//my young son was really scared of these faceless people. It's intimidating clothing.//
Really? As a parent our job is to educate and remove suspicion and unnecessary fear from our kids,maybe a good start would be to go on the internet to show them people of the world whose colour, cultural dress differs from ours and that not everyone who is different needs to be feared and held in suspicion.
//I saw a picture in today’s paper of three (presumably) women clad from the top of their head to their feet in what can only be described as a black dustsheet. There was no indication that what lay underneath was human.//
Omg I nearly choked to death in laughter after reading that and these comments would be so sad if they weren’t scandalously hilarious.
Was the figure a biped? Walked upright? Had 4 limbs, 1 head and was devoid of tentacles, a trunk, horns or a tail? Didn’t just exit a saucer shaped flying object? Was In a populated area not trying to eat people?!Then I’m pretty sure it was a human.
It’s no wonder with adults amongst us who see other cultures as scary faceless non human monsters that we then project our irrational fears or PHOBIAS to our kids and grandkids thus never ending the cycle of scaremongering and mass hysteria.
We really need to think long, hard and deep about what we’re foing here.