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An Army article highlights the service of a Female Engagement Team that has been teaching Afghan children about “cultural diversity.”<\/a>\u00a0 The Soldiers try to promote “international awareness” through exposure to the idea of different cultures:<\/p>\n \u201cThe goal is to promote international awareness among youths through sports and crafts to lay the necessary foundation to create tomorrow\u2019s global citizens,\u201d said Cpl. Isidra Reyna, noncommissioned officer in charge of the FET.<\/p>\n \u201cWe hope to create an atmosphere of global empathy and understanding of cultural similarities and differences,\u201d Reyna said. \u201cAnd, of course, have fun.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hopefully, along with learning about the Australian version of freeze tag, the children will also be exposed to the concept of religious freedom when they realize much of the world isn’t Islamic.\u00a0 While the international effort in Afghanistan has touched on many issues of freedom, some have indicated religious freedom in the area has actually suffered<\/a>.<\/p>\n That might be too lofty an expectation, however, given the class is being taught by non-Muslim yet hijab-clad Americans.\u00a0 Still, they’re being exposed to cultures outside their own, and they’re being inspired to look further:<\/p>\n \u201cI am interested in getting on the Internet and learning more,\u201d said 12-year-old Mohammed. \u201cI knew it was a big world and that there are a lot of different people in it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Army article highlights the service of a Female Engagement Team that has been teaching Afghan children about “cultural diversity.”\u00a0 The Soldiers try to promote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}