One of the things we are commited to doing at my preschool is exposing the children to various foreign cultures and languages and promoting a multicultar worldview. We do this pretty well, it´s a part of our daily routine and play and the children react well to it.
One of the things we are very careful about is exposing the children to the fact that there exist all sorts of skin colours out there. Although the biggest part of the group of children and workers are Scandinavian/European Caucasians, as a multi-ethnic preschool we got all sorts of races within our community. And one of the ways we expose the children to the normalcy of people having a different skin color/look is through our selection of toys, precisely our dolls.
Right now we have a collection of 7 dolls for the children to play with and they all represent various racial and ethnical identities. We have 2 African dolls (black skin), 1 Hispanic, 2 Asian and 2 Caucasian. It may not sound like a lot but hopefully, through this as well having a multiethnic group of children we can teach our children that skin colors vary but that it´s normal. If they grow up used to others looking completely differently than themselves, we are hopefully bringing up the next of culturally aware and open-minded children.
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