We used to have a popular children song that contained the line "A child below the equator will often become a beggar". The intention was good, the song was rec

We used to have a popular children song that contained the line "A child below the equator will often become a beggar". The intention was good, the song was recorded to help poor African people, which in my mind were always starving and had flies on their face. I'm glad they changed that sentence and that sparked a lot of awareness but it's crazy how you can just grow up and think this is normal, in retrospect. As a child I was really like "How can you not feel those flies!". Crazy right? I still wonder if they know it's Christmas time over there, since it never snows there (yeah, facepalm every year around Christmas indeed)... Yes, Christmas, that party that I thought was normal, but hey, it turns out that the religion my culture is largely based on is pretty unique in acknowledging Jesus as THE prophet and there were multiple and we're fighting over this. Crazy. And we ate matzes around easter [0], and that is a tradition from the jews (who ate them fleeing from Egypt to the promised land), and with whom we share half our sacred texts, but they wanted Jesus dead in the end and apparently the promised land already had some inhabitants I learned later. I dropped it all btw, the religion and I really hope a lot of prejudice as well, although I wont pretend I'm free of it. [0]: https://blogs.transparent.com/dutch/an-unusual-dutch-easter-tradition-matzes/ https://blogs.transparent.com/dutch/an-unusual-dutch-easter-...