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Subject: Re: [OT] 12 year old British born girl punished for celebrating
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:19:53 -0400
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On 7/19/2025 6:23 PM, Rhino wrote:
> 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.

The issue was "where they went wrong".  I proposed a reframing that's 
less obdurately jingoist than BTR's strawman.