Multicultural American Child Day 2024 is on Saturday, June 8, 2024: Any ideas for multicultural snacks which the children could try at snack time?

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Just serve a variety of healthy snacks on the menu. Labeling a food as 'cultural' is jut plain 'labeling' or calling it 'different than what we eat'.

EDIT: Many in our school found it quite offensive that on 'German Day' the school served sausage and kraut. Or 'Hispanic Day" lunch of tacos and beans. "Black History Month' gave us fried chicken, greens, and watermelon. The Irish got Stew and Biscuits. These 'multicultural meals' just reinforced cultural stereotypes.

** Now, at snack time we serve hummus dip with carrots (middle east) or sometimes the typical ranch dressing. Or we serve chips and salsa (hispanic), or pita and yogurt dip (greek, turk). Pretzels and honey-mustard dip (german), cucumbers with a yogurt dill dip (greek), roasted pumpkin seeds (a meat alternative)(pepitas). We have made 4th of July patriot cups (blue jello on bottom, some strawberries, and yogurt or kool whip for the topper)(american). **

These 'ethnic foods' are served as part of our regular menu not some labeled 'multicultural heritage snack' on a 'special day'. My class has an average of 4-6 different ethnic groups, so we are very diverse and we see ourselves as one race, the human race.

10 Points for the best answers on some questions about the American family!?

1. What defines the American family? Well, families are very diverse in the US. You have families with a mom and a dad, some with just a mom, some with just a dad, some with a stepparent, and some were a grandparent raises the child. The American family is very diverse these days, many American children have parents of two different cultures or religions. Mixed race is growing and more children for example are having a White mother and Mexican indigenous father. No matter how the family looks most American families want the best for their children and for their family to be happy and safe and successful. Many American families base their lives on hard work.

2. Traditional roles have changed a lot. Women used to stay home, but now women work and the infants go to daycare. Personally, I don't like this and think women (I am female) should stay home until the child goes to preschool at age 4. Our households used to be much more male dominated but now women are sharing a lot of that power. Also, before single parents were rare but now they are common.

3. Perhaps my parents don't because they never divorced. Divorce is a serious problem in the US. I think my family is traditional because my mama didn't work until I was older and my mama makes homemade food.

4. My family is very multicultural and is mostly Italian and Latino (Puerto Rican and Mexican). The roles in our family are based on gender because that is how Mexican and Italian culture is. Even though we are American we tend to go back to our roots.

5. Society definitely has acknowledged a change. More and more children are born to single parents and to diverse families.

What makes Americans so susceptible to evangelicalism and creationism?

A lot of things, really, but the Puritanical misanthropia is still very strong here in some people, that's for sure. You have to remember though that this is a very young, and very multicultural, country. My family fled to the far north to escape forced christianization in the mid/late 900's. The vast majority of them live in the same valley to this very day. Those few of us who do not usually return home when we are aged so we can die and be buried near our ancestors. Families like mine with an easily traceable history going back many centuries are not too terribly uncommon in Europe. While I live in the US now, I was raised with a very strong sense of who I am, where I came from and the faith of my ancestors. I was given the gift of a powerful tribal memory through my family.

Americans tend not to have that. I've met a lot of them who excitedly tell me that they, too, are "Norwegian". Then they add "and German, and French and Dutch and English and Native American and...." They're so mixed they really couldn't have that sense of connection even if they wanted it. Some don't even have any clue at all where their families are from originally so they don't know who their ancestors are, let alone who those ancestors may have honored or worshiped. Since Evangelicals are aggressive proselytizers and it is in human nature to at least spiritually ponder, they tend to snatch up those whose tribal memory is too tangled to unravel or has been lost to the mists of time. Once that first one from a family group makes the leap they indoctrinate their children and instill faith through fear/coersion (not a true faith to Pagan and Heathen groups, btw). The cycle perpetuates from there.

I think the lack of a clear cultural identity for most Americans and the loss of their own tribal memory combined with almost continuous external pressures and a desire to "blend" with the dominant society make it much more difficult for someone to not fall prey to well-meaning (I hope) evangelicals and their occasionally/mostly aggressive tactics. It's rather sad, but not anything I blame most of them for, really.