Comments on: Why Global Lit? Interview with Lucine Kasbarian

By: Maik

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By: Melissa Taylor

Melissa Taylor — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:32:58 +0000

In reply to Rasco from RIF. thanks for sharing those links, Carol. You are doing such great things at RIF!

By: Rasco from RIF

Rasco from RIF — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:35:09 +0000

I was so glad to see this post as I have “caught up” on some blog posts made while I was on vacation. Reading Is Fundamental is in our fifth year of a Multicultural initiative where we are working to promote more access to multicultural literature for children. We are basing our work on the paper “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors” by one of our Literature Advisory Board members, Rudine Sims Bishop of The Ohio University (http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/multicultural/mirrors-windows-and-sliding-glass-doors.htm). You can read more about the overall initiative at http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/multicultural.htm. I hope anyone with ideas for us will share those with us!
Carol Rasco
President
Reading Is Fundamental

By: Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Lyn Miller-Lachmann — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:16:09 +0000

I’m thrilled that our new site, The Pirate Tree, was included. I checked the link, and there didn’t seem to be an error. But anyone who’s having trouble contact me at lynml[at]me[dot]com, and I’ll try to figure out what the problem is.

By: Melissa Taylor

Melissa Taylor — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:03:06 +0000

In reply to Rashmie @MommyLabs. thanks for the heads up - I'll check out what is wrong.

By: Gina @ Special Happens

Gina @ Special Happens — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 02:39:23 +0000

Great info coming from this interview. Will have to look into the suggestions, thank you.

By: Mouseprints

Mouseprints — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:05:37 +0000

What a wonderful interview!
It behooves any person in this globally interactive world to become familiar with other people and cultures. As a child and teen “Third Culture Kid”, American by nationality who grew up in various countries in Africa, I relished the multicultural experiences I had. I struggled with the ignorance I encountered every time we visited the ‘States, and was appalled by the rudeness I saw exhibited by other Americans when they were visiting other countries.
We can be proud of our own cultural heritage, but none of us can afford to be ethnocentric, not in this day and age, and why would we want to be, when the study of other countries, cultures, and people can make our lives so much richer?
And when kids are exposed to multicultural stories early on, even if they, by virtue of where they live, don’t encounter many individuals different from them, it still gives them a better understanding that “normal” can mean many things, and they are thus more empathetic to those they encounter whose lives don’t look exactly like their own.

http://thickandthinthings.blogspot.com