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Originally Posted by Black~Enthusiasm  Well my problem with this is that education is being messed with not on an objective basis, but in the name of promoting "diversity and countering islamophobia". Not only it will fail at achieving this goal, for Islam's image problem as nothing to do with how british are educated, but this is all done in the name of a political agenda who's worth is debatable.
Also, I could always raise the question of why should britons accept that their cultural heritage is being diminished in school for the sake of this political agenda. |
Being educated under the British Curriculum for the better part of my life, I am inclined to disagree. The way the British are educated
does contribute towards islamophobia and general intolerance. Pupils in the UK learn History from the perspective of Europeans, while literature is exclusively concerned with dead, white men.
Even now they are being educated to fear outsiders, in the media especially. When I returned to London from the christmas holidays, the first thing I saw when boarding the tube was "Chapatti Bomber" on one of those free newspapers. This was interesting, as it would create an association in the minds of people, one that links chapatti flour (used in Indian cuisine) with terrorism. This is not a recent phenomenon. Remember the Disney film Aladin? Notice that while Aladin, Jasmine, all the good guys have an American accent, the evil characters like Jafar have an Arab accent.
How can this problem be solved? I don't know, but denying the cause of the problem will not bring us closer to solving it.