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Answered Questions
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- What is the Michif language?
- What does a person need for Métis status?
- How can I appropriatly celebrate or acknowlage Ramadan with the young children in my daycare ?
- What is the correct way to refer to a person who is transexual or cross-dresser? I was in the grocery store recently and turned around to refer to the person in line behind me who was clearly a man dressed in women's clothes. I said "perhaps he" then I stumbled and said "she" and then ended up starting again saying "perhaps my friend here may want to use my grocery points". Can you help me please?
- What is the best way to introduce a Gay couple when you run into them? Just introduce them with their names? Or introduce them as partners: "This is so and so and this is their partner so and so".
- What do people from different cultures eat for breakfast?
- Why Muslims cannot eat pork but they can eat beef?
- How do I say someone is part Black ? If I want to refer to someone with darker skin and I don't know them or where they are from how do I say that ? - second response
- How do I say someone is part Black ? If I want to refer to someone with darker skin and I don't know them or where they are from how do I say that ?
- Do children have to fast during Ramadan ?
- Can you please tell me how to wish someone well who celebrates the winter solstice?
- Do you have the 12 finalists in the photo contest on line?
- When applying for some jobs, there is a check box if I am a 'visible minority' - I think I am a minority - my parents are both first-generation Canadians, but people usually think I'm just a different-looking 'white' person. I've never checked the box. What is meant by that question? Should I be vocal about my background? Will they think I've lied when I go for the interview? (I'm Dutch/Hungarian/Mongolian.)
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