. -
Aw shucks, I was so looking forward to getting off the white guilt trip!
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When young I didn't like spicy food because we lived in an area of the nation where spicy food wasn't served very much. I moved to an area where spicy food is the norm and now remember thinking when I first moved there I was going to starve as I couldn't eat the spicy food.
Having lived in this area for 40 years I can't imagine a meal without spicy foods. As I'm not particularly politically correct I suspect that now I will have to learn how not to like spicy food. Thanks a lot you liberal pukes.
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@ Yukiko
When young I didn't like spicy food because we lived in an area of the nation where spicy food wasn't served very much. I moved to an area where spicy food is the norm and now remember thinking when I first moved there I was going to starve as I couldn't eat the spicy food.
Having lived in this area for 40 years I can't imagine a meal without spicy foods. As I'm not particularly politically correct I suspect that now I will have to learn how not to like spicy food. Thanks a lot you liberal pukes.
LOL... Good point and since generally children are fickle about any food that they aren't used to, this whole business of using food to determine some type of racism is ridiculous. It is natural for kids to say yuk to foods they are not used to. Add a Comment
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Opinion: Is Your Child A Racist If He/She Doesn't Like Spicy Foods?
