Multicultural day photos

Multicultural Day went really well the other day. Apparently the injera got eaten happily.

For the last hour of the day, family and friends are invited to watch all the kids parade in their costumes. Its wonderful to see, and I often marvel at the Korean parents allowing their daughters to come in their amazing (but very large and puffy) dresses. It just never seems to be particularly school-friendly attire!

The parade also makes me feel that here in Australia, we are rather culturally poor, when you consider the regional and national costumes of other nations and people groups. Can’t really say there’s anything particularly Australian in terms of clothes.

There were a few outfits that really caught my eye in the parade. Two “Ethiopian” girls for starters…
Then there was a little girl who had the most amazing clothes with mirrors. I figured the outfit was from somewhere in central Asia, like the Hindu Kush region of Pakistan, or something like that. I spoke to her mum later, who told me they were from Herat in Afghanistan. (Herat is in the west of the country, towards the border with Iran.)
Later I also spotted her older sister.
And then the two of them together at the end of the day.
Such a rich cultural heritage. With Australian (European) culture being so young – about 200 years – we really don’t have anything like that to draw upon.