Submitted on Thursday 11th June 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 16th June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Improve education in schools about African and Eastern culture and history
Improve the curriculum so that the only time Africa / the East ever enters is not as a source of slaves for the west, in a whitewashed version of Ancient Egyptian history, or some modern geography about the sociopolitical problems and wars in those areas. This is simply unacceptable.
Africa and the East has been extremely important to the history of human civilisation. They made the greatest leaps in developments in the sciences/maths of any civilisation, only to have their progress wiped out by the Dark Ages. Africa and the East barely enters the British curriculum, and when it does it is usually when we are taught about western interference and investment, or slavery (and even then the realities are not taught in detail at all, or unless History is taken as an option).
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961
Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092
We have also published several petitions about race and equality more widely, which you can view here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=race-and-equality
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