When you know better, you do better

Thank God for a Ugandan High School and Primary School education. Yes it was modeled on the British school system but we did add our own unique touch and it was nothing short of Excellent. I realize that one reason why Ugandans are so knowledgeable and accommodating to everyone is we had unfiltered history , social studies and Geography in our School curriculum. That's the reason why we know that sweeping statements like "upper Africans" don't make any kind of sense because there are regions in Africa just like any other continent and several differences in these regions. We also know that we can't assume by looking at someone where they come from, except for some countries that have very distinctive features. Things like migrations and intermarriages across regions and borders have happened over time and now you can't conclude by looking at someone . History lessons and Social studies enable us to tolerate other cultures and not to be guarded or even xenophobic because we simply don't understand or because we are ignorant. When absurd things happen you become really thankful about where you came from. I remember the time when my family had just moved to Tunis, people were obsessed with my little brother Jordan. They gave him sweets, pulled his cheeks, smiled at him etc. Each time a mother did that to Jordan, My mom smiled back at them or their children and the mothers would protectively cover their children. In their mind, they are probably not African because they are Arabs. Well last I checked North Africa is still Africa! But that's besides the point, what made them think they could touch my mom's child, and she couldn't touch theirs? I say ignorance. It makes people really guarded and defensive.  In other countries like Belgium and S. A foreigners are generally treated like they are a problem to be eradicated because people from one particular country(in Belgium I have been told the Congolese and Francophone West Africans have been problematic, in S.A I have been told it's the Nigerians) have continuously become a problem to them. It doesn't matter what country you are from, as long as you have the same colour and have "étranger"  or  "foreigner" on your passport, you all become the same people. In other words because foreigners from one country have been a problem, all foreigners are a problem

I'd list more and more examples but the point of this is thank God for Ugandan education because when you know better, you do better.