I like the candy bowl idea that was presented in class today (I'm sorry, I don't know who said it). We're all chocolate (American) but our filling (heritage) may differ. I may be caramel and nuts, while someone else is all nuts or raisins, nuts, and crisped rice!
My only issue with focusing on this at all is that it still serves to create divisions within people. Someone may not like nuts (just like the tomato in the salad) and use physical differences as a basis for discrimination or prejudice against a certain race/ethnicity.
In response to the over analyzing of the salad bowl metaphor, I am an English major and one of the things we learn is that there really is no such thing as over analyzing metaphors. If there is any evidence at all that a certain metaphor, word, phrase, passage, etc. can be taken in a different way, you can bet that it will be taken that way. It will also be taken in ways that we can't even think of on an individual level. You have to remember that these are kids being taught the salad bowl concept. I remember being a kid and filling in the blanks of things I didn't understand with other things that made sense to me. Looking back, I know they are completely ridiculous and don't make sense, but it did to my little brain. Sometimes you really do need to spell things out for kids. I also agree that we need to give kids the tools to learn how to think and read critically, however.
Victoria Rader - Post 3
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