If you use your Report to Moderator button, I am sure they could merge the two threads.
I share an experience...
1994, regional New South Wales. A neighbour sends her young son (4 year old, not yet school age) to our place with a message "Mum says can I stay here until Dad gets home." Of course I agreed, and quickly made him something to eat while I pondered what was going on... Margaret had not phoned me, the school bus had dropped off her daughter, and the young boy told me his big sister arrived home crying and was still crying when his mum sent him to me. I phoned his Dad's office, but the Secretary said he had already left on a family emergency.
I won't go into all the details BUT it turned out that the daughter was very upset in her class, she was THE ONLY ONE who still had the same mum and dad all the way from her birth. She was upset because she wanted to be like everyone else, but she did not want to choose which parent "to give up" ...
It turned out the class teacher had been talking about family structures and diversity and children on access visits to divorced parents and step families ... and was encouraging her students towards accepting differences, not just based on ethnicity or language or heritage but also at a very practical level eg learning minor rules for each household and cooperating with each of the households rules. ... bedtimes, washing up, tv program choices, how to address step parent, step grandparents etc...
Our neighbours daughter had asked a question and discovered "everyone else" had at least one NEW parent ...
Thus the lass had this very significant meltdown while on her way home after school.
Mr & Mrs neighbour-to-us are still a couple, still keep in contact with us, the lass is now married with young children, the lad has no memory of that afternoon and what turned into an overnight sleep-over at our home.
BUT it took the combined efforts of her mum and dad and her four grandparents who all came straight away, one set drove for around 400 kms non stop., and the class teacher who also came to that home that evening.
Why did I share the above ... well the neighbours were not born in Australia. One was born and raised in Japan of Japanese parentage. One was born and raised in Italy, of Italian parentage. The couple had met in Sydney NSW as adults. They and their respective sets of parents and siblings had migrated to NSW at various times in the 1970s and 1980s.
The teacher had not spoken about racial discrimination, but about step relationships ... So the discussion was not about skin colour or facial features but about the unseen aspects of changes in a childs life in their families.
So it is not always easy to recognise the triggers that lead to discrimination and without that understanding it is very likely that it will continue to be difficult to overcome bigotry. But that is no excuse for avoiding the opportunity to research family history.
I believe that understanding local history in its time and place is very important, as context helps to provide relevance to the family history information being found.
JM edited to correct spelling and grammar ... one finger typing in tiny dialogue box on e reader...