Multicultural parade
Introduction
Costume refers to a specific dressing attire that is meant to reflect something about them. The dress can be used to represent the aspect of class, professionalism, ethnicity, nationality, activity, and identify with a gender. They are worn during special events, plays, or parties. When wearing these costumes, one portrays the appearance which one represents. When people wear sure dresses, they identify with the aspect s such as culture, heritage, ethnicity, race, and nationality. Costumes might be considered demeaning if people around you fail to understand your wearing these costumes with stereotypes, which can cause discrimination rather than integration.
Body
Culture is the way of life of individuals from their ideas to customs and even their social behaviours. Religion goes to the extent of portraying the moral values and the beliefs one holds. Ethnicity, on the other hand, is the state in which one belongs to a particular society or nation in which they share a common national or even cultural tradition. They share concepts of everyday language and history. Heritage refers to the characteristics that are passed down from one generation. They refer to the traditions that are transferred from people to the others down the younger generations down the line who uphold them. The race is the grouping of individuals in distinct categories in which people share joint physical and social characteristics they can identify in society. Competition is the way people identify with social groups. Nationality is the state of belonging in a particular nation. It goes more than even about the aspect of having a legal relationship between an individual and a state. This means that one’s nationality is the country in which one comes from. It can be the country in which one is born, raised, living, or even married.
People usually conflate and use them interchangeably but confusing them and using them in different contexts wrongly. Multicultural day refers to the beliefs people from different cultures share, and the day they come out to celebrate and share different traditions. People from different cultures come out with different cultures and come together to showcase their cultures. This helped maintain the people’s lifestyle and share the people’s way of life. They are mostly held within specific countries and international days the days designated by the united nations to observe particular events that are supposed to promote awareness, which will help the organization meet its objectives. The organization was built to promote world peace, which other factors which contribute to peace hence the creation of these days. They are celebrated all over the world, and they are generally formal celebrations.
The case study saw Ms Morrison telling the students to bring their national costume for the cultural parade. Two students Keisha and Emily had a different idea of the cultural show. They were then told to come in unique costumes. Emily was a white student who had come with sports uniforms while Keisha was an African American student who pulled out her favourite jeans and sweatshirt from her bag. Ms Morrison expressed her gratitude toward their efforts. Still, she was disappointed to inform them that they would not walk on the cultural parade because their costumes did not represent their cultural heritage.it was had for her to explain to them. After all, they insisted that the dresses they had served their culture. What Keisha carried was the typical day-to-day outfit. As for Emily, sports uniforms did not represent anyone’s culture as anyone can relate to sports, and it is practised worldwide.
Conclusion
Research and educational knowledge is related to teaching and learning in the multicultural society and also inequity in education. This is very evident because, in schools, we come together and interact without any form of discrimination, and in this, we can learn each other’s culture and accept each other the way we are.