Real talk, as a teacher in England I can confirm that the British government does everything and anything to avoid teaching the true extent of colonial history to English kids.
You ask a modern English teenager about Northern Ireland and they probably can’t tell you about fucking anything currently going on there bar ‘I think we weren’t nice to them’, and that’s the country next fucking door so you know they don’t know shit about India or the Middle East.
The English government PURPOSEFULLY does not teach English children the real in’s and out’s of the British Empire despite a recent call to ‘widen the breadth of our curriculum’ because then where would our football hooligans who defend statues come from?
Have a good conversation with any bald headed English bloke wearing an England football shirt with an EDL tattoo and test his knowledge of the Empire he loves so much. 100 quid he knows fuck all beyond ‘we civilized those people!’
And this is why no one fucking likes us, because there’s no active effort to teach our younger generations why we were wrong or how to make things better, but there’s a clear educational agenda to shield young English children from any extensive criticism of England.
To all those who think the Empire civilized the colonies : India’s share in the world economy was around 23% when they first came to the subcontinent and when they left, it was a measly 3%. Just sayin’.
My partner and I had to teach my stepson this stuff because his school certainly didn’t.
[i.d: a tweet by news publication the New York Post, reading: “Scientists can’t explain puzzling lack of coronavirus outbreaks in Africa trib.al/qVOxL7i “ the image attached to the tweet depicts people waiting in line for food, socially distancing from one another, and wearing masks, in Johannesburg, South Africa [context gathered from article linked].
the next tweet is by Kipsang @ KerichKipsang replying to the previous article, “You so desperately want an epidemic in Africa, so much that Melinda gates reportedly told the press In February 2020 that she predicts seeing bodies of dead Africans everywhere.
“We will not die. We are here. We will be here.”
another reply by Tamara @ tamara_lucy: “The racism stinks. BBC did a similar headline. They can’t imagine how African nations could be better run, better organised and more healthy in mind and body than their own. Doesn’t fit with their world view”
a reply to Tamara by Kipsang: “The western media has only one agenda: to portray Africa as ‘the heart of darkness (Joseph Conrad’”
finally, there is a screenshot of a reddit post on r/worldnews, headlined, “Senegal’s quiet COVID success: Test results in 24 hours, temperature checks at every store, no fights over masks” below there is a photo of a Senegalese Red Cross worker spraying a student with disinfectant on the opening day of classes. they are both wearing masks [context provided from article]. end i.d.]
