About the British riots

Readers Speak

Racist sentiment is usually acquired during childhood, sometimes even passed down generationally like a communicable virus or sickness. It may be further cemented by a misguided yet strong sense of entitlement, perhaps also environmentally acquired.

Especially if it’s deliberate, rearing one’s very impressionable young children in an environment of baseless contempt and overt bigotry amounts to a formidable form of child abuse.

Parents should really do their kids a big favour by NOT passing down such destructive sentiments and perceptions (including stereotypes and ‘humour’), since such rearing ironically can make life so much harder for one’s own children.

It fails to prepare children for the practical reality of an increasingly diverse and populous society and workplace. It also makes it so much less likely that those children will be emotionally content or preferably harmonious with their multicultural and multi-ethnic/-racial surroundings.

Children reared into their adolescence and, eventually, young adulthood this way can often be angry yet not fully realize at precisely what. Then they may feel left with little choice but to move to another part of the land, where their own ethnicity/race predominates, preferably overwhelmingly so.

This serious social/societal problem can and should be proactively prevented by allowing young children to become accustomed to other peoples, cultures, and faiths in a harmoniously positive manner.

Not surprisingly, the earliest years are typically the best time to instill and even solidify diversity-positive attitudes and social-interaction life skills/traits into a very young brain or mind.

Frank Sterle Jr.
White Rock, B.C.
Canada

Mauritius Times ePaper Friday 23 August 2024