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Subject: Re: [OT] 12 year old British born girl punished for celebrating
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On 2025-07-18 4:42 PM, moviePig wrote:
> On 7/17/2025 1:13 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> On Jul 16, 2025 at 3:33:02 PM PDT, "Rhino" 
>> <no_offline_contact@example.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Her entire school had a Cultural Diversity Day and all students were
>>> told to wear something celebrating her own culture instead of the usual
>>> school uniforms so she wore a dress that was essentially a British flag.
>>> She was an A student but found herself punished for her choice of
>>> clothing - along with other students - and her parents were called to
>>> pick her up early.
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE2jV5qxE4g [8 minutes]
>>>
>>> Her parents were not at all happy and her community was very agitated as
>>> well. The school gave an after-the-fact "apology" where they promised to
>>> reconsider how the event was run the next year. I'll believe that when I
>>> see it!
>>
>> Oh, I'm sure they are truly reconsidering how the event will be run in 
>> the
>> future. This time around, the flyer with the instructions for the 
>> event said
>> to come dressed in a manner expressing your nationality or family 
>> heritage,
>> and didn't exclude white native-born British nationality and heritage.
>>
>> After reconsideration, I'm sure they'll conclude that where they went 
>> wrong
>> was not making it clear from the start that the event doesn't include 
>> white
>> people and/or British history or culture. Next year's flyer will be 
>> sure to
>> make that explicit, with instructions to the white kids to just wear 
>> their
>> normal school uniforms while everyone else dresses up.
> 
> Or... they could say that, since everyone at the school is daily 
> surrounded by British culture, the event is meant to showcase a variety 
> of others.
> 
> 
So, every culture is to be celebrated EXCEPT that of the host country 
which welcomed all the others to their country.

-- 
Rhino