PHILIPPINES: Norway Neocolonialist - Philippines History textbooks
In some Swedish textbooks the Vikings are now identified as long distance traders. I kid you not. This may be one more
reason why a comparative study of textbooks over time would be interesting."
My comment: It occurs to me that Francisco would be the right person to undertake the history textbook project. The
School of Education Library could serve as a repository, and I would urge people in different countries to send him
textbooks. What history textbooks are now being used in Israel, Iran,Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India? We may win the
war, but if history books continue to preach hatred, we shall lose the peace. What about history textbooks in the Philippines
and Indonesia? How about it, Francisco?
Ronald Hilton - 12/19/01
Francisco Ramirez, Professor of Education and Sociology, checked on Norwegian neo-colonialism in his homeland. He
writes: "Couldn't resist looking this up a bit on the Web, turns out that Mindex was acquired by Crew Development Corp,
a fair-sized mining company, in 1999, so the bad guys are now -- Canadian! Though the Norwegians are still fully engaged,
of course.
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