Loving Landover parents the world over teach their children this wonderful playground chant:
Chinese
Japanese
Look at these
Dirty knees!
Of course, there are no Oriental families in Freehold, Iowa, the home of our church, but if one happens to wander in off the highway, holding your eyes in a slanted position and singing this rhyme out makes a GREAT icebreaker.
Nevertheless, the song doesn't really teach our children about the different Oriental sub-species of humanity and why God made them. For example, it doesn't explain that Filipinos generally have the dirtiest knees of all of the yellow peoples, with the Japanese having the cleanest and the Chinese somewhere in between. Or that Chinese people (along with Indians) have value because somebody has to do all that boring math and there just aren't enough Jews to go around.
That's why I recommend having your children read this article from Life magazine. It's a classic from 1941 that teaches about the differences between Chinamen and Nips in a practical, down to Earth way. Plus, it's been approved by CHRIST, the Christian Homeschooling Revised Instructional STandards committee, so you know it's trustworthy!
Chinese

Japanese

Look at these
Dirty knees!
Of course, there are no Oriental families in Freehold, Iowa, the home of our church, but if one happens to wander in off the highway, holding your eyes in a slanted position and singing this rhyme out makes a GREAT icebreaker.
Nevertheless, the song doesn't really teach our children about the different Oriental sub-species of humanity and why God made them. For example, it doesn't explain that Filipinos generally have the dirtiest knees of all of the yellow peoples, with the Japanese having the cleanest and the Chinese somewhere in between. Or that Chinese people (along with Indians) have value because somebody has to do all that boring math and there just aren't enough Jews to go around.
That's why I recommend having your children read this article from Life magazine. It's a classic from 1941 that teaches about the differences between Chinamen and Nips in a practical, down to Earth way. Plus, it's been approved by CHRIST, the Christian Homeschooling Revised Instructional STandards committee, so you know it's trustworthy!

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