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Essay / In “America Needs Its Nerds” by Leonid Fridman - 1257
Education,” by Russell Baker, he states that many students from a young age learn to judge or are judged. They learn young if they are stupid or smart. Baker explained how students learn from a young age to judge based on skin color. He says: “Fathers and mothers can demonstrate to the child the social cohesion that can be built on shared hatred by demonstrating their aversion to children whose pigmentations they displease. » (baker) I see this as the sad truth. Children become old enough to distinguish colors and then realize that they are different. I went to the water park with my friend Heather and her daughter, Eden, and while we were swimming, Eden saw a little black girl and she told the little girl that they should play together, so we took Eden and the other little girl at the kiddie pool with the little girl's mom and Eden came back and told us that she and the little girl were best friends. That evening when we left the water park, Eden told Heather and I that she had been told in Sunday school that skin color didn't matter and that she was going to be friends with everyone. Baker said children learn from a young age to judge. I think our culture needs to teach children to love everyone despite their