While I am proud to say that I currently enjoy a fulfilling career as a professional Archaeologist, I have a hard time relating to my family members as an adult because they refuse to listen when I try to explain my relatively unconventional vocation. Since my decision to refuse communion during Christmas mass years ago, I am treaded like an awkward, familial oddity-and by my father in particular-a woefully misguided heretic. Like myself, the people in my family were never taught to withhold judgment toward those who operated outside of our Italian Catholic faith.
I believe wholeheartedly that students be introduced to the subject of Anthropology at an early age. This field should be an established part of the curriculum offered to students in order to prepare them for the harsh reality that is cultural diversity. Just because you where raised to believe one thing, does not mean that it is absolute truth. This generation is one that is so interwoven, and exposed, yet our children continue to exhibit a lack of respect for the proverbial “Other” and an inability to discern for themselves what is truth and what is fabrication for the sake of achieving a demonstrably fallacious sense of relevance and influence.
These days cultural appropriation runs rampant on social media and privileged ignorance is allowed to masquerade as social change, when in reality not one of these influencers could explain the distinction between race vs ethnicity or nature vs nurture. Parents try so hard to protect their children from exposure to a potentially harmful influence, that they ultimately end up depriving them of developing a healthy level of skepticism and mutual respect.
Submitted September 11, 2022 at 02:56AM by Cultural-Mechanic849 https://ift.tt/ZvpxPJ7
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