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To: HG who wrote (6460)	10/20/2001 8:22:01 PM
From: Neeka	Respond to of 281500

I also remember how afraid she was to go to her first school here in CA, and how excited excited she was at the end of the first day. She had tales about how beautiful her friends were, how nice they had been to her, how they had loved her Australian accent and other things about her....She was accepted and assimilated and the "differences", rather than being a butt of jokes, were the cause of envy and respect. She never wanted the schooldays to end. I worked in one of the junior high schools in a Seattle suburb once upon a time, and your story reminded me. A young minority girl from the inner city came to this school for an education. She was hard as could be, and did not want to be there. She pined for her old, hard chums in the inner city. She had a real chip on her shoulder and hated authority. I had a talk with her one day because she was in trouble. When I asked her what was wrong, she said " the kids here are too nice." I was shocked at these words, and when I asked her why she thought that was wrong she admitted that she did not know how to react to kindness. I taught her how to return kindness, and by the end of the year she was totally absorbed into the society, had good friends, and was very happy. She blossomed and became a very good student. That is another example of the goodness of Americans towards their fellow man. I don't claim that all Americans are "nice" or "good", just that because we are taught to accept diversity and that racism and hate are unacceptable, we are more tolerant than any other society on Earth. M