[...] Multiculturalists would rather have students admire the primitive patterns of Navajo blankets, say, than learn why Islam's medieval golden age of scientific progress was replaced by fervent piety and centuries of stagnation.
Leaf through a school textbook and you'll find that there is a definite pattern behind multiculturalism's reshaping of the curriculum. What multiculturalists seek is not the goal they advertise, but something else entirely. Consider, for instance, the teaching of history.
One text acclaims the inhabitants of West Africa in pre-Columbian times for having prosperous economies and for establishing a university in Timbuktu; but it ignores their brutal trade in slaves and the proliferation of far more consequential institutions of learning in Paris, Oxford and elsewhere in Europe. Some books routinely lionize the architecture of the Aztecs, but purposely overlook or underplay the fact that they practiced human sacrifices.
[...] If students were to learn the truth of the hardscrabble life of primitive farming in, say, India, they would recognize that subsistence living is far inferior to life on any mechanized farm in Kansas, which demands so little manpower, yet yields so much. An informed, rational student would not swallow the "politically correct" conclusions he is fed by multiculturalism. If he were given the actual facts, he could recognize that where men are politically free, as in the West, they can prosper economically; that science and technology are superior to superstition; that man's life is far longer, happier and safer in the West today than in any other culture in history. [...]
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Excelente.
ReplyDeleteYo veo algo muy loco, y es que a la gente le interesa hablar y escribir sobre tópicos sorprendentes, novedosos, que escandalizan, que tienen pasión, colorido y cosas así.
Digamos que a nadie le interesa escribir sobre lo que funciona bien y sin sobresaltos ni emociones. Tanto que finalmente se olvidan de que van en hombros de alguien más. Glorifican precariedades mientras respiran su aire ordenado y seguro.
Pasión es lindo sentir por amor, no por necesidad muchachos, a no confundir los tantos.
Después hay que escuchar sobre la superioridad de los aztecas o los incas o los chimba. Te dicen que los aztecas construían ma' lindo y miles de sandeces.
ReplyDeleteNunca mencionan que vivían en la edad de piedra. De la organización social insostenible y su cosmovisión fatalista, nada. Que los aztecas sometieron a todas las etnias cercanas con armas de madera nada tampoco. En fin, siempre con sentimentalismo y sin un esbozo de objetivismo.
El noble salvaje. La pucha que es lindo ser progre.
ReplyDeletey la pucha que es fácil
ReplyDeleteEstudio historia, y si algo me parece muy criticable de la carrera es que se vive estudiando "lo alternativo"
ReplyDeleteLa historia de Estados Unidos, España, Rusia o Inglaterra no existe. Sólo se ven rebeliones indígenas, economías comunales y opresión occidental. Nada que vaya a parecer demasiado "imperialista" para merecer ser estudiado.