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Kazzle 
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 9:10am |
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spicy food
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2261307/Toddlers-who-dislike-spicy-food-racist,-say-report.html
so now because my child says yuck to a food she is racist.
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Natalie_G
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 10:41am |
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How stupid, honestly, I just cant stop laughing at how stupid this is.
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 11:21am |
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yeah it's pretty ridiculous lol
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Roksana
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 11:42am |
In that case my DD is a racist towards Indian's because some days while eating curry she says "I dont like it" or "Yuky".....OH Wait she is an Indian??? 
Thats just stupid I am sorry!!
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 12:22pm |
That is stupid, spicey foods take a while to get the taste for them. i'm not calling my children rasists if they don't like something from overseas that is spicey - it is probably too hot for them.
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 12:28pm |
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This was one of the comments below the article...lol
My dog doesn't like spicey food either. I am glad he is nuetered so the hate can stop with him.
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 1:06pm |
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OMG. Some people have too much time and not enough brain cells (and most of them work in the public sector).
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 9:50pm |
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The comments below are actually mostly funny! I do wonder if the Telegraph has blown it out of proportion though. This bit actually concerns me more: "It alerts playgroup leaders that even babies can not be ignored in the drive to root out prejudice as they can "recognise different people in their lives"." that makes me somewhat nervous. Are they going to try to get all children to treat all adults/other people the same? What about perverted people you feel uncomfortable around? What about preferring your parent over your care provider? Are they going to have "concerns" about that too?
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Posted: 01 August 2008 at 11:58pm |
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Yep - ridiculous!!
The UK has gone completely nuts over some of this stuff. Do you know in some counties they are not even allowed to refer to 'Christmas' for fear of upsetting some religions - they have to call Christmas 'Winter Holidays'
And...in some schools they are not allowed to recognise Christian celebrations such as Easter - but they HAVE to recgonise muslim (and other religions) festivals.
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Posted: 02 August 2008 at 8:37am |
well now i've heard everything!
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Posted: 02 August 2008 at 8:55am |
 Spirals wrote:
Yep - ridiculous!!
The UK has gone completely nuts over some of this stuff. Do you know in some counties they are not even allowed to refer to 'Christmas' for fear of upsetting some religions - they have to call Christmas 'Winter Holidays'
And...in some schools they are not allowed to recognise Christian celebrations such as Easter - but they HAVE to recgonise muslim (and other religions) festivals.
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Now I find this offensive and racist towards my culture and beliefs, it seems if your christian and white everyone is entitled to have a go at you, but if your black and non-christian you can turn around and say its racist. Makes a mockery of the term. IMO
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Posted: 02 August 2008 at 9:06am |
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Exactly fleury. In a multi-cultural country that was originally predonimantly christian - they now can't recognise their own beliefs in some areas. Shocking isn't it.
Edited to say - don't get me wrong, I'm not at all racist, I just don't agree with a lot of the rules that have been made over there.
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Posted: 02 August 2008 at 11:34am |
Roksana wrote:
In that case my DD is a racist towards Indian's because some days while eating curry she says "I dont like it" or "Yuky".....OH Wait she is an Indian???
Thats just stupid I am sorry!! |
ROFLMAO!!!!
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Posted: 03 August 2008 at 8:03pm |
Like everyone else has said, how ridiculous! Seems bizarre that they're even worrying about it - maybe it's just where I've worked but I've been in childcare for 8 years and I've never seen any racist behaviour from preschoolers.
So what about adults who don't like particular kinds of foods, are they racist too? My husband doesn't like sushi, should I be worried about this? 
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Posted: 03 August 2008 at 9:04pm |
AuntieSarah wrote:
Like everyone else has said, how ridiculous! Seems bizarre that they're even worrying about it - maybe it's just where I've worked but I've been in childcare for 8 years and I've never seen any racist behaviour from preschoolers.
So what about adults who don't like particular kinds of foods, are they racist too? My husband doesn't like sushi, should I be worried about this? |
LOL. Definately cause for worry 
Seriously though - here in NZ, we're safe from this craziness - this is a UK news story.
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Posted: 03 August 2008 at 9:20pm |
Wow, I must be horrendously racists as I don't like any spices or curry whatsoever. 
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Posted: 04 August 2008 at 11:23am |
Oh Fiona...should I be offended?? LOL 
When I was growing up in Bangladesh (Majority Muslim) we had a public holiday for each of the major religions there. So we had Xmas Off, Diwali Durga Puja (Hindu) Off, Buddha's Birthday Off and ofcourse all Muslim holidays off. I thought there was no better way to show respect to other religions.
In other countries they dont have that, but thats cool I dont think that that makes a country racist! I take a day off (If I want too) for Eid and Diwali each year as I want DD to know that this is a special day.
I think people need to stop focusing soo much on these kinda things. For God sake I hate when people fight over religion. I HATE IT!!
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Posted: 04 August 2008 at 9:28pm |
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Me too Roksana. There's nothing like religion for causing hatred and wars, it's very sad.
Love the idea of a day off for every religious celebration though - we should campaign for that here *lol*
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