I understand that the interviews from which these comments were extracted were with Year 2 pupils. I suspect that the same and older children, as well as their parents, could make equally limited, possibly media-fuelled comments about people in a neighbouring school, or the inhabitants of a nearby town, let alone a community overseas.
Lincolnshirelad, www.tes.co.ukforums.
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