Hello Humansss!!!
I initially wanted a friend to take over my blog for a day so you readers could have a new take on reading and a new style. When I asked a friend about this, they said they wanted to write about the ban of henna in our school. The following content is very sensitive and is written very passionately.
DISCLAIMER: This is not a write up to prove our school as wrong or guilty but to help many other diverse people in school understand and learn the importance of culture and religion.
This week's blog is mainly designed to talk about an aggravating issue that has arouse in our school environment. We hope that you can learn and take away something from today's blog!
4th of July to 8th of July. Cultural week. One week - precisely 5 days; to embrace the culture we have to wash out of our accents, clothing, food and habits… for the remaining 185 days of our academic year. But with a diverse variety of students that speak over 200 languages and celebrate hundreds of festivals in a year, is it or was it ever reasonable to ban a cultural art form, in a learning environment that prides itself on celebrating individual differences?
Should you really forbid your students from expressing their culture and punish them for carrying out tradition?
Centuries before both you and I were born; culture and religion have entwined and become inseparable as a pair, to an extent in which it is impossible to tell them apart. As humans we place our belief in our religion and colour our lives with culture. Both a vital part of our existence and also something that defines our soul. Much like our name, they are both considered part of our identity - even if atheism is your way of life.
In this way, people that leave their homeland to come live in other countries, take not much with them ; but their culture, language and traditions. To ask us to sieve and sort our traditions into cultural and religious, is an unattainable task. Which none of us should be asked to do, Yes we do it for culture. No, it might not fit your description for religion. But isn’t it wrong to ask us to redefine something that we use for celebration into a religious thing so that it can easily be justified by your dress code?
Henna is something that we do take for granted, but for all the right reasons ; because would you think that you should have to fight for something so trivial. No, nobody would.But here we are asking again, so that future generations; that take on our blazers. The next batch of people to wear our white flash, don’t have to hide their patterned hands underneath sleeves and tables afraid of being caught and reprimanded. Because we should be proud of who we are - after all culture defines us in more ways than we know.
Krish
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Thank you for tuning, I hope you enjoyed a change of style and I thank my friend Krish for writing for this week's blog.
- Ravitreni Signing Off
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