Are three year olds who refuse curry racist?

Question

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2261307/Toddlers-who-dislike-spicy-food-racist%2C-say-report.html

The National Children's Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and nursery teachers advising them to be alert for racist incidents among youngsters in their care.

This could include a child of as young as three who says "yuk" in response to being served unfamiliar foreign food.

Answer 1

LOL i say 'yuk' to curry,and i'm the least racist person i know.I just don't like it.So does that mean my taste buds are racist? lol x

Answer 2

Ok maybe i'm racist... But i don't like watermelon, curry, or collored greens.... i'm going to turn myself in to the racist police   LOL

Everything is racist these days....

If i want to be racist, that's my right.

Welcome to Liberal America, going to h**l in a handbasket

Answer 3

have you noticed that 98 per cent...of complaints about racism  comes from the non white community...perhaps there the racist ones after all.......seamanab x

Answer 4

its complete madness every child dislikes some foods as do we all it doesn't make us racist. why does everything get blown out of proportion?? i wonder what kind of world we are living in. too many ridiculous ppl sitting in offices over paid with nothing better to do than come up with these stupid ideas.

Answer 5

No a three year old has no idea about racism, none whatsoever.  But three year olds do know what kind of food they like to eat, and will not eat what they don't like.  Perfectly normal, I would say.

What we have here is a money wasting, time wasting, clueless bloody quango, with nothing else to do but stir things up in this manner!!!!!

And then we get Gordon Brown going on telling people not to  waste food!!!  Do as I say and not as I do syndrome precisely.

This government is constantly throwing tax-payers money at poxy efforts like this one, when so much needs to be done about so much that is wrong in this country.

It makes my blood boil!!!!   Arrrrrrrrggggghh..........

Answer 6

It is c**p. In theory, in the office, when they were drawing this up, it sounds good even to me, to get children who discriminate on the basis of something being foreign. But how would you know they hadn't been served it before? Or just gone 'yuk' at the smell/sight? 'Yuk' is such an instinctive reaction as well, it's not like it really can have any racially-motivated behind it, even if it is from a racist.

FAIL.

Answer 7

Well , the NCB needs racists or they be out of a job.

For 12 million a year, I would be turning up boulders looking for racists

'Eeek, not enough racists in the UK, time to create a few more'..lol.

Answer 8

umm... well... foreign food can be a bit much for some peoples stomachs to handle, and can also smell strong and loon unusual which would most likely make young children think OMG what the h**l is that i aint eatin that!... and some kids are just awkward... i dont like much foreign food and im not racist at all! i think its just to do with personal taste in food... not oppinion on people of other nationalitis... coz like, think about it... a 3 year old proberly doesnt even get the idea of not wanting to eat something because of where it is from i dont think little kids really care about that ^-^ hope i help :)

Answer 9

That is a misleading article about a book published recently by the National Children's Bureau - http://www.ncb.org.uk/Page.asp?originx_2... - I can't see anywhere in their press release that says it is being 'issued as guidance' to teachers.  It's a book that a person can buy if they want to consider the issues.

Don't just believe what you read in the papers; read around it until you find a reasonable source.

Answer 10

I was forced to eat a boiled egg in hospital when i was about 4, and threw it up all over the bed; consequently i didn't try an egg again till i was almost middle aged !! So i think forcing kids is wrong, and has a negative effect anyway.

Answer 11

Nonsense. Yuk would simply mean I do not like the taste or not recognising the food as just that.

Answer 12

This is absurd.

Answer 13

Foreign food hasn't been unfamiliar in the UK for a long time,its part of our culture now.

The c**p some people come out with!

Answer 14

That is so stupid. Three year olds are liable to say "yuk" to anything that isn't sweets or that they're not familiar with. That is seriously dumb. I'm so tired of dumb sh*t like this when there are so many more important issues! How about spending more time on trying to protect children from abuse rather than looking too much into the general fussy behaviour of toddlers!

Answer 15

Why would anyone turn down a good curry

Answer 16

OH.........MY............GOD!!!!!!! I have a three year old who's pallet can not tolerate spicy food. I personally like curry, Chinese, Cantonese. Idalia, Tia etc & my favorite is BRITISH food. This is unbelievable. I can not understand why this would even be an issue. Someone  completely lost the plot.

Answer 17

That is totally ridiculous !! They are too young to know about politics.

Answer 18

Political correctness gone mad!  Some of these nutters even stop the kids singing traditional nursery rhymes like Old MacDonald had a farm  it has to be 'Ali Baba' had a farm. Not to mention 'Baa Baa black sheep'  Ridiculous!

Answer 19

I think the world has gone simply mad.A three year old not wanting something to eat simply doesnt like what is being served.

Answer 20

i wouldn't have thought so.  a lot of children don't like the spicy flavour, and many children don't like things in a sauce. The yuk could just be a normal response to the child being asked to eat something they don't like.  i can imagine the same response if i gave my kids liver & onions for dinner tomorrow!  why does everything have to come down to racism?

Answer 21

Having a 3 year old in the house I can assure you that a kid that age has no concept of what another country is, or what a 'race' is, or even that they exist in a country, let alone that they are making racist choices about stuff.  Kids that age just fill their nappies, assert themselves and scream and get everyone running around them!  

It's as daft as today's other story of schools getting 5 year olds to do Shakespeare ... yeah, sure 5 year olds understand themes of military strategy, romantic intrigues, Greco-Roman history, Royalty - not!!  Who's in charge of this country now?  When's the next boat out!!

Answer 22

Either you believe that

1.) The Government has some top secret agenda to convert us all to Islam and is secretly training all teachers within the Education system to brainwash our children against all things British

or

2.) We realise that these stories are twisted and blown up out of all proportion by the press because moral outrage of the "they are taking away our culture variety "sells.

Answer 23

We are paying for this Mind Bending.

A child has no idea that the terms described are derogatory.

Now, we must insist the this NCB be taken to court for statements liable to cause Racial Hatred.

They have published the terms ''Blackie and p**i'' in the same sentence as  ''Those People and They Smell''.

The NCB failed to include the term ''Honkie, Whitie'' or ''Anglo'' where there is a largely ethnic populated nursery.

The NCB are being discriminant, and should be stripped of their £12 million forthwith.

Answer 24

Absolutely firkin wacky, I would think 50% of British people ( white that is ) oops that was not nice, anyway , 50% don't even like the stuff and as for little kids all they like is sweeties and their thumb any thing with abit of strong taste is "yuk" salt, spice, etc and of coase CURRY

Answer 25

No, of course not. Anyone who says otherwise is either racist themself or a deluded extremist.

Answer 26

lmao....... OMG.. its all i can say..

ok.. if my 3year old got accused of being  'racist' at her nursery for refusing a certain food... i would not be happy, and also i would expect bacon butties all around.. !!!! ..with EVERYONE eating them.. or i would be most offended.. would that matter?

Answer 27

Have these people got cotton wool for brains omg

Answer 28

I'm Indian, born, brought up & residing in Mumbai city, India.

My 5year old refused curry for his dinner tonight. He wanted a chicken bake with mushroom & cheese.

How could a refusal of a certain kind of food be construed as being racist???

Of course, on other days, he will ask for curry & refuse the bake! lol...thats just my point...children will speak their hearts & their minds...construing such innocent behaviour to be racist (a very adult behaviour) is absurd.

Answer 29

I think that is silly. Just because I don't like Japanese food doesn't mean I'm racist! What is the world coming to?

Answer 30

George Orwell is spinning in his grave right now ....

And people wonder why so many people are emigrating from the UK right now ......

Answer 31

Arguably yes, if the reason they refuse to eat it is because it's 'foreign' food.  But somehow I doubt a 3-year old would know where curry originated, they probably just wouldn't like the taste.