I love your sharing. And I totally understand your worries. I am from Chinese. My skin color, eye color, and hair color make me more noticeable in this countries comparing to the time when I was living in my homeland. Sometimes, I can feel people’s eyes fastened on me, especially kids. Most adults will try to avoid staring at others, but kids are different. Kids are not tied to social rules. They will express their emotions more directly. In my experience, most kids look at you full of curious, they are growing angles, their world views haven’t been developed yet. Most of the time, I would try to smile at them if we made eye contact, then I would have another interaction with their parents. Some of the parents will smile back if they notice the smiling moments between me and their kids, but some will just ignore me. I always feel bad for those kids whose parents had the distant faces.
Once when I was shopping in Food Lion, a little boy smiled at me first, I smiled back. Then when we run into each other the second time, I saw him mustering the courage to talk to me. He asked me if I was Korean. I was surprised that questions since I did not see that coming. I wondered if he had former experience with Asian people who came from Korean. I told him that I was Chinese, not Korean. I could tell that he had more questions coming up, but his dad showed up at the corner, and he said bye to me a little unwillingly. After I left the store, I wondered where the conversation would go without disturbing.
The education about diversity always comes from the parents first. I feel I am powerless to help with the parenting part. However, I believe even just a brief moment can change someone’s life. I hope in all those short moments owned by the kids and me, I add something nice to their heart about humanity and diversity. I think that is something we can do starting from today.

I am glad to read about how you take the GEDI metaphor to a deeper level, especially the lightsaber part. I have never noticed in the movies that “The dark side… always red” and “diversity is a major part of the GEDI lightsabers. ” That is definitely a very creative interpretation. I agree that seeing the world in absolutes will lead us to darkness, the inclusive thinking is the bright path. We need to have more gray areas in our perspectives and teaching. People are always seeking for “correct answers” and “absolutes”, but we need to admit that in a diversity world, difference and gray areas are allowed and even encouraged. Great job on this blog! I like your creative thinking.