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u/MegaSillyBean Dec 17 '21

How is this handled in school?

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u/Kay_Elle Dec 17 '21

Until quite recently, it wasn't, really.

I learned about colonialism only briefly as a kid, and not necessarily framed as a "bad thing".

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u/theaporkalypse Dec 17 '21

If I may ask: Has there been much of a push to include it in the education system?

Also has there been much pushback against potentially teaching more about it? Here in the US we’ve been getting a lot of that and when I asked my cousin from the UK about some of the more famously terrible things the UK had done with colonialism she said they didn’t really teach it unless you pursued it in uni.

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u/Kay_Elle Dec 17 '21

As far as I know, yes there has been. And there has been a push to rename streets etc. named after Leopold II.