Tuesday, March 07, 2006

selective history - Crusaders and imperialism

Kevin Donnelly: Moral outrage selective
School texts present the 9/11 terrorists and Christian Crusaders as morally equivalent
Crusades equal to 9/11: textbook
Justine Ferrari, Education writer
March 08, 2006
A textbook widely used in Victorian high schools describes the Crusaders who fought in the Holy Land in the Middle Ages as terrorists, akin to those responsible for the September 11 attacks.
Japanese history textbook controversies
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Japanese textbook controversies is a series of controversies over the government-approved history textbooks used in the secondary education of Japan (junior high school and high school). The controversies primarily concern the constitutionality of the government authorization system itself and the textbook descriptions of the wars and imperialism conducted by the Imperial Japan in the first half of the 20th century that the post-war Japanese government has been accused of whitewashing by the Japanese activists as well as the governments of South Korea and the People's Republic of China.

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