Tues/Wed, February 9/ 10: Racism paragraph

 SHAME

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From page 129 from part III of  Born a Crime

In class: we are reading and considering the following observation that Trevor Noah makes about  British, as opposed to how the American and South African educational systems, handle racism. 

Assignment: 1. fill in the short graphic organizer below, incorporating information from the reading.

                      2. Compose your own your own paragraph that responds to the following: How does the British attitude towards racism differ from the American and how has this impacted American society?

Minimum 250 words. 

MLA heading (your name)

                        (instructor's name)

                        (racism)

                        (10 February 2021)

Proof read for language conventions: spelling, punctuation and capitalization) 

Two writing grades: one for content, one for language. 

Due by midnight on Wednesday, February 10

In Germany, no child finishes high school without learning about the Holocaust. Not just the facts of it but the how and the why and the gravity of it—what it means. As a result, Germans grow up appropriately aware and apologetic. British schools treat colonialism the same way, to an extent. Their children are taught the history of the Empire with a kind of disclaimer hanging over the whole thing. “Well, that was shameful, now wasn’t it?”

In South Africa, the atrocities of apartheid have never been taught that way. We weren’t taught judgment or shame. We were taught history the way it’s taught in America. In America, the history of racism is taught like this: “There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin Luther King Jr. and now it’s done.” It was the same for us. “Apartheid was bad. Nelson Mandela was freed. Let’s move on.” Facts, but not many, and never the emotional or moral dimension. It was as if the teachers, many of whom were white, had been given a mandate. “Whatever you do, don’t make the kids angry.”

 

	British racism / colonialism	American / South African racism
What is taught in schools? “find text”
What emotions are encouraged? “find text”
How does what is taught affect their society? Consider some emotions that might impact behavior? policies?