so i was surfing around for more lynn chen pictures and biography…when i came across t his guy’s blog…i thought i’ve seen people’s utter ignorance for all things not familiar to them…but what i realized was that all that i’ve seen…only scratched the surface. these white fuckin ignorant people are just blows my mind…here’s the story. for those of you who are too lazy to click on the link, it essentially says that this chinese woman is fighting in the courts for her right to enroll her child in a japanese language immersion program in the afternoon (sort of like kindergarten) and in the morning a more traditional pre-school/kindergarten thing. unfortunately, the woman’s white ex-husband has decided that he can’t have that…because he believes that his young daughter will be developmentally retarded by not learning english as her primary language…so…he’s decided that his little girl can only learn english because he doesn’t speak anything else…and if she spoke something else, it would cause her to be distant from him…the absolutely ridiculous thing is that the court arbitrator and the judges agreed with him.
what kind of fuckin logic is that?! the child is a caucasian, chinese, and japanese mix. she has to learn to embrace three different cultures…but count on a white man to reject all other cultures except for his own. funny thing is that the caucasian culture is all borrowed…
i want to scream at this man…and tell him that he’s not only ignorant, he’s in the process of attributing to his daughter’s ignorance of who she is. shouldn’t that be considered child abuse? to prevent the child from broadening her horizons…children are so resilient, and they are a sponge for knowledge. all they want is to learn…and he’s preventing that in his own flesh and blood in the name of love. what else is he going to do in the name of love? “i love my child so much that to prevent her from getting hurt ever, i’m going to never let her contact other people”. my baby cousin was brought up with 4 different languages in the house, and as a child of 3, he knew who to answer in what language…he’s an intelligent child and prefectly “adjusted”, whatever that means.
here’s Joyce Shui’s blog site…check it out and maybe leave her feedback so she knows that someone supports her…
again i say…fuckin ignorant people…
~ciao
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