South Korea urgently needs to confront the chapters of its history that have been brushed under the carpet

 

Cultural warriors attacking ‘woke’ history care little for truth. It’s all political theatre | David Olusoga https://t.co/Ki83twHQvB

— mozu (@mozumozumozu) January 25, 2021

Last summer, when the statue of Edward Colston was toppled by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol, there were two clear lessons that could be drawn. One was that Britain was a country that urgently needed to confront the chapters of its history that for centuries have been brushed under the carpet. The other was that those same histories could be weaponised for political gain. It’s not difficult to work out which of those two options caught the government’s eye.

イギリスもーーーまあ、韓国もだけどーーー自分たちが覆い隠してきた歴史の章節に目覚めなきゃいかんよ。

 According to the report, the cause of racial division in America was not two and a half centuries of slavery, a century of Jim Crow and lynching, or even systemic racism and racial disadvantage, but the teaching of the histories of slavery, segregation and racism in schools and colleges.

As short on facts as it was short lived, the report was a plea for the introduction of what its authors called “patriotic education”, the sort of totalitarian phrase that, before Trump, was associated with dictatorships such as North Korea rather than the United States.

現状の教材だって十分アメリカ中心主義、イギリス中心主義、韓国中心主義の愛国教育だろう？

例えば、米国の教科書に米軍慰安婦やフランスでのmass rapeについて教えているのか？