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By Ng Yuk Yie

Targeted Groups

01

Children

02

Teachers

03

Friends

04

Parents

Children

     The objective of instilling moral values to children is to establish cross-group friendships and enhance positive interaction with other races. For example, children can make friends regardless of their skin color. The second objective is to decrease and eliminate prejudices and discrimination between one and another.​ This is to prevent bullying in school among children. The third objective is to introduce children about the diverse cultures and people from different races and ethnicities.​ Therefore, children who learn about diverse cultures in school will feel more comfortable when dealing with these differences in their future. This enables children to interact with people from a larger spectrum of social groupings and to feel more secure in themselves and their interactions with each other (The Importance of Diversity and Cultural Awareness in the Classroom, n.d.).

Teachers

     The first objective is to promote friendly learning environment for the students.​ This is to reduce the chance of students getting stress when they discriminated among their peers. The second objective is teachers have the awareness of avoiding racism and stereotype among peers and their children. Therefore, they will be able to foster a good image in front of the parents.​ The third objective is teachers play an important role to be the students’ role model such as carry proper moral value to the students. Hence, teachers can further develop their ​good personality in the future.

Friends

     The first objective is to foster a spirit of social justice through critical thinking among the youngsters. ​The second objective is to let the young adults to truly understand the root of racism as racism is not just an act of an individual. It should be done together to stop the racism.

Parents

     The first objective is to understand the harmful effects of racism. Therefore, parents can spread the awareness to children about anti-racism. The second objective is parents are able to instil their children good moral value of staying in multi-ethnic country such as Malaysia.​ For example, the moral value that parents can instil to children is respect each other regardless of their skin colour. The third objective is to be a good role model to their children.​ Hence, children can learn from their parents because they learn things through observing the behaviour of adults.

Reference
The Importance of Diversity in the Classroom. (n.d.). School of Education. Retrieved March 14, 2022, from https://drexel.edu/soe/resources/student-teaching/advice/importance-of-cultural-diversity-in classroom/#:%7E:text=Students%20Feel%20More%20Confident%20and,in%20their%20interactions%20with%20others.

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