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Teaching our children well: your concerns about white supremacism and racism in my writing about Venezuela

 * Hello!
 * Thank you for your edits to the WikiJunior page on Venezuela, which I have only just seen.
 * I must admit I don't know much about the problems of racism/white supremacism over there. And indeed in all of South America.
 * (Really I cannot comment on Poles and racism or otherwise, or rather, I do not wish to).
 * I do appreciate how hard it must be for people (like me) to write about the place when they don't live there or even know there.
 * When I said 'civilians' I certainly never meant for them to have any colour or race. I only meant people who weren't military.
 * And surely a leader is elected for what he or she means to the people. I wasn't fully aware of what the businessmen did to Chavez, though I may have suspected as much in media coverage which I have read over the years. And if he were recalled from office, well, that puts a different complexion (sorry about the pun) on things.
 * I agree I was loading the dice slightly by putting European first, then African, then indigenious. Too broad a brush, perhaps. And if it wasn't accurate...
 * Well, ignorance is most certainly not an excuse, particularly where children are involved/concerned. Ethnicity is not really such an obvious thing; not in words anyway.
 * I greatly appreciate your edits on Venezuela and the rest of WikiJunior South America, and I appreciate your concern. It's not exactly right to have the whole world read about it.
 * I realise I have a lot to learn and I hope I will continue to learn. And I will learn to read my sources more critically and interpret them more accurately. Particularly first-hand ones!
 * Here, by the way, are my sources:

[|Venezuela] and [|Demographics of Venezuela]. --EuropracBHIT 09:42, 17 November 2005 (UTC).