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I recently made the decision that I had held off making for the last few months. The look on my 10-year-old son's face as he walked through the door after coming home from school settled the issue. He had endured yet another day of being called a "mushroom" and a "mush-head" because he has sported a mushroom hairstyle since we came from India in January.
I would love, for example, to wear Indian ethnic attire to school. When I asked fellow East Indian colleagues whether they ever wore sarees to school, one said only for Halloween and the other said that it would look too "unprofessional."I feel, however, my position as substitute teacher is too precarious for me to wear my sarees. The last thing I would want is to be pulled up for turning up at work in "unprofessional" clothes. Since I do not have the courage to defy conventions and expectations, the only compromise I have made in my attire is that I wear trousers with my Indian tops.See the full content of this document
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Pressures to Conform
A boy, his mother and the difficulty of multiculturalism
By Deepa NarulaI recently made the decision that I had held off making for the last few months. The look on my 10-year-old son's face as he walked through the door...See the full content of this document
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