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In reply to the discussion: Gov. Ralph Northam Calls Slaves 'Indentured Servants' In Interview, Gets Corrected [View all]Aristus
(66,367 posts)I don't know if that gave me an advantage over civilian public schools. Or if I just had conscientious teachers. My fourth grade teacher was white, and she was married to an African-American man. So maybe she was more attuned to racism in her life than other white teachers.
Anyway, we spent many days of the school year learning about other cultures and societies. After we finished a course on, say, the Bedouins of the Middle East, we would all have a lunch party in which we were served that culture's foods, and were encouraged to wear costumes that simulated that culture's traditional clothing. For the Bedouin party, the boys and girls were separated into different classrooms, and we ate segregated by gender, just like in real life. This event made the local paper.
Other cultures we studied included India, during which I tried curry for the first time. YUM! And certain East African tribes, where we learned to play the kalimba, or mbira, a traditional 'thumb-piano'.