Posted on 08/25/2009 3:02:48 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Primary schoolchildren are set to learn about Mexico up to the 1500s
A row has erupted in Mexico after the government distributed a history textbook to primary schools which makes no mention of the Spanish conquest.
The chronology of the text neatly avoids the issue by ending before the Spanish arrived in the early 1500s.
Some opposition figures have seized on what they see as a calculated omission.
The arrival of the conquistadors resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people and the colonisation of Mexico.
On Monday, as 25 million children started the new school term, the government has found itself in the middle of a controversy it apparently did not see coming, says the BBC's Stephen Gibbs in Mexico City.
The new history textbook, published and distributed free by the education ministry, omits what historians agree was one of the most important eras in the country's history - the arrival of the Spanish led by Hernan Cortes in 1519 that led ultimately to colonisation until Mexico gained independence in 1821.
Some opposition politicians have accused the conservative government of President Felipe Calderon of deliberately discouraging a critical analysis of the conquest.
The government is even accused of being closer to the Spanish conquerors than to Mexico's indigenous population.
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which makes no mention of the Spanish conquest.
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The slaves suffering under Montezuma would have called it LIBERATION!!!
Yep, usually with (bleached) blond hair.
Quite so. But the various tensions in Mexico threaten to bust open in *some* direction, who knows what. Vincente Fox’s PPP has probably created the greatest internal migration Mexico has seen since the Yaqui deportation.
I was surprised that the last presidential election didn’t bust open in the city, after the leftist loser decided to call for a soft revolution. More than anything else, this is the good news that the Mexican people are themselves worried, and don’t want to lose a good thing. But out of the city, there are too many unknowns.
Another one I’m concerned about is the Santa Muerte cult, which just needs a charismatic leader to become a major pain. Then there is that little pig down in Venezuela who would love nothing more than to see Mexico go up in a sheet of flame.
And no matter what, the drug families willing to fund it.
I think the Brits torched at least that many people in Hamburg, Bremerhaven and a couple of other places IN ONE EVENING'S BOMBING.
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I see no problem with this format as long as there is a part II at some point in the students’ futures; in fact, it is probably a sensible place to separate their history (as we have history classes from the native Americans through colonial America, for instance).
It could be worse for Mexico; they could have been the Belgian Congo...
Mexico was probably the only Western Hemisphere independence movement (outside of Haiti) where true “natives” played a major role, unlike ours and the other countries of the western hemisphere born afterwards(European settlers versus European Government).
There are documented cases of folks during the French revolution being torn limb from limb and fed to animals, and one notorious case of the leader of a demonstration tearing open the chest of an aristo and taking a bite out of their heart. I wonder if that's where Spielberg got the idea for a certain scene in "Temple of Doom."
Strikes me that's a matter of opinion.
Another opportunity for the Marxists to warp young minds lost.
Well played, sir.
Thank you for posting that picture in answer to the question.
And let’s not forget Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge,
I just finished reading "The Monster of Florence" today and there's a story the author tells about a Neapolitan gang boss named Catapano. In prison, he learns that the man who killed his brother is in the same prison, a man whose heart and liver Catapano has sworn to eat. The authorities try to keep them separated at opposite ends of the institution, but when Catapano learns that his enemy is in the prison infirmary, he uses a sharped spoon, takes guards hostage, and eventually gets into the infirmary. After killing the other man, he demands the doctor give him a quick anatomy lesson and show him the heart and liver. Catapano pulls them out, one in each hand, and takes a bite of each.
Apparently he became quite the hero around Naples for that exploit.
It's all a matter of perspective...
And hey, that stuff they still have going on in Congo beats the heck out of what the Aztecs were doing.
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