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Teach your children about their heritage.
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Go as a family to events that celebrate different cultures and religions.
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Include traditions from many cultures in your family celebrations.
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Create a family environment that encourages positive discussions about
difference.
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Expose your children to many kinds of people.
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Encourage your child to get a pen pal from a different country.
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Check yourself for subtle racist attitudes, biases, or prejudices
and work to overcome them.
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- Model acceptance and appreciation of differences. Don’t
tolerate racism, bias, or prejudice.
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Educate teachers and other staff about respecting and working with
cultural differences.
- Include the
accomplishments and thinking of diverse peoples in all subjects. Incorporate
information from many cultures into the curriculum.
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Provide activities that increase students’ awareness and acceptance
of differences.
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Give students opportunities to share and celebrate their own heritage.
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Include the images and voices of a variety of people in community
publications, advertisements, posters and promotional materials.
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Use local newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, etc. to educate residents
about different cultures and customs within your community.
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Celebrate many types of cultural events with a heritage festival.
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Support and expand programs that help to deepen kids’ understanding
of and appreciation for their own roots.
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Articulate clear community expectations that honor diversity.
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Form a relationship with a congregation that’s different from yours.
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Make sure that the materials used in your religious education classes
reflect cultural diversity.
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Include information and traditions from many cultures in religious
education classes and worship services.
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Invite members of other congregations to join you for special celebrations
and events.
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