22 - Friday, September 27, 1991 - North Shore News MuchMusic’s Top Videos TOP 20 music videos for the week ending Friday, Sept. 20. 1. Metallica: Enter Sandman 2. Paula Abdul: Promise Of A New Day 3. Extreme: Hole Hearted 4. C+C Music Factory: Things That Make You... 5. Sarah McLachlan: The Path Of Thorns 6. Grapes of Wrath: | Am Here 7. Martika: Love... Thy Will Be Done 8. Michael Belton: Time Love & Tenderness 9. Dire Straits: Calling Elvis 10. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Learning To Fly 11. Rod Stewart: The Motown Song 12. Anthrax featuring Public Enemy: Bring The Noise 13. Cathy Dennis: Too Many Walls 14. Bryan Adams: Can't Stop This Thing We Started 15. Bonnie Raitt: Something To Talk About 16. Jesus Jones: Real Real Real 17. Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch: Good Vibra- tions 18. The KLF: 3 a.m. Eternal 19. Alanis: Feel Your Love 20. Seal: Future Love Paradise phote submitted SARAH MCLACHLAN’S video “The Path of Therns"’ (from her latest Netwerk recording Solace) moves up to no. 5 on the MuchMusic chart. Upgrade your Aquarium Filter &/or Keating Systems Alf Aqua Clear Power Ali Hagen Thermostatic Fiiters & Power Heads Heaters 25% ots 25% ott Largest selection of tropical & cold water Aquarium Starter Kits on the North Shore * Baby Budgies * Baby Cockatiels « Baby Lovebirds x * Many more in-store Specials « Sale ends Oct. 6/91 North Shore Pet Foods We sell Hagen Quality Pet Products | re 988-5012 988-5081 1264 Marine Dr., N.Van. (FISH) (beside Save-On-Foods) This week’s question: Do young people get sufficient media coverage? Racism in our schools (pt. 2) A NORTH Vancouver teacher (who is Asian), to a high school student (also Asian): ““(Name), you’re a banana; yellow on the outside, but all white on the inside.’ When I heard this, I had to agree with it. (Name) was as ac- culturated as could be. That is, if one couldn’t see he was Asian, one would never guess. Some sociologists say this phe- nomenon of ‘‘acculturation’’ is the basis of our school system. As Subhas Ramcharan puts it, as a result of his studies of East Indian students in Canada: ‘*No longer closed off from the mainstream by the language bar- rier, highly motivated to succeed economically and socially, and thrown into a heterogeneous mix- ture of peers, the East Indian child often has to compromise in his cultural traditions and values and adapt to his new reality.”’ One could even argue that the school system de-racializes stu- dents, by drilling ethnocentric tradition and values, often with no consideration for the student’s own culture. Government, through its schools, institutionalizes ethnocen- trism (the idea that what is present in your own culture represents the natural and best way to do things). Among other suggestions, Ramcharan (in his book, Racism: Nonwhites in Canada) states that schools should pay more attention to interracial problems, there should be more elective *‘courses on minority cultures, increased at- tention to teacher training, and programs for the hiring of more minority group teachers.. If a teacher holds prejudicial at- titudes, his influence is infinite. No attempt at attitudinal change By Rod Solar Contributing Writer will be effective. As Ramcharan’ emphasizes: “The effect of prejudicial at- titudes and discriminatory behavior by teachers on the non- white student is profound, nega- tive, psychologically traumatic, and emotionally dysfunctional.”’ He goes on to say, ‘‘While there is no documented evidence of a widespread practice of color discrimination by teachers in Canada, the problem of hostility between nonwhite and white children is real and problematic."’ But the controversial issue of racism is shunned. High school graduates are sheltered products of Canadian education. Graduates experience institu- tional sexism, racism and homophobia for the first time. Without objective vatue skills, they either (a) enjoy society’s benefits (if one is a white, heterosexual male) or (b) accept its repression (if one is anything else). Neither group benefits society; neither group is equipped with the means. There are many ways that one couid teach and learn about rac- ism in the classroom. One method, which was designed for elementary school students, could even help in high school: Jane Elliot, an lowa elementary school teacher, was faced with a problem. She had to explain the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King to an all-white class, in an all-white town, that had never experienced overt racial discrimination. She conducted a simple experi- ment. She divided her class into two groups, students with blue eyes and students with brown eyes. The first day, the blue-eyes were dominant. They had a choice of where to sit, went to lunch early, could come in late from recess, and were encouraged in their work, The brown-eyes had a seating arrangement on one side of the class, wore collars, and were not permitted to eat and play with the blue-eyed children. The next day, the roles were reversed. The experiment began with gig- gles, but soon became serious. The children in the dominant position developed ingenious discriminations. They immensely enjoyed their top role and some- times behaved viciously. The inferior group could not help thinking about the collars on their necks or the taunts of their classmates. Mrs. Elliot ended the experi- ment, and all the children felt an enormous relief. Some may criticize Mrs. Etliot’s manipulation of young emotions or object that two days of role- playing can’t deal with the com- plex problems of prejudice. But these critics still believe that schools are daycares or factories for producing labor units. Instead, students should come out of school with the tools need- ed to handle the very real prob- tems of an imperfect wortd. NOTICE TO MOTORISTS PORTEAU BLUFFS ROCK SCALING PROJECT SEA-TO-SKY HIGHWAY 99 The Ministry of Transportation and Highways advises that there willbe 2% a hour weekday closures on the Sea-to-Sky Highway at Porteau Bluffs, 25 km o& north of Horseshoe Bay, fram Monday September 30 until Friday Novem- me ber 1. Tne closures are needed for rock scaling, bolting and blasting work. am Closures are scheduled as follows: Monday to Thursday 10:00 AM — 12:36 Noon 1:30 PM — 4:00 PM There will be no closures on Friday afternoons, weekends, Advanc? Poll- ing Days or on Election Day. For further information, please contact the Ministry of Transportation and | Highways 24-Hour Road Report at 525-4997 (Greater Vancouver), 938-4997 (Whistler), 371-4997 (Kamloops), 860-4997 (Kelowna), 855-4997 (Abbotsford), { 380-4997 (Victoria). In all other areas please call 1-800-663-4997. 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