Many situations of racism could be avoided simply by knowing and being familiar with other cultures and customs, by letting our curiosity fly and knowing something more about that world that is out there. It is clear that the effect of globalization will reach everywhere and that soon having an African or American neighbor will be like having it from Cuenca or Lugo.
Sure that many of your children have or will have in class some classmate of different raceIt may even be that your children are the "different" of the group. Also, it is possible that in the future, our children will have to travel outside our borders in search of a different life and it will be that base that they received from children that helps them adapt to other customs, which do not have to be better or worse than ours, simply different.
One of the best assets we have is food, a perfect link for our children to know other cultures through new flavors and foods.
Basmati rice, miso soup, ceviche, cous-cous ... There are many dishes that today begin to be quite common in restaurants, even some we prepare them at home quite frequently, they are exotic, a change in our day to day life, Although not all of us like them and even some of them can be unpleasant because they are dishes that we are accustomed to, because culturally we do not usually eat that product or because we have not crossed that type of cuisine, - I think many We will remember the first time we enter a Japanese restaurant or try a stuffed jalapeno.
We, at home, love the cuisine of other countries and often prepare a recipe, one in which it is not very difficult to find its ingredients without having to cross the city. I recognize that I am a regular in the recipes of our colleagues from Direct to the Palate. I have to say that my children are used to eating everything from a very young age and when we decide to dine out there is no type of cuisine that is discarded, - except for the one that comes out for 100 euros the dish, but that is more because of problems of portfolio that palate-
I think it is very important to teach our children new kitchens, new flavors and not only stay there, but also teach them where the food we eat comes from or how they are cooked. It is also a good way to get our children to accept new foods and not have a war on the table every time you put a salad or a plate of beans.
I leave you now with a couple of videos, the first shows the reactions of different American children when they are given to try the menus that other children eat in their countries of origin and the second, which shows the reactions of Korean children when they try American snacks.
In the video we see something quite common, the child who refuses to try almost everything in front of him, a very serious problem in many homes. It also struck me that there are children who try a meal and like it, but when they are told what it is, a root in this case, they stop eating it. That's where our culture comes in, teaching them where the things they eat come from is very important, because if we don't do it, the day will come when our children don't know what an orange is and say so while they drink a brick juice. with a giant label of "100% squeezed oranges"
As much for some as for the others, the capacity to adapt to the others or to respect their differences and to see their positive side, passes by house, by our example and values that we instill to them. It is ne our hands to open the mind to an entire world around them.
