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  • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1977 Letter to the editor: THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Encounters with other cultures offer different views Dear Editor, Not only to know but to come to accept other cultures as viable solutions to problems of living seems to me the more human way to survive on this planet. I firmly believe that children should learn about other cultures beginning in the first grade. But, the important thing to avoid in such an early exposure to cultural diversity is an attitude ot "look how superior our culture is." It is easy to have good intentions contaminated with an almost unconscious arrogance with regard to our own culture. As my knowledge of other life styles, new ways of solving problems and diverse ways of thinking about the meaning of life expanded, l came to realize a fulfillment that 1 would not have enjoyed had I stayed within the confines of mv own culture. I can say without hesitation that because I had the good fortune to learn another language at an early age and was exposed to a different culture. 1 am now like two persons in one. lhe many encounters with other cultures 1 have enjoyed during the past fifteen years have given me a different and satisfying view of life. To be able "to accept" other cultures and not be content with just an intellectual awareness of them requires that one open the doors of one's house to other songs and other dreams. If we give our children the opportunity to view "the other" without a deep set guardedness, to face it without "fear of the unknown", we must help them to first look then enjoy the way of Speech, lhe way ol thinking and living of those "others." We must, in order to create a more caring, more humanity- oriented next generation, expose them to this multicultural world. If we are concerned about peace and brotherhood we must consciously alert our children to living with others with love ami understanding. We must help the young ones reali/e that they can live with a neighbor whose Why is it that the Western press applies a double standard to reporting African affairs? For example, since his ascension to power in the January 1971 coup d'etat Dr. General Idi Amin Dada has been treated as a comic opera buffon in the Western press. But Amin's "clown act"—a telegram he sent in 1972 to Kurt Waldheim, stating that Hitler was right in gassing six million Jews, his subsequent pledge to erect a monument to Hitler in Uganda; his well-wishes lo ex-president Nixon for a speedly recovery from the Watergate affair; Amin's dreams and heart-to-heart talks with Allah, which led to his expulsion of Uganda's Asian community; and his more recent threat to bomb President Kcnyatta's home and the port of Mombasa in the wake of the Israeli raid on Entebbe— can only be treated as jokes if the West considers the lives of African human beings as worthless. Consider the following data: The death toll of African lives in the first three years of Amin's reign in Uganda was estimated by the International Commission of Jurists to be between 25,000 and 250,000 people slaughtered on Amin's orders or with his tacit consent. Troops led by a son of President Amin this past August killed more than 100 students at Maherere University, with 500-700 others reported missing and at least 1,000 wounded. Uganda isn't the only case of this double standard. In 1972 over 102,000 people were massacred during inter-ethnic violence in Burundi out of a population of about four million. Furthermore, the oppressions of Emperor Haile Selassie's feudal regime in Ethiopia like the denial of habeas corpus, incarceration and execution without trial and physical and mental abuse of opponents under the regimes of "Emperor" Jean-Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Republic, Francisco Macias Ngucma of Equatorial Africa and Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinea were, for too long, hardly mentioned in the Western press. Yet if two or three white settlers in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) are murdered the Western press gives forth with a tremendous hue and cry. Only the African nations of Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana have consistently spoken out against Amin's madness. Very recently the dictatorial policies pursued by the governments of Equatorial Guinea, Guinea and the Central African Republic have received notice in the Western press. Quite clearly the Western press was never able to break through the romantic syndrome surrounding the Lion of Judah, Emperor Haile Selassie to see the hunger and suffering caused by the parasitic aristocrats surrounding his throne. Few would deny that left-liberals have done yeoman service in pointing up the atrocities of the world's Vorsters, Smiths and Pinochets. But perhaps it is time that the same standards which are applied to right-wing and racialist regimes now be equally applied to the leaders of the developing world. SUN BUNN DISCO at Greeks A Dance Contest this Wednesday 8:00-til 1st—$30 2nd—case of Michelob \3rd—6 albums out ofTop 20 ALL FREEH CrackPot Ceramics ALPINE BLD. CULLOWHEE OPEN 2—6 MON SAT FREE CUSSES 2-6 DAILY jg. slip-tools-glazes ONE DAY SERVICE ON FIRING physical appearance is different, whose language, and customs are different. As thev feel safe and secure in their values and life sty les How to arrive at this kind of acceptance is the big question. It seems to me that if we are not able to come to know and explore diverse styles of life (religion, language, all aspects ot food production, distribution, child rearing, artistic expression all the dimensions of human living - the whole gamut of human interaction) we lend to become geocentric and ethnocentric in a dangerous way. We become exploiters, aggressors and less than human, lo tear down the walls of prejudice, to demolish racism, to undermine arrogance and to lav the groundwork for a peaceful twenty-first century, we must move out of our limited experiences and become aware of those who are different from us. I would like to put into practice what 1 am Standing for even if it is on a simple scale. 1 have a task group of the AAUW Branch to work on a project which will be a small beginning. We plan to prepare a small audiovisual package, including a speaker on a selected culture or SUb-CUltUre, to take to the elementary schools in Jackson County. However, since 1 am a faculty member, I thought of involving the foreign faculty and students in this small project. Mv contacts with Dr. lom O'Toole. who has been writing on the needs for an intercultural perspective on campus, has now developed into an action group. On January 12, l1)?"7 we met and we are now establishing a campus organization called "Intcrcultural Awareness Association." My project will be supported by the campus organization. At our next meeting we will finalize the setting up of "Intercultural Awareness Association." We would like all those who came to the first two meetings to come again. We will be discussing the specific programs for such an organization which is seen as primarily education and awareness- oriented, with action projects added to or expanded as our support base becomes stronger. The support we need is a belief in cultural pluralism. intercultural exchange and a wish to do something about it. Hie world of the future is going to be a small world, whose inhabitants will survive if they actively believe ill unity through diversity. Gunseli Tamkoc Professor of Social Work t.d/s NEWS STAND CAMPUS DRIVE - NOT ONLY CUUOWHttS ximwtctmn WE ALSO HAVE A FINE SELtCKON OF SILVER, TURQUOISES CORAL
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