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my toddler turns her nose up at spicy food by as it is cooked by myself or her mother (both white) this is not due to any cultural prejudice, she just doesn't like it.

Toddlers in my experience tend to be pretty damn colour blind. My daughter was telling me about a new girl at her toddler group 'she's shorter than me, she's got dark hair, she's got the same shoes as me!'. It wasn't until I met her myself that I realised that her new friend was black - my daughter obviously thought her shoes were more important than her skin colour.

Really this is just shit sensationalist journalism.

Reading it again they're clearly saying that this could be part of a number of indicators that a toddler's being raised with racist attitudes.

This is such a non-story.

"Toddlers who turn their noses up at spicy food from overseas could be branded racists by a Government-sponsored agency."

GORDON CLOWN AND NU LIAR-BORE!!

I have nothing more to add. Save that this story was on the side bar, and worries me slightly more than the prospect of a 3 year-old being considered racist for not eating his Farley's Poppadums.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2266900/Teenager-finds-baby-bat-in-her-bra.html

*snigger*

i thought this was going to be a satire thread you started.
oh god. what is happening to this country.

in any government report, it's fair game to make the connection that anything else also mentioned in that is also going to be branded racist.

I would say 'jornalism for idiots, by idiots;' but I'd wager that the people at the Telegraph know exactly what they're doing.

its only the telegraph that's conflating spicey with foreign. of course toddlers dont like spicey foods - theyre too sensitive to it and it hurts them. its just saying that if i kid sees something foreign looking and rejects it, that this is a negative thing

I was talking to a friend's daughter about her High School Musical sticker album and which characters she liked and didn't like. She liked pretty much all of them bar the black character, because she was black. I couldn't get much else out of her about why.

I don't know how reliable a dislike of curry or beef bourginon would be in identifying racism though. I imagine kids would equally turn their nose up at spotted dick and jugged hair.

but can i just say that i liked spicy food even as a toddler but i guess it can't be that common. are they suggesting that not liking spicy, foreign food is racist or something equally as absurd?

um, why? what business is it of the state?

This isn't news; it's an article that would look at home printed in the Sun.

Gotta say Telegraph's 'reporting' no longer contains proper depth or analysis. It made a feature out of an interview with Obama recently that was done for Rolling Stone. How is that responsible journalism??!!