
Friday, July 20, 2007

Racial Harmony Day!
July 20, 2007 is Racial Harmony Day Eve! July 20, 2007 is also the celbration for Racial Harmony Day!!! We must dress in traditional costumes. =P We will have to make five stones! Each person must make a stone. Playing Five Stones was fun even though I did not play well in the game. I also did not know much how to play! There was lots of laughter in the class too! We were split into different groups to play the game, Five Stone. Some of the boys were at the back of the classroom had their “Five Stone Battle” there.
By playing this game, it will let us know about other culture such as Malays and Indians. Our participation engaged us with our HEAD, HEART and HANDS. This game also provided us with valuable National Education lessons.
Racial Harmony Day is held on 21st July every year to mark the day in 1964 when race riots broke out in Singapore. It reminds us of the importance of racial harmony and not to take it for granted.
Although the different racial communities in Singapore live in harmony with one and another, we must never take this as granted. To live in harmony, everyone will need to put in some efforts. In any community, there are deep feelings of race, language or religion. The race riots that occurred in the past as well as the racial conflicts in many other countries are good lessons for us. We need value and appreciate that each race has its own culture and traditions. The many races living in harmony in Singapore can be our source of strength and creativity.
The main thing of the racial harmony is that we could be living together in a small country, Singapore, even though we had different races and cultures. From this Racial Harmony Day, we must learn to respect each other races and cultures. If we did not, there will be race riots again which happened in the past.
There is a website where there is games on racial harmony for you all to play!
♥ClariceChua♥sweet mem0ries♥ 7/20/2007 04:36:00 PM