Their daughter has been bullied via the ostentatious eating of Afghan biscuits and "oh look I am eating an Afghan".
That this happens makes me think there's enough reason to at least *want* to change it. I love to bake those biscuits and the idea that children could be hurt like this out of them makes me feel kinda sick.
I know I feel more weird about Afghan biscuits due to knowing actual Afghans.
Yeah, I really feel that this is the issue. Culturally we don't "know" Inuit in Aotearoa - even in as basic a way as we know Aussie indigenous peoples. So we don't recognise this as an issue. (I think Afghan, although much more difficult to change because of not being and brand but a baked good, is likely to have more impetus to change because there are surely going to be more Afghani immigrants than Inuit ones in the next few years.)
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Date: 2009-04-27 10:08 am (UTC)That this happens makes me think there's enough reason to at least *want* to change it. I love to bake those biscuits and the idea that children could be hurt like this out of them makes me feel kinda sick.
I know I feel more weird about Afghan biscuits due to knowing actual Afghans.
Yeah, I really feel that this is the issue. Culturally we don't "know" Inuit in Aotearoa - even in as basic a way as we know Aussie indigenous peoples. So we don't recognise this as an issue. (I think Afghan, although much more difficult to change because of not being and brand but a baked good, is likely to have more impetus to change because there are surely going to be more Afghani immigrants than Inuit ones in the next few years.)