Last lesson of the day.
Sep. 15th, 2012 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckTim pokes Alex with a pushpin/thumbtack liberated from the notice board. Alex is outraged: "You fat old Jew." That's the best he can come up with. There's silence for a short moment. I say what I always say when my pupils confuse nationality, race, religious affiliation or sexual orientation with an insult. Outside, Alex tells me that it's not ok to use Jew in that way because he's German and there is Hitler and all that. "So, it would be okay for non-Germans?" He has got the sense to know that the expected answer is "No". (And maybe I should have informed him that Cartman is not an appropriate role-model.)
Back inside, the discussion turns to Middle Eastern politics and the origins of Christianity and Islam. Sara makes a disgusted face when she realizes there might be Jews at school with her. She doesn't know any, but she is half-Lebanese and that's why she doesn't like them. Her father told her about Israel, she says. Hülya has a more philosophical outlook: "We were all Jews once", she states. Marvin helpfully explains to Sara that this about how religions developed and not meant to insult her.
Marco asks me: "Have you seen The Jew walking around town?"
I'm confused. He is convinced that I must know who he is talking about: "That guy, he dresses like a Jew: He's got a cap." (I've never seen a kippah in this part of town.) "And he's got a long white shirt and a long beard, that's a Jew, right?" Sara butts in, "You moron, that's the Salafi Muslim." Marco doesn't believe her: "But he's got red hair!" Sara explains that the guy didn't start out Muslim, but became one later in life.
There is a brief discussion that there are Muslims, but also Jews and Christians who dress in a special way, but not all of them do and that's why you can't always recognize in which God someone believes.
Then we compared the answers for the grammar exercise.
Back inside, the discussion turns to Middle Eastern politics and the origins of Christianity and Islam. Sara makes a disgusted face when she realizes there might be Jews at school with her. She doesn't know any, but she is half-Lebanese and that's why she doesn't like them. Her father told her about Israel, she says. Hülya has a more philosophical outlook: "We were all Jews once", she states. Marvin helpfully explains to Sara that this about how religions developed and not meant to insult her.
Marco asks me: "Have you seen The Jew walking around town?"
I'm confused. He is convinced that I must know who he is talking about: "That guy, he dresses like a Jew: He's got a cap." (I've never seen a kippah in this part of town.) "And he's got a long white shirt and a long beard, that's a Jew, right?" Sara butts in, "You moron, that's the Salafi Muslim." Marco doesn't believe her: "But he's got red hair!" Sara explains that the guy didn't start out Muslim, but became one later in life.
There is a brief discussion that there are Muslims, but also Jews and Christians who dress in a special way, but not all of them do and that's why you can't always recognize in which God someone believes.
Then we compared the answers for the grammar exercise.
