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- 1431: Joan of Arc [ExecutedToday.com]
Posted on 09/29/2016 2:03:07 AM PDT by aquila48
Bikini — and burkini — season is over here, but with the new school year, France’s battle over national identity has erupted on a new front: its history curriculum.
School curriculums have long been a part of culture wars, including in the United States, where there have been tussles over slavery and evolution. But in France, where the state sets school programs nationwide, the country’s understanding of its past — and how it uses education to shape young citizens — has become a hot-button issue in a fraught election season.
Changes to how Joan of Arc and other touchstone historical figures are taught in elementary school, as well as changes to how French, Latin and Greek are introduced, have sparked fierce arguments between right-leaning politicians and intellectuals, who believe schools should foster national pride, and the Socialist education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem and her defenders, who argue that the curriculum should reflect changes in society.
In a recent campaign speech and newspaper column, a former prime minister running in primaries for the right-wing Republican party, François Fillon, said France “shouldn’t have to apologize” for its history. And last week, former president Nicolas Sarkozy, also a candidate in the right-wing party primaries, upped the ante. “Once you become French, your ancestors are the Gauls,” he said, adding that students should be taught, “‘I love France, I learned the history of France, I see myself as French.’”
This increasing politicization of education is happening at a time of intense debate over immigration, multiculturalism and national identity, said Rachel D. Hutchins, professor at the University of Lorraine in France and the author of “Nationalism and History Education: Curricula and Textbooks in the United States and France.”
“For politicians, targeting history education provides a simple, rhetorically powerful response to public fears over immigration,” she said.
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Pretty soon the muzzies in France will be agitating to have Charles Martel presented in the curriculum as a mass murderer.
It is globalization of the world. And it is coming fast. I don’t think it can be stopped. That is why they want the internet.
Just the facts, Ma’am...
Western civilization has been shot through with termites. A strong wind will push the whole structure down.
Well, at least they can’t take away all my books on Joan, some translated from the French. She’s always been my heroine and if the French want to throw her under the bus - AGAIN - they’ll learn to regret it.
“The great oak tree had stood on a hill over the Hudson, in a lonely spot on the Taggart estate. Eddie Willers, aged seven, liked to come and look at that tree. It had stood there for hundreds of years, and he thought it would always stand there. Its roots clutched the hill like a fist with fingers sunk into the soil, and he thought that if a giant were to seize it by the top, he would not be able to uproot it, but would swing the hill and the whole of the earth with it, like a ball at the end of a string. He felt safe in the oak tree’s presence; it was a thing that nothing could change or threaten; it was his greatest symbol of strength.
One night, lightning struck the oak tree. Eddie saw it next morning. It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an empty shell; its heart had rotted away long ago; there was nothing inside-just a thin gray dust that was being dispersed by the whim of the faintest wind. The living power had gone, and the shape it left had not been able to stand without it.”
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
France should surrender to the Muslim caliphate now—this slow collapse is just too painful to watch.
No different than what is happening here. The West & whites are under attack.
I never miss an opportunity to hype “Camp of the Saints”.
That book was prescient. Any FReeper who has not read it should, and very soon.
The author lays it all out. Everything he wrote about is coming to fruition, except his antagonists were Hindus, not muslims.
Forget your past, they’re telling us. It doesn’t matter what your country was. All that matters is you are with the new globalist order.
“That book was prescient”
Absolutely!
And we just take it. Worse yet we invite them in. And worst of all it’s the WHITE leftists that are leading the charge.
The West and the whites’ number one enemy (far worse than the muslims) are the self hating leftist whites - the real enemy within.
Epic Rap Battles of History: Joan of Arc vs. Miley Cyrus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQx1sqPHTrk
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