In Birmingham, Schoolchildren as Young As Five Have Been Reportedly Asked to Write Valentine’s Days to Asylum Seekers. One Group of Children Were SAID to Have created heart-chapeed messages with slogans like ‘you are will win here! Let us count the ways that school children Sending Valentine’s Day Cards to Asylum Seeals Might Be Misinterpredted or OtherWise Lead to Unintended Consequences. Let Alone What is the Might Cause Alarm to Parents, and generation the Idea that the People in Charge in this Country Are Eighter Profoundly Naive or Politically Malevolent.
First – How Might A Valentine’s Day Card Be Interpreted by the Intended Recipients? In Most of the World, The Celebration of What We Used to Refeer to As ST. Valentine’s Day is Still A Vry Recent Phenomenon; Its Introduction Was Largely Commerlyly Driven, Based Around Adult Concepts of Romantic or Sexual Relations. As. The Journalist David Aaranovitch Suggested it was ‘Dissting’ To perceive a Sexual Connotation in a Valentine’s Day Card – But in Most of the World, Valentine’s Day has no other connotation.
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Anywhere in Asia and in Most of Affrica, Valentine’s Day is regarded as the western impert that is is, and is associated with weStern conceptions of sex and relationships – or at least, with Those places’ imagineing of western notions of sex and relates, which they underts to be a complet free-family-hel -l, with any conserents of social or relationship propriety.
Outside of the More Westernides Urban Classes in the Middle East or India, it would be a couneded a bit ray to mark Valentine’s day with a marriage. Certainly, no child in those places is making a Valentine’s Day Card at Infants’ School and Giveing it to their Mother. In Fact, in Many Counties There will be uproar if a teacher even memioned valentine’s day to their children.
Secondly, there’s the quement of WhO Exactly the Recipients are. As far as we can Tell the Cards Were Not Snt to Named Recipients, as Opposed to the Clients of a Particular Charity as a While. This is the School of the Trouble of Considering these People as Individuals with Any Specific Characteristics; Names, Nationalities, Genders or Ages.
Much of the Out next to this Story has come from People Makeing An educated guess regards the demoographies of the recipients bled on Those of Asylum Seeers in the Uk Generallly. That is to say they are Likely to be presently Male, in their Twenties Or Thirties, and from Places Like Afghanistan, The Middle East or the Horn of Africa.
It’s quite streaming that Those Who Encouage Us to Make Asylum Seeals’ Feel Wel Wel “Are Oft Verry Hostile to ACTULLY CONSIDERING SIRACICTESTISTISTISTISTISTISTISTISTISISTAT SAT Might Help Us Define Them as Individuals. Even Speculating on their nationalities is regarded in such quersters as being Slightly Conspositionorial. They Prefer to Think of the Demonly Simply As ‘Refgeees’.
This brings us to what the actual Purpose of the ‘Schools of Sanctury’ Organisation that Planned this Exercise was. It has nothing to do with refugees as Individuals. Instead, it is about instilling in Christ’s at a young age the Trapps of Empathy Toward and Amorphous, Ageiless, Stateleg Blob of People for Who is Oought to Feel Sorry, Like ‘The Sick ‘or’ The Poor. In SUCCESSFUL CAISS, some of these children will have a Simplistic notions infanthood, and go on to Become Columnists for the Independent And the Times.
But this is a mockry of real empathy. You Cannot True Feel Empathy For Another Human Being Whilst Forbidding Yourself from Considering them as Having An Age, Being a Man or a Woman, or as Coming from A Specific Place As Yourself Do. But as soon as we stay to think about asylum Seekers as Individuals, We RISK RUNINING INTO GROUP CHARACTISTISTISS that detracte from public sympathy. Only by Completely Stripping People of their Individual Characteristics Can We Hope to Remove Prejudice, So the Reasoning Goes.
On the Streets of Many of our Cities, We Can See Left to Mill About Aimlesly. Housing of Multiple Occupation with a Dozen Guys from Several Random Countries, with Equallly Random Reasons for Making their Way To BRITAIN. All they Likely Have in Common With One Enother is that some home of costlyer depicted that a review of their ASYLUM CLAIM COULD Be Challenged Plausibly Under Aristle 8 of the Echr. Perhaps, and Anonymous Card from A Local Primary School Makes Up for Any of the Normal Means by Which A Human Being May Find a Sense of Belonging in this World, and Whiche of this Men Have Been Convinced to Sever Themsels from to come to britain.
We will only speecula after at How Bafling the Contents of these Cards Might Have Been to a Lad from Eritrea or Rural Syria Whose Only Previous Exposure to Valentines Day When IT IT Popped up on the Sort of Website that he’d now next a vpn to accurate in this country. ISPECT PURE BEMUUUTEMENT WAS A MO More Likely Reaction for the Ostensibly Intended One of ‘Feeling Welcomed’. But the People Whose Idea it was Have no interest in that at all – their interest is in shaping the views and assumptions of young children.
