English 'operated as a language of the coloniser', students at top university that produced several world-renowned authors are told

Students at a university that has produced a string of world-renowned authors are to be taught that English ‘operated as a language of the coloniser’.

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia – which boasts Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and the Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Anne Enright among its alumni – is to ‘decolonise’ its courses following demands from students.

The decision is the latest controversial move by institutions to make lessons more diverse – but critics claim it is ‘anti-academic’ and ‘corrosive’.

Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at Kent University, said: ‘The project of decolonising the English language has nothing to do with genuine academic concerns. Associating the evils of colonialism with English literature is more about turning the subject into a political dogma than studying the merits of different writing and authors.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9798379/English-operated-language-coloniser-students-told.html

This is getting beyond a joke

Who are these clowns in charge making these absurd rulings?

It's something to be considered. I know these arguments are coming out, piecemeal, in this discipline or that. There might as well be a curriculum that addresses it directly.

Didgee wrote:Students at a university that has produced a string of world-renowned authors are to be taught that English ‘operated as a language of the coloniser’.

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia – which boasts Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and the Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Anne Enright among its alumni – is to ‘decolonise’ its courses following demands from students.

The decision is the latest controversial move by institutions to make lessons more diverse – but critics claim it is ‘anti-academic’ and ‘corrosive’.

Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at Kent University, said: ‘The project of decolonising the English language has nothing to do with genuine academic concerns. Associating the evils of colonialism with English literature is more about turning the subject into a political dogma than studying the merits of different writing and authors.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9798379/English-operated-language-coloniser-students-told.html

This is getting beyond a joke

Who are these clowns in charge making these absurd rulings?

They are the same ones castigating anyone that doesn't believe that kneeling is "stunning and brave".

Oh, for fuck's sake. Remember the pet brick craze? This all reminds me of that.

HoratioTarr wrote:Oh, for fuck's sake.   Remember the pet brick craze?   This all reminds me of that.

Hahaha... No, that's the fence on our southern border to keep the "drug-dealers, rapists and criminals" from coming in.

Just more anti white British racism from the twat in the OP.


And he can fuk right off!!!

Tommy Monk wrote:

Just more anti white British racism from the twat in the OP.

And he can fuk right off!!!

  So...that's a 'no' from tommy.    

Didgee wrote:Students at a university that has produced a string of world-renowned authors are to be taught that English ‘operated as a language of the coloniser’.

The School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia – which boasts Nobel Prize laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and the Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan and Anne Enright among its alumni – is to ‘decolonise’ its courses following demands from students.

The decision is the latest controversial move by institutions to make lessons more diverse – but critics claim it is ‘anti-academic’ and ‘corrosive’.

Frank Furedi, emeritus professor of sociology at Kent University, said: ‘The project of decolonising the English language has nothing to do with genuine academic concerns. Associating the evils of colonialism with English literature is more about turning the subject into a political dogma than studying the merits of different writing and authors.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9798379/English-operated-language-coloniser-students-told.html

This is getting beyond a joke

Who are these clowns in charge making these absurd rulings?

Having had first hand experience of the intellect of some of the students of the University of East Anglia, I would venture to suggest that the ones behind these ridiculous demands and comments simply do not understand the difference between the words “coloniser” and “connoisseur.”

What the hell does it even mean to "decolonise" a language? It makes no sense without concrete examples.

Apart from that, they are right -- English was a language of colonisers, without doubt. There's a reason that Americans, Canadians, the Irish, Australians, New Zealanders, and people in numerous other countries speak English -- it's because they were English colonies at one point.

Other languages of colonisers include Spanish, spoken throughout most of Central and South America, along with the Phillipines. French, spoken in many African countries, along with Vietnam. Portugese, the official language of Brazil (and probably other places besides Portugal as well).