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South Korea: Textbook revision

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 @ 02:19 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: South Korea
Topics:: Gender, Racism

Sewing from Marmot's Hole gives us more background about the South Korea textbook revision. This time it is not about intepretation of history, but about changing traditional gender roles, implicit endorsement of single-child families, and unhealthy focus on the myth of a homogeneous Korean “race”.

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