Barak Bruerd

Blending

Posted on September 07, 2009 by Barak in Africa | No Comments

I love watching kids playing together.  Perhaps your experience is different, but in mine, young children do not conceptualize differences in race until later in life, and usually the concept has to be taught.  Differences in skin color are taken in the same stride as differences in hair color or height or favorite flavor of ice cream.  Even language seems to pose little  barrier as children easily slip into gestures or simply drag one another around by the hand from one game to another.  The conflicts of childhood are, of course, ever present, but they remain isolated to those things that historically plague humankind; learning to share, say sorry, and act in consideration for one another.

Tags: Children, Zambia

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