#Diversity Saturday: The reproduction of exclusionary routines

Young Girl on Swing Surrounded by Autumn Leaves
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Children have no prejudices unless you teach them!

They will follow the prejudiced routines of their parents or educators, or the defamatory content of outdated songs or stories. Songs are still sung in kindergartens that contain generalizing and defamatory portrayals of Native Americans, Africans, or Asians. There are still children's books and films in which the parents of the Italian child own an ice cream parlor, the euro-turkish is portrayed as if they came from a semi-criminal hip-hop ghetto, and there is the cliché of the funny fat guy and the Asian math genius - and you will never find a teacher with african roots in a german children's movie! As long as these stereotypes linger in people's minds, there will be exclusion and structural racism.

That is why I used this image with the stupid vietnamese sun hat. It is a clichee the AI reproduced. And as a kid I often felt like I was wearing one, because of the way other kids treated me. I was the "chinese" or the "slit eye" though I am vietnamese. They weren't taught better by their parents.

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