Mom-of-two Aparita Bhandari learns that living in a diverse city doesn’t guarantee tolerant kids and that discussing race isn't always so straightforward.
The other day my four-year-old daughter, Mallika, came home from preschool, plonked her bag on the floor, and told me, “Mummy, Ellie brought really stinky food to school today.” I was taken aback by her description of her Asian classmate’s lunch. Growing up in Australia in the late ’80s, I was the Indian kid with the “stinky food.” Every day I dreaded opening my
, and the scent of chicken biryani wafting out. I would brace myself for the chorus of “Eeewww!” and “What’s that?” I much preferred when I was allowed to bring money for cafeteria pizza or meatballs. Raising kids in multicultural Canada 20 years later, I assumed that this youngest generation would instinctively value, instead of singling each other out for “stinky food.” Our neighbourhood of Toronto is known as both “Tehranto” and Koreatown North. Vietnamese pho joints jostle for space with Mexican eateries, and playground banter is carried out in Japanese, Russian and Tagalog.
Unlike me, Mallika won’t be ostracized for the contents of her lunch bag when she starts junior kindergarten this month. She’s a
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