Spotted Dick & School...
Steve
bboyminn at yahoo.com
Thu May 8 01:53:44 UTC 2008
--- Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:
>
> Melody_wood14
>
> > I would not recommend using spoted dick
> > on a school project.
>
> bboyminn:
>
> > That's ridiculous, wasn't the whole purpose of the project
> > about cultural awareness and cultural differences.
>
> ....
>
>...
> Lee:
>
> Gotta disagree with ya here, bboyminn. This is NOT just "one
> man's opinion". You can count me in, too :-)
> ...
>
> However, if the report was for the teacher's eyes only, then
> I agree she missed the whole point of her own assignment.
>
> CJ
>
bboyminn:
I was under the impression that it was not just a report, but
more of an understanding of foreign lands through their food.
So, I suspect that the boy brought some real home-made Spotted
Dick to school for his class to enjoy, or at least taste. His
other classmate found British foods of their own and brought
those, or possibly someone brought Chinese food, someone
brought African food, etc....
I've seen small international diversity fairs like this at
some schools where the whole approach is about food from
different lands. It seems very common.
In this case, the whole idea that Spotted Dick would be
laughed at in the USA, but was very common and popular
in the UK, did the job perfectly, by showing a very good
desert that had an odd name to the American view. I thought
this was the whole point of the thing. In a sense, the
point of cultural diversity is to realize that we can't
measure the world with ourselves at the center. Other people
and other cultures see the world very differently than
we do, and this illustrated that perfectly.
Still, we knew it was going to get a laugh, and be...how
can I say this...culturally questionable. But still, I think
the teacher WAY over reacted.
Just a thought.
Steve/bboyminn
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