school xmas plays offending other cultures?

Question

im 24 my brother is 5, i took part in xmas plays when i was his age do you think is pc gone mad when his xmas play this year involves postman pat and spongebob?? so it dosant offend other cultures/religeons?

Answer 1

How can you offend other cultures by living and acting in your own? It is insane.

Answer 2

I thinks it so sad. That America has gotten so sad. Kids could be kids and parents could enjoy watching what their kids do what they did with innocence.

I think PC crap has its good but has gotten way out of control. If you dont like something you can just clam "I was offended" find a newsperson and cry cause a public out cry you,will get money and publicity and you will get what you wanted to
begain with. Its like teaching someone to throw a fit and then makeing that fit legal.

I am sending my childern to private schools where they still are able to be kids have the christmas songs and the nativity secene. and learn to rescpet the difference of people and see them as that people. I went to private school and my husband went to public and it is outstanding the difference. The PC lecture that he recieved turned him judgemental and I am really not and have to correct him.

So in the end PC really doesnt even matter. I think even offends everyone bc everyone has the right to express their religion. Put up a minora for Hannakah, Nativity scene for christians, I dont think Islam has a represntaive though. but they do have respect for those other religions, well most of them esp. what I was taught when I took a class in college in compartive religions.

Put them up together there. at the end of the day people will be people and nature will take its course. When the day comes people will be judgemental and arent PC they are going to go after clothes, names wait they already do that. hmm.

The day will come that people will have enough of censoring themseleves esp. when they never ment to and saying I am sorry will not be enough and the courts are so burrden with lawsuits, that people will say wait one minute this isnt right. I hope its soon. Keep the good part of PC letting people be seen as people and celebrate the difference and stop highligting and put down other cultures to put down another and calling it progress.

Answer 3

It's a disgrace. If we had moved to another country with a different predominant religion, we would no doubt be expected to abide by the rules and regulations and sensibilities of that country, and fair enough.

I'm very glad my daughter goes to a small, Church of England school which has religious assembly every day and a play with a Christmas message (nativity every other year; this year it's Scrooge) every year without fail. When the new hall was opened, the Bishop blessed it. But she also learns about all other religions and cultures in R.E. and knows that different people celebrate different occasions.

Britain (can't call it Great Britain) is going to hell on a handcart. When I was in junior school, one of my friends was a Jehovah's Witness - her parents just removed her from assemblies and Christmas celebrations without making any fuss, as was their perogative. No big deal.

Answer 4

Thumbs down is for whilst i think of somebody is being completely ridiculous or downright impolite and insulting. If human beings are not getting a `thumbs down` for promulgating racial hatred, lets say, different individuals will verify out the respond and think of that I and all of us accept as true with or have got here across no insult or undesirable feeling contained interior the respond. that would not look reliable to something of he international and makes us all seem heartless or indifferent. various the garbage spouted out in this area is disgusting to assert the least and to enable it bypass `unthumbed` could be morally incorrect. Now, reporting is a different be counted. I a hundred% have faith in freedom of speech, yet I even have had the main harmless solutions bumped off with the help of the religista. How approximately, "specific a touch" as `not an answer` ??? EDIT: a minimum of in case you have become thumbs in any direction, you already know each physique is analyzing what you assert, whether they don`t like it.

Answer 5

Are you sure there isn't a Nativity scene in it too? As an infant school teacher, I have to admit that I have included many different characters in Christmas plays in the past - mainly so as not to keep regurgitating the same old stuff. It's a way of keeping it new, fresh and entertaining for the children and their parents. And I have always included a nativity, so wait and see - you might just be surprised...

Answer 6

Well I`m pleased to say that my sons school are still hosting a fully fledged nativity play this year with baby jesus,shepherds and all the usual trimmings!!
There are children with other cultures/relions that attend the school and it is their parents choice to either let them take part or not to attend the school play.
I think this is the way it should be,if they don`t want to be part of it thats just fine but why should their beliefs stop us from displaying ours.

Answer 7

Hi there Kevin B, What is happening to Britain? Now they are starting to take away our childrens' xmas plays aarghhh! It is definitely P.C. gone mad.
In Britain we have a whole set of rules and customs about different parts of our lives. Due to the socially constructed Political Correctness, we attempt not to say or do anything that will cause offence in order to try and be a tolerant and accepting nation.
When we are abroad we try to have some respect for other people’s customs. So we expect those who come here as visitors or residents equally to respect our traditions and way of life. However, the majority of them do not. They flaunt, preach and force their belief systems and traditions whilst continuing to speak in their native language without making any attempts to learn ours. It is not expected that they abandon their customs etc, but it is with respect that we would want them to make an effort to honour our homeland by making an effort to integrate with us. Everyone but the British is ‘protected’ under a mask of Political Correctness. British people are insulted without consequence, and are restricted from practising their religion. Yet we are drowned in a diversity of cultures, religions and beliefs, and some can seem to be offensive and alien to us. British people’s experience of these in their own communities leads them to be suspicious of the un-known, antagonistic; and a few to be racist. Diversity does not work under these conditions. We need a set of rules to be put into place that will enable Britain to hold on to its identity and traditions. ‘It is the acceptance of the rules that makes any society function. It holds people together and provides the glue for social cohesion. Anything goes leads to everything going. And what will go is our sense of belonging, our identity and our willingness to whole-heartedly welcome difference and diversity.’

Answer 8

I agree it's an issue. I sort of feel like my culture is being offended since all of these changes are being made. It's making it much more comercial by taking the meaning away in my opinion. I am much more offended by spongebob than someones religious beliefs.

Answer 9

i think the main reason for that isn't so much that other religions actually ARE offended by it as the fact that when the atheistic agenda ridden PC-brigade start spouting that no one stands up against them

we need to grow some balls and FAST before it is too late and call them on it

as for shops refusing to sell nativity because 'folks might be offended' - why not consider this - if someone doesn't like it they wont buy it. we don't NEED to be treated like infants who don't know what we want and don't want.

our civil liberties are at stake and we need to reclaim that lost ground before it is too late

and lets start with the nativity story which after all IS the reason for the season

Answer 10

We celebrate it all.

Specifically: the other cultures in our community want to have their 'special holidays' recognized in the schools, so we have accommodated. The trade off is, we must also be able to celebrate our Canadian cultures traditional celebration: Christmas.

The kids learn about ALL of them. Christmas, Hanukkah, Chinese New Year, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Easter,Valentines Day - it's a whole year of constant celebration now (perhaps why they're not getting much learning done?? grr)

Answer 11

I understand how you, and apparently a lot of Y!A users feel about this issue, but as a Jew, I have a different perspective. Our family is tolerant and respectful of Christmas. We are patient with that fact that the entire month of December our children are asked to do projects involving writing stories about what their Christmas trees look like and what they want Santa to bring them. We do this because one day just ONE we are invited in (at our requests) to throw the kids a Hanukkah party.

The play is entirely different though. When our kids are in a play, we expect that it should reflect something about themselves, just as it does about their classmates. We aren't asking you to ignore your traditions, we just want a little respect for ours...we want our kids to feel like you all will show us the patience, tolerance, and respect for our beliefs that we show to yours...and that their school is a place where they are just as important and included as their classmates. Is it really offensive for us to ask this?