On the last day of the "literacy, family and culture" course, we watched a touching movie at http://www.teachermovie.com/ .
Some of the students were crying while and after watching it. I almost cried, but held back.
Did I have such a inspiring teacher in my life? I don't know.

"On the very day, she [the teacher] quit teaching reading, writing and arithmetic. Instead, she began to teach children." - From "The Teacher Movie"

This book that I have read in the Literacy, Family and Culture course is about school experiences of people from diverse ethnic groups, such as African American, Asian America, biracial America, European American, Latino American and Native American. Twelve stories were written by different authors having different races, background, and school experience. Many of the writers in the book speak from socially subordinate positions.

As a third person who grew up in a different country so did not have school experience in this country, the stories in this book were shocking to me especially when they revealed that how they were suffered from discrimination in the school system just because of their skin color and their language.

I know that people in this country are very sensitive in discussing about races or ethnicities. But as Broutte pointed out, "differences between cultural groups have important social and educational implications." I would recommned this book to who are interested in multicultural education, even to Korean educators while the stories are what's happening in the U.S. This book is worth reading.

"It was apparent that colored people in the United States had been brainwashed into believing the standard for beauty was measured by the appearance of White people. " (Boutte, Gloria. (2001) Resounding Voices, p112, Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.)

This comment attracted my attention, thinking that 'yes, it is still apparent that colored people in the world wide has been brainwashed into believing like that, I guess.' Some Asians get the plastic surgery to look like the white. Media such as TV, the Internet, commercials keeps conveying the message of that the beauty is the appearance of the white or the white like, such as long legs, big eyes, fair-skinned, bigger nose, and so on.

What is the standard of beauty? What is the beauty of the East?