Culture Clash

Things like this make me see red, they shouldnt, because really it has absolutely no significance to my life, but its the principle that gets me. A few months ago I wrote about a girl in London that wanted to wear her traditional dress to the public school she was attending. If she wanted to do that then she should have gone to a traditional school of her religion. Not try and force her cultural beliefs on a school that has a set dress code which she was fully aware of when applying to that school.

I have now read on a South African News site that there is a 15 year old girl in the Natal province that wants to wear a nose ring to school. This she says is her cultural right, she claims her cultural identity was discriminated against by being told to remove it. Right now I would llike to use words that some would say show what a limited vocab I have, but there really arent any other words to express my anger towards this person.

'Her mother, Navi Pillay, said nose-piercing was a 400-year-old Hindu tradition and was time-honoured in their family.' well thats fine, but then go do it in your own schools, not a public school wear all students are required to abide by the same rules and regulations as well as dre code, you cant make exceptions for some.

But as far as this has gone, there is still at least one governmental official that has a bit of sense,
'Pillay said an official from the KwaZulu-Natal education department had said Sunali should attend a Hindu school if she wanted to wear a nose stud.'

Regardless the girl will get her way, and the schools authority will be undermined, a place where children learn about obedience and discipline, what does this say to them?. Society preaches about tolerance, but how long until a time when there will be too much tolerance?