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Don't paint the kid black and leave the nativity play as-is? If the goal is to teach them that the people in the biblical stories weren't all white I'm sure the
by throwing-away 3y ago
Don't paint the kid black and leave the nativity play as-is? If the goal is to teach them that the people in the biblical stories weren't all white I'm sure there's plenty of other better ways than putting one of them in blackface. Traditions are not sacred, and can and do change over time.
- creshal 3y ago> Don't paint the kid black Why, other than because Americans have negative connotations with the practice? > I'm sure there's plenty of other better ways We're open for suggestions.
- throwing-away 3y ago> Why, other than because Americans have negative connotations with the practice? But it's not just people from the US. There are protests every year in Europe against various traditions which involve blackface (eg. Black Peter). There are plenty of people who protest and given the colonial legacies of some European countries it's pretty clear to me that this is not just invented racism/conflict from "the American left". As a European myself I understand the complaints of US defaultism and agree with plenty of them but this simply not one of them.
- creshal 3y agoFrom Wikipedia: > The George Floyd protests and subsequent Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the Netherlands in 2020 appear to have had a significant effect on the acceptance of Zwarte Piet's traditional appearance among the Dutch public. A June 2020 survey saw a drop in support for leaving the character's appearance unaltered. 47 percent of those surveyed supported the traditional appearance, compared to 71 percent in a similar survey held in November 2019. Perfectly organic local protests and totally not fuelled by US activism, indeed.