Blog #2 Paintings and Culture

Velvet art form is unique and brought a lot of money to families with whom was selling/making the pictures. Many pictures are neat but some are portraying people in a negative aspect and some pictures are portraying religious figures in debatable scenes. As far as economic conditions are concerned...I think the velvet era has passed. People do still sale them but I don't think they are as poplar as they were before. They were used to decorate many homes and businesses. After the huge broadcast of these paintings many people started doing them here in the U.S. and the big "boom" was gone. These paintings sometimes can cause controversy among the different cultures and how the figure is represented in their world.
If an ELL student is riduculed for this type of family tradition. Family traditions comes in many forms and this happens to be one. Students get made fun of for many reasons because of ignorance (not knowing). In multicultural education we should always instill in our students individual differences between cultures. The words prejudice, stereotype and discrimination comes to mind here...and we have to make sure all groups assimilate in a positive way respecting all cultures. Even though religion is not suppose to be taught in school, I think it is important for students to know the different types of religion. For a student to be ridiculed is a form of bullying. Bullying is not allowed. Many times students are ridiculed because of the unknown factor. I think this would be a great learning experience to gain knowledge of why they believe/practice that particular tradition. Students would be reminded that we all come from different backgrounds. Each culture practices different beliefs and that doesn't make one right and the other wrong. I think this is interesting...this is a little off topic but it kind of fits in way. There were some students graduating from the adult education school. There was one student there who was not going to walk because it was against her religion and her family does not support this kind of recognition. I didn't really understand why but its not my place to judge others and that's what I would tell the students. Students need to know that its not polite to judge someone because of their beliefs tradition or not.