Ladies and Gentlemen, Teacher, Parents and Students, welcome to my talk.
Meanwhile the year here in America I experienced a lot of new things. But one of the bad things is that few month ago I saw some students offended a boy in their age and made fun about his origins. This boy looked really helpless and didn't know how to handle such a situation. What does this teach us ? That he needed to get taught what he had to do in moments like this. What I am basically saying is that for this reason parents should prepare their children on racism. Due to I want to tell you why this is important.
Let me turn now to my arguments.
First of all by the preparation, our children will learn therefore how they have to handle in situations like that. They should not smile in the face of adversity and allow somebody to get them down.
For example if they are confronted with racism they would know that they should not get involved in it and need to look for help. Parents can warn their children that they need to devote themselves to a teacher or to the parents.
The next important argument is that by preparing children on racism parents can strengthen them so that they can appear psychically to it. By that racism, however, would not affect them too much.
For instance if they are offended, they will already have built up strength and can fight against it and possibly overcome it better.
Finally I would like to point out that parents could teach their children arguments, which they can use to prove to the racist how wrong it is to degrade somebody. Because only with influential arguments the racist will notice his bad attitude and what he cause by being prejudice.
For example the argument that every human is equal and that nobody has the right to discriminate against another person. Neither on account of his religion. Neither on account of his appearance and neither on account of his origins.
To conclude the point that I would like to make is that by preparing our children on racism they can hopefully overcome it better than without. I believe that if you want a child with a strong personality and a child, who knows how to manage racism than you should force to put this idea in place.
Thank you!