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- From: aaldoubo@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Shaqeeqa)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
- Subject: Re: Secular??? (was: ACLU/AJC Menorah Police?)
- Message-ID: <4744@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 09:28:46 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.175723.8150@sarah.albany.edu> <765333d8151344t199@witsend.uucp> <israel.725102377@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of Colorado at Denver
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- In article <israel.725102377@unixg.ubc.ca> israel@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert B. Israel) writes:
- >
- >The school in question is in Kamloops, BC, which has practically no
- >Jewish population. The non-Christian half of the class would, I
- >presume, be Sikh, Muslim, Buddhist, etc. Probably not a single Jew
- >among them. So they stick in a reference to Hannukah and call
- >themselves multicultural.
-
- There are sikhs and Muslims in the same room? :-)
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- About the reference to Hannukah, I remember back in grade school
- when we were taught to sing songs about Hannukah ... you can't
- expect grade school kids to be multicultural but the educational
- system tries to emphasize recognition for other ethnic backgrounds,
- however weak, other than Christian. I wonder how long it will be
- until Muslim ones will be introduced or appreciated ...
-
- Anisa
- "The best kind - angry, rebellious, critical - a renegade ..."
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