CLASSROOM OF CULTURE
Our ethnic and spiritual diversity and multiculturalism
is an emerging and expanding reality. It is an important
foundation of our present lives and daily experience.
This converging frontier offers incredible opportunities
at many levels. To understand the full potential and
far-reaching impact of this multi-dimensional transition
around us, we must engage in study and programs that
highlight its relevance to future generations.
Each March, the Asian Club at Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory
School organizes a Festival that recognizes and celebrates
the "Asia in us," tapping into local resources,
communities and cultures in Indiana through fabulous
entertainment, displays, and delicious international
fare. The Festival on Wednesday showcased another
hands-on classroom of colorful cultural immersion,
attractions, and contagious youthful energy with the
Japanese Minyo Dancers, and Chinese, Filipino, Polynesian,
and Punjabi Bhangra Dances and raised funds for a
minority scholarship.
The Asian Festival at Brebeuf and countless other
unheralded events in Indiana provide opportunities
to experience and enhance responsible international
citizenship. As imaginative teaching forums with lasting
lessons in relating to other people, dispelling stereotyped
ignorance and forging life-long friendships and pride
in other traditions, they prepare young minds to transform
our common global village into a place of promise
for all.
Kanwal Prakash "KP"
Singh
Indianapolis, Indiana USA
