> >
> HemS Goes to prove that I'm pretty naive when I set
my mind to itS I'd
never
> have thought such omission was even
thinkableS
>
> T.
>
Maybe you're just younger? When I went to school,
ethnocentrism was definitely the order of the day. The idea
that other cultures may be equal to, let alone superior to
our European (& specifically in that time, "British")
culture was unthinkable. Nowadays, even in these
comparitively mean & xenophobic times, Australia prides
itself on it's multi-cultural society but when I went to
school, literature that would now be considered pernicious
& racist was used as school texts. I guess that's
something I can console myself with next time our politicians
win a landslide election by vilifying & demonising some
of the poorest & most oppressed people on the planet as
terrorists & people who drown their kids in order to get
the local equivalent of a green card.
(Refugee status).
Rene
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