This morning after a meeting, I was chatting with one of my colleagues, Kate, about her daughter and how she has transferred her daughter from a private to public school in order to expose her to more diverse populations. Kate is from rural Australia and the father of her daughter is Samoan. Kate mentioned that she often gets rude comments from people about how her daughter looks different to her. Her daughter is now eleven years old and when I asked her about how her daughter copes with discrimination (if any), our conversation wrung out this really beautiful story:
Her daughter's birthday is around Ramadan (Muslim fasting period) and she wanted to hand out cake to her class. However being aware that some of her classmates are fasting and will not be able to have cake along with the rest of the children during class, she asked her Mother whether she could also bring some plastic containers. This is so that her Muslim classmates would be able to take them home and eat it when they break fast later in the day.
This is such a beautiful story, we both got a bit teary. So much heart at such a young age :')
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