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Turtle Radio is devoted to using multicultural music and stories to encourage character development and the understanding of different peoples. The programming is intended to benefit young listeners who are involved in its creation, with the underlying philosophy that each person is important in the world and can contribute to it.

Why is it called Turtle Radio?

In many cultures, including those of Korea and various Native American tribes, the turtle is the animal that carries the world on its back. In keeping with our philosophy to promote tolerance through a better understanding of multi-cultural diversity, the turtle serves as a symbol of how different cultures have more things in common than things that are different.

Why Turtle Radio is important

The program reaches children with messages that support awareness and understanding of:

The Turtle Philosophy (The Story of the Starfish – Anonymous Author)

A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sear, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.

One day, he learned there would be a low tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand. The day of the low tide, the boy went down to the beach and began picking up stranded starfish and tossing them back into the waves. An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what he was doing. 

“I’m saving the starfish,” the boy proudly declared.

• Cultural diversity
• The challenges of maturing
• Appropriate ways to deal with adversity
• Self-acceptance

When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish, he shook his head and said, “I’m sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach one way, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look down the beach the other way, if is the same. One little boy like you isn’t going to make much of a difference.

The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up a starfish, tossed it out into the ocean and said, “I sure made a difference for that one.”