Muslims, Schooling, Equality and bigotry.

Trollslayer

The Facebook crowd has changed perceptions a lot.
The Village in Manchester was a great place, from the Rembrandt to Via Fossa, it just worked.

Pacifico

OK I'll bite as your trolling (its a slow night) - why does not seeing the need to promote homosexual relationships in school make someone in favor of an apartheid state?

Perhaps we need to promote slavery to be able to teach about it - or antisemitism..

Trollslayer

There are plenty of heterosexual relationships described in school - Romeo and Juliet is an obvious example so it is a matter of representation.

Pacifico

Who is suggesting that you shouldn't teach about gay relationships?

Do you believe you can teach about racism without actually promoting it?

IronGiant

Thanks krish, this was mid eighties and it definitely wasn't an enforced segregation, just what they were used to.  Still see it in my extended family. well we're off down the pub IG, fancy a pint? Erm, well I was going to volunteer to help cook...

Trollslayer

Usual deflection.

Pacifico

So no answer then - just trolling

Toko Black

TBH it's very similar to how many families and social gatherings occurred in the the UK/West for centuries including the 80's and 90's.
It's only in the last couple of decades that the issue of the social expectations of gender have become highlighted to the point of people actively changing the dynamics of family/social gatherings.

I could count on the fingers of my nose the number of times I would find my father in the kitchen at Christmas doing anything other than looking for a bottle of wine or sneaking a mince pie

Sonic67

Juliet is 13 ("she hath not seen the change of fourteen years"). Romeo is an adult. There's some unfortunate implications right there.

Trollslayer

True.