Do you teach children your culture and beliefs?

Question

Do you believe it is important to teach children the culture of ancestors and at sametime to not teach they are hated and will never be accepted in the world because of who they are?

Many of mypeople make children ashamed and teach them they are not valuable to all people. How must a child feel being told these things? I teach my children all things are possible for them, and same time teach about my ancestors and our culture. TO be proud of where they come from but to see the future for them with education and hard work, like everyone.

Wolf I like your words. Many people share the world and we must learn to live together. My family has friends of several races, we do not teach our children to blame their problems on someone else. They learn there is always a way, to be quiet inside yourself and listen and they will hear what is the best way for them. I feel so sad that many of the children they were raised with are finding these answers not inside themselves but in alcohol.

Answer 1

i grew up in a home where i was not taught to hate people of different races or cultures. now if at the same time, someone from a different cultural or ethnic background grew up being told that i hated them because they were different, then our relationships would not make it off the ground. i teach my children that the world is diverse and that is the beauty of it and that we are not to hate anyone because we don't understand their culture. if i ever saw my own children picking on someone at school or elsewhere for the above reasons, it would literally make me cry. i think children need to be taught that there is love and that not all people are cruel and hateful. if people teach their children that they are hated, then those children will grow up to hate the ones they think hate them.

Answer 2

I understand where you are coming from I'm American Indian and had many of the same things happen to me as I was growing up, the one thing that I have learned is to stay on the good red road and try not to stray form that path, teach the children to be proud of who they are and where they came form.instill in them an understanding for all the races in the world. The teaching of the American Indian is that everything is related and intertwined with the same life force at is our mother the earth.

Answer 3

Dear Wisewomanwalking,
A culture in biology is composed of living organisms and isolated a source of nutrients for study or such use. Human cultures are that same kind of thing. Your children will take nourishment from their environment. You are a huge part of that environment early-on, but your influence will lessen as time passes and they take more cues from outside the family. Your problem is the same one for which the great rabbi of two thousand years ago advised his followers to be "wise as serpents and innocent as doves".

Innocence, that is harmlessness, is the chief defense of doves. The chief defense of serpents is to blend in with their surroundings when danger threatens. Subsequent defense tactics are far more dramatic and, when the danger is something bigger and smarter, almost certain death.

My heart goes out to you because I too have a child. My "child" though, is grown now, and beautiful - and being stalked by a maniac to whom she is merely an object in his twisted fantasy. I fear for her as you must fear for your children. She will always be a woman, and will always be in danger of such maniacs. I, however, do not believe that I should have taught her that all men will be that way toward her. I do not believe that you should teach your children that they'll "never" be accepted for what they are.

Whatever you teach them, I wish you and them the happiest, most fulfilling lives.

Answer 4

I believe it is extremely important to teach future generations of their heritage and culture of the past to help them understand values and morals and what it is their family stood for and why. I also think it is important to teach children to respect other peoples religions even if it differs from their own as no one religion is right for everybody each must choose to be an individual.

Answer 5

I plan on doing what my mothers and fathers did; educate approximately each fundamental faith to the excellent of my potential. Ignorance breeds worry and hate and I suppose we are all worse off for it. Besides, religion method not anything if a character simply believes considering that that's what their mothers and fathers filled down their throats. ADDED: My mothers and fathers are each lay ministers within the Anglican Church, my father has performed a distance schooling theology direction and might be ordained if he desired to be. They took us to church each Sunday till we have been 10, then we might prefer if we desired to move or no longer. At age sixteen, having no notion in God I taught Sunday college at their church for a million yr as there was once no person else who might do it. I was once additionally an regulate server. Now I am a Buddhist and my son watches me pray two x day-to-day.

Answer 6

Gypsie families are not normally looked upon as terrific. Still, my great grandmother was born in a gypsy Italian caravan. she was extremely psychic and I still have her cyrstal ball, from which she saw the future. My grandmother was psychic, my mother was, and I am. I have taught my sons to appreciate their 'gifts' not to be paid for them, but, to help in legal matters that they and I DO see. Meanwhile, education is the way to teach children that all cultures are important and have important things to teach us. Interestingly, both my sons are considered 'white' (I claim to be humanoid, myself) and both of them are married to people who are not considered white. children are a beautiful blend of both cultures. All people deserve respect, unless they are totally offensive. Then, those people deserve pity for their lack of loving. No matter who you are, where you came from, you can get to where you want to be........with enough hard work on your own part.

Answer 7

It is essential to teach our children of our culture, our ancestors, and our beliefs. And to open them to the experience of other people's cultures, ancestors, and beliefs. I like the Presbyterian phrase of "unity in diversity."

My father lied to me for years and years and years about my ancestry. I knew he was Native American, but he lied about where his parents came from, his tribal affiliation, everything. He gave me every deadend he could, and I spent years searching not-too-fruitfully for information about my family. Then my uncle (whom I've only seen 4 times since I was a baby) told me with what tribe he and my dad are enrolled, and that opened up everything! Then he told me he was sorry he ever told me I was an Indian (like I wouldn't know by looking at him?). He never got over his shame of being what he was. He was tragic, actually.

Answer 8

I think it is important to teach your children what you yourself believe, but also to encourage them to have their own beliefes. I have grown up in 2 totally different house holds. I one (my main) Who ever you are and what ever is your beliefs is just part of you. You don't HAVE to believe what everyone else does, believe what feels right in your heart. A person has a right to choose what they believe in. This is not the midevil world that we live in.

Answer 9

The importance of knowledge itself is the most important lesson for young'uns. When they understand this and begin to ask questions to gain knowledge is the time to teach what they ask and make past cultures and beliefs of your own and all others available.

Answer 10

I think that people who use things like racial background and heritage as excuses for why they can't succeed, don't want it bad enough.

If the child grows up in your home, they'll learn about the culture from you, if you continue to practice your different cultural traditions.