I love living in a city. Being exposed to the vast variety of traditions, cultures and cuisine is, in my eyes, a very fair trade for things like space, safety, and clean air that non-urban areas provide. But whether you’re raising a city kid, country bumpkin, or surbanite, all our children should be educated about the diversity of cultures that exist in our ever shrinking planet.
Meet Moishe, Nafisa, Mary, Chen and Jose. The Babel Blocks represent a wide array of races, religions and cultures that is the melting pot that is New York City. These figures were designed by Constantin Boym and Laurene Leon Boym and were featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit. The five painted wood block characters were based on real living and breathing New Yorkers and each of them have their own MySpace page (natch!) so you can really get to know them. $70 for the set.
