A QUESTION OF COLOUR
"1 DON’T like black people. It’s the colour. It makes me nervous. They might be savage. . ." "T think a/l Negroes are . . . just like us except the colour. I like them. They’re nice people." Funny, isn’t it, the difference a bit of first-hand experience makes, for these’ are the actual impressions of a child--the same child-in a school in England before and after he had had a chance to meet some Negroes. The Negroes he met were two women from the Gold Coast, well qualified as teachers and experienced with children. They went to the school, stayed for a few weeks and, in a way, conquered. Either way the child's judgment was superficial -based on too littl evidence--yet very much like the sort of judgments made about
other races and nations by children and grown ups, too, the world over. This is one of the points made in The
Teacher Was Black, one of a series of Unesco Radi» programmes which are to start the rounds of YA and YZ stations next week. This one not only discusses popular ideas and prejudices on the subject of race, but throws a good deal of light on the contributions that have been made by people of many nationalities to the material benefits of civiligation. It shows that in the long run no particular nation or colour can pride itself on having a monopoly either of intelligence or inventiveness. Also to be heard in this series is What Price Atomic Energy? a feature about the peaceful uses of atomic energy, and Back Page News, which looks at the world’s postal services and shows how they have overcome international barriers. The series will
start first from 2YA, which will broadcast What Price Atomic Energy? on) Tuesday, | February 15, at 9.15. p.m.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 19
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300A QUESTION OF COLOUR New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 811, 11 February 1955, Page 19
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