Le racisme explique a ma fille. Per la Scuola elementare (French Edition)
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Le racisme explique a ma fille. Per la Scuola elementare (French Edition)

Mass Market Paperback – February 6, 1998

Price
$18.25
Publisher
French and European Publications Inc
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-2021002812
Dimensions
4.33 x 0.75 x 7.48 inches
Weight
6.4 ounces

Description

About the Author Romancier, Tahar Ben Jelloun est notamment l auteur de La Nuit sacrée et de L Enfant de sable.

Features & Highlights

  • Un enfant est curieux. Il pose beaucoup de questions et il attend des réponses précises et convaincantes. On ne triche pas avec les questions d'un enfant. C'est en m'accompagnant à une manifestation contre un projet de loi sur l'immigration que ma fille, gée de dix ans, m'a interrogé sur le racisme. Nous avons beaucoup parlé. Les enfants sont mieux placés que quiconque pour comprendre qu'on ne naît pas raciste mais qu'on le devient. Parfois. Ce livre qui essaie de répondre aux questions de ma fille s'adresse aux enfants qui n'ont pas encore de préjugés et veulent comprendre. Quant aux adultes qui le liront, j'espère qu'il les aidera à répondre aux questions, plus embarrassantes qu'on ne le croit, de leurs propres enfants.

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Pleading his cause - such a disgusting book

The author is a French Moroccan. The book probably is intended to be used by teachers in schools to educate pupils on "racism".

The author just utters a series of contradictory theses that are common in the discourse of left wing politicians and political activists; those politicians that are responsible for the influx of immigrants that is destroying Europe.

However, he is not a French Frenchman with a left wing thinking but a foreigner pleading his cause.

The book takes the form of a dialog between the author and his daughter.
Just to illustrate the nonsense that is found in this book:

1. He says in one place, that one is not born a "racist" but becomes one through bad parental education.
2. Elsewhere, he says that racism is a natural instinct that prevailed in all human societies.
3. Then he says that people cannot change their personality.

All these statements together are self-contradictory.

He seems to imply that children personality can be moulded through education. (What is the evidence for that? After all the sex drive is a natural instinct too. And races were created partially by sexual selection.)Thomas Hardy was spot on with the quote: "After two thousand years of mass / We've got as far as poison-gas."

I have found all the content of the book weak and doubtful. To use it in education is to brainwash our children with a false history and anthropology.
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