Tableland

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ay-report.html

This is not a wind-up.

RenShen

What a load of bollocks! Can you imagine picking your child up from nursery (which you are probably paying two thirds of your salary to) and being told that they are racist because they dont like curry????

Geelong Gent

I blame the yanks, but I guess my daughter will be labeled a racist as we went into a McDonalds a few weeks back. She only wanted the toy, when given the food she pushed it away ( good girl) said "no thats yuk!". "Can we have noodles".

Dizzydame

Wonder if they will take the offending toddlers to court? send them to prison even, or community service

I really can't believe that any sane adult can spend time and money on such ridiculous measures, where will it all end?

asher

How ridiculous most toddlers react to some foods as yuk, mine were offered spicy foods when small but didn't like them it didn't mean that they had never been offered them at home just that they didn't like them even though mum and dad did!!

It sounds like a witch hunt

DunRoaminTheUK

Well, my little boy has broken the mould (and lots of other things besides) by failing to eat almost anything.

Does this make him a Global-Racist?

Cheetah7

Can I just say that I hate, loathe and detest curry, I hate the smell of curry and can't walk by a curry house without feeling super sick.

DunRoaminTheUK

A fatwah (Indian fatwah), 2 poppodums and a tika masala upon you untouchable....

Amazulu

We were in KL last year and one evening we ended up wandering into a Muslim food hall as we were hungry and it was getting late. The waiters were showing us all the different foods on offer. I told them that my son would struggle with really spicy food and they gave him some lightly spiced chicken to try. He spat it out and said 'that's disgusting!'. The waiters pissed themselves laughing and no offence was taken. The problem with PC'ness is that, usually, the people applying it are way out of touch with reality.

We ended up taking Josh to Burger King.

NKSK version 2

In the way that the article is written (this is the Telegraph, don't forget, same philospohy as the Mail - just longer words) then fair enough - but I think that there is some merit in linking certain attitudes of food to racism. (Or perhaps a better expression might be "lack of tolerance to others who are different".

The most obvious and most extreme are the remarks (which I heard in an English school) of "I'm not eating that Paki food" when faced with a curry. This attitude certainly needs changing in my book.

But many Australians and British (esp the right wing media) bang on about "multiculturism not working" (I'm convinced that many of them don't really know what 'multiculturalism' is) and yet will tolerate (and encourage) attitudes in their children that if it's not "English" or "Aussie" food (meat and two veg, chips, pies, soup-with-with-nothing-too-exotic-in-it, BBQs) then it's somehow negative and nasty.

The way that kids react to the food can tell you a lot about what's happening at home. A kid who reacts in an extreme manner (similar to that above) to a culturally different food is most probably not going to be living in the most enlightened of homes.

Even kids who don't seem to like anything but meat and two veg-with-absolutely-no-spices might well be living in a home which reinforces a mono-culture.

On the other hand, they might just be living with parents who are exceedingly crap cooks.

NKSK version 2

I think that this is different.

Most kids struggle with chilli - even our eldest who has been exposed to it since birth can't tolerate it. (Although the youngest seems to have recently begun developing a bit of an obsession with it).

But what if you could have taken the chilli out, would he have given it a go?

NKSK version 2

Muslims in SE Asia would rarely show that they are offended. Even if you were completely hostile.

busterboy

Weird, weird woman.

bcworld

Reading the article I'd say its a classic case of quotes being taken and used out of context to try and infer something that wasn't in the original text. Oh, what a surprise, its also happening in a story about Muslims in the right wing press.

DunRoaminTheUK

I think what this all comes down to is that we need a good 'ol fashioned crusade to clear the air again and allow us all to become friends again (in due course).