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Re: You forget, we were a colony once. Danae al'Thor Send a noteboard - 10/05/2010 09:40:57 PM
And the medium of instruction in most private schools in a city proper is English.

A lot of the school English curriculum is full of the Dead White Man, as passed on to us by Alive White Men Who Are Now Dead. The more desiccated, the better.

In Universities in bigger, more established cities, this has changed, but not so much that a teacher's pet wouldn't know George Eliot.

I think our media of instruction and our recent political histories have a bearing in the matter.
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