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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not my situation, but if it were, [b]I'd think of it as consciousness raising -- teaching people something they didn't - but should - know about their religion.  [/b]
Diversity is something people are faced with more and more these days.  It's about time they recognize it in religion too.

Don't think of it as discrimination - just ignorance - and the next time it happens, inform them of what your religion is.  Otherwise, you're passively contributing the the ignorance yourself.[/quote]

OP here, I don't want this role for my kids. [/quote]

Totally understandable, but op, I think you need to keep your eye on the prize here. Presumably you want your children to have a religious identity with this religion they don't look like they belong to. Right? If so then you need to show them that their religion accepts them by standing up to narrow minded people as the Hebrew school teacher did for the biracial students in an earlier post. Don't think if it as educating the masses. It's you advocating for your children. If you don't teach them that they belong by finding them/making them a community that accepts them, they will reject the religion as they age. Maybe you want that andaybe you don't but you need to keep in mind that THAT is what's at stake here. These people are threatening your family's religious future with every thoughtless comment. Would you stand for such discrimination in an educational setting if your kids, say, didn't look like they'd belong in advanced math classes? Of course not.

Your job is not to educate people. It's to advocate for your children. What do you want for them?[/quote]

This makes sense to me, but I wonder if anything will satisfy OP - besides people just acting the way she thinks they should act without any input.[/quote]

Well, I think if you are Jewish, Mormon, or any religion that you assume has a look, OPEN YOUR MINDS![/quote]

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