Today I read a news article in the Seattle Times about multicultural conflict and how we should start bridging the gap between racists. (http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1473157&date=19920131&query=intercultural+conflict) It really got me thinking about race and different cultures are in reality different. They talked about, in the article, how we need to not only educate students about different cultures but we also need to start educating teachers as well. I feel that I have to agree, if a teacher is going to teach a student not to judge other student then they have to stop judging as well. Racism has been something that has been passed down from generation to generation and now we feel the need to try and put a stop to it all; but in order to try and put a stop to it all we need to work on the people who we look up to, our teachers and parents. “Many agreed that efforts to eliminate interracial conflict among young people have to include adults.” It all starts in our homes and then makes a way to school. One thing that I feel that we should really work on is when a person from a different culture does something wrong you automatically have a grudge against that whole culture but when someone from your own race does something wrong you only get made at them for a second. I feel that we should take our time to get to know someone from a different race to we can learn and hopefully in the future there can be little to no racism.
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