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assimilation, differences, discrimination, dress codes, education, islamophobia, law, racism, school
School dress codes aren’t only sexists, but there’s also racist and islamophobic.
I (First Nations, Mohawk) used to have hair past my chest but my middle school forced me to cut my hair because “boys couldn’t have hair past the tips of the ear” (I’m not a boy either, but they assigned me ‘boy’ as a gender) but even when I begged them to let me keep my hair because of spiritual beliefs, they forced me to cut it. A classic move of the white school system against native children. I got a referral everyday for the 65 days I refused to cut my hair. I cried for two weeks after the principal took scissors to my hair. I’m still growing it back.
My best friend (who is an aboriginal Egyptian) was once told to remove her hijab (also a gift I had given her) because “hats weren’t allowed” (a mixture of racism and islamophobia), she reluctantly took it off.
In middle school again, my friend Nemo ( First Nations, Navajo) was told she couldn’t wear her traditional clothing on her 13 birthday, celebrating her reaching puberty. She was sent home and forced to spend her birthday alone while her parents worked.
Tomorrow is my 18th birthday, an important life event in Mohawk culture (becoming an adult) and I want to wear my traditional clothes to school, especially because I’ll have to celebrate all alone this year since I live far away from my nation. Even though my school doesn’t have uniforms or a strict dress code, I’m afraid they’ll tell me that my clothes or very light face paint are “distracting” and tell me to take off my traditional jewellery (headband, choker, bracelets) or wash off the face paint.
I’m sure these are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to racism in the school dress code, and general school systems. White culture is enforced in everything from the dress code to the curriculum.
many european countries explicitly prohibit wearing headscarves like the hijab in schools, too
Oh my god. And I thought school dress codes were only sexist. This is a whole new level.
don’t forget african-american students being sent home for or forbidden from wearing their natural hairstyles
at least one positive point i can add is that in germany headscarfes/religious headwear are allowed in class/schools and there’s a law against teachers forcing them to take it off. We also have no dress code in general except for i.e. top crops. Normal tops (that show shoulders) are allowed and at least in my old school were never a problem.
Yeah, in Norway too we have no official dress code in state schools, except that the elementary schoolers, aged six to twelve, are required to wear the necessary warm clothing for the weather in winter, and take outdoors winter clothes off indoors so they don’t sweat to death or spill melted snow water everywhere.
But from middle school through high school, there isn’t really any dress code? Except in middle school teachers would tell us to please not wear outdoors clothes like beanies, raincoats and sunglasses indoors, and it probably would not have been ok to show up to school in just swimming suits or something like that. But there are no actual rules on the students’ modesty, or style, or ‘professionalism’ in schools.
But religious headcoverings are indoors clothes anyways, and the schools are forbidden from forcing people to take it off, as that would be religious discrimination. State schools can’t order students to change their hairstyle or impose any sanction to make them cut long hair short neither.
And I’m pretty sure a school would be in big trouble now if they did not allow for example a sami youth to wear their gákti or kofte to graduation, as it would be extremely blatant discrimination as norwegian youth often wear norwegian bunads or folkedrakt to graduation, but in the recent past that type of discrimination is likely to have been an issue here due to the norwegianization policies that were in place from 1900 to the 1980′s.
I’ve heard that the law against religious garments in public institutions in France, makes it illegal for muslim, sikh, and orthodox jewish youth to wear religious hair-coverings or head-coverings in school. So I hope that law won’t spread and make problems for young people in religious minorities here.
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in*shakes fantasy authors by the shoulders* You have magic! You have other worlds! You can do literally anything! Stop writing about bland white people oppressing other bland white people for their ability to shoot multicolored sparklers out of their fingers! Where are my black-skinned dragon riders? Where are my alternate magical philosophies between cultures? Where are my stories about indigenous civilizations using magic to fight off would-be colonizers? Where are my mathemagicians? Why are you like this?!
04 Mon Apr 2016
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no actual asians cast for this movie but here’s two white people dressed up like… whatever the hell this is
that’s literal yellowface
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28 Mon Mar 2016
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Do Christians know that this is the most terrifying time of year for Jews?
Here I thought maybe there was something wrong with me. Glad to know I’m not alone in this.
Every time I see an Easter themed anything my heart starts racing. I need this awful awful set of days to be over already.
I mean there’s history here too. We were locked into the ghettos during Holy Week or prohibited from being in the streets on Easter depending on the country. There’s the uptick in blood libel (Christian children’s blood thought to be an ingredient in matzah) and Jewish deicide (because Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus). Easter has always been a violent time for Jews living in Christian countries.
It’s the worst. In Brazil they make Judas effigies and beat it aggressively, hang it, before burning it. In some cities people go looking for Jews “to get them to pay for their crime.”