tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129064848004232361.post6616131007882183733..comments2023-09-18T21:43:47.885-07:00Comments on Remains of the Day: Ox YearAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748454816480995214noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129064848004232361.post-78557811623067361042009-01-29T10:04:00.000-08:002009-01-29T10:04:00.000-08:00Oh Jeez. I am apparently raising a xenophobe.All E...Oh Jeez. I am apparently raising a xenophobe.<BR/><BR/>All Eli could tell you about China is that they poisoned dogs and children and he is not allowed--as much as I can control--to have anything made there.<BR/><BR/>Some diversity, huh?<BR/><BR/>(It makes me pine for my years close enough to San Francisco to go to Chinatown to fix any dancing dragon jones.)<BR/><BR/>Consider me chastened.Lee Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01147787484739829179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129064848004232361.post-37459555393686634672009-01-28T06:55:00.000-08:002009-01-28T06:55:00.000-08:00I think that having conversations about how other ...I think that having conversations about how other people live is a great start. It is wonderful you make that effort to recognize Chinese New Year, etc., but I also suspect you talk about other folks' families, languages, beliefs, cultures, etc as it comes up in daily life. <BR/><BR/>Our boys' bedroom is decorated in maps--maps everywhere-- and that is often a start in conversation. If they read about a person from Bolivia or hear about the gondolas in Italy or meet one of Peter's classmates from Sudan-- they often run to their world maps to figure out where that person or thing comes from. Of course, we dream of living abroad with the boys at some point. <BR/><BR/>My sister who has college-aged kids told them that she was totally hands-off about where they decided to attend college, what they major in, etc. but the one thing she absolutely insists on-- they must study abroad for at least a term. She absolutely had to sit on her oldest to make it happen, but in the end, he had an absolutely wonderful term abroad in Scotland. Currently her daughter is in Sevilla, Spain, studying at the same university where I spent a full school year 20 years ago (and it forever altered my world view).sarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02800138092758321499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129064848004232361.post-63325608453140770712009-01-27T17:25:00.000-08:002009-01-27T17:25:00.000-08:00That sounds like a wonderful, beautiful effort to ...That sounds like a wonderful, beautiful effort to me.<BR/><BR/>(And damn that man in the yellow hat.)Lone Star Mahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14339475499304565638noreply@blogger.com