{"id":1153493,"date":"2022-07-19T19:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/19\/white-teachers-pushed-me-into-a-course-i-didnt-like-they-dont-want-us-to-be-like-them\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T19:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:05:38","slug":"white-teachers-pushed-me-into-a-course-i-didnt-like-they-dont-want-us-to-be-like-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/19\/white-teachers-pushed-me-into-a-course-i-didnt-like-they-dont-want-us-to-be-like-them\/","title":{"rendered":"White teachers pushed me into a course I didn\u2019t like; they don\u2019t want us to be like them"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ghanaian-born in Belgium, Rosemary Dede has disclosed that some White tutors at her high school in Belgium informed her mother to enrol her in a fashion school despite her interest in tourism.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a chat on SVTV Africa, Rosemary mentioned that she experienced racism as a Black in Belgium many times. According to Dede, her White teachers suggested that she becomes a seamstress, but understands it as just a strategy to keep Black kids at bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of us are discouraged in school. It happened to me. My teachers wanted me to become a seamstress even though I passed my exams. There is nothing wrong with that, but I didn\u2019t know how to sew, and I had no interest in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They always want to push us into working for them because of racism. The Whites don\u2019t want us to be like them or more,\u201d she told host DJ Nyaami.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moreover, Rosemary indicated that many Blacks in Europe lack confidence in choosing suitable occupations because of discrimination.<\/p>\n

“Many Blacks here are not confident because we are in the minority. A Black may prefer this job, but he won\u2019t try it because there is no Black in that field,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Rosemary Dede said that her mother consulted her before accommodating the idea of sending her off into a carrier she disliked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLuckily for me, my mom asked if that is what I wanted. So I enrolled on another school to study tourism. She\u2019s always been my support system, so I have had it easier,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ghanaian-born in Belgium, Rosemary Dede has disclosed that some White tutors at her high school in Belgium informed her mother to enrol her in a fashion school despite her interest in tourism.\u00a0 In a chat on SVTV Africa, Rosemary mentioned that she experienced racism as a Black in Belgium many times. According to Dede, her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1153494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2273,342,18492,3483,3852],"class_list":["post-1153493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-didnt","tag-dont","tag-pushed","tag-teachers","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}