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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: guest55
Date: May 28, 2022, 10:39 am
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--- Quote from: SirGalahad link ---
>
> I still maintain that compulsory schooling is one of the most
traumatic experiences of early childhood for people like me, who
didn't want to go to school and just wanted to stay home. When I
first started going to school I remember basically crying all
morning in the playground, and I did that pretty much on a
regular basis for a while until I slowly accepted that this was
how it was going to be now
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My sister used to cry every morning for a long time too. I used
to try and escape as much as possible. My senior year I was
forced to attend night school just to graduate, lol!
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: May 29, 2022, 11:45 pm
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Not just early childhood--I felt the misery of compulsory school
got worse each year.
Then we have university to continue destroying the psyche of
young people. The brain keeps developing until the mid-20s, and
probably by no coincidence, that is how long it would take
someone to get a PhD if they went to university straight after
high school.
Westerners have perfectly honed things so young people's entire
brain development cycles are riddled with nothing but stress and
violence.
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 17, 2022, 8:30 pm
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Victory!
HTML https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2022%2F07%2F16%2Fwoke-dance-school-drops-ballet-auditions-white-elitist%2F
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> Woke dance school drops ballet from auditions as it is ‘white’
and ‘elitist’
> ...
> Ballet has been ditched as a requirement for school-entry
auditions because of its “contentious nature”, with teaching
staff explaining that the traditional mode of dance comes with
the baggage of “white European ideas”.
> ...
> The changes come after the conservatoire undertook work to
“decolonise the curriculum” and take advice from LGBT societies.
>
> Information from the NSCD, based in Leeds, said: “We review
content and have removed ballet from our audition day due to its
potentially contentious nature.”
> ...
> An issue of vocabulary
>
> The issue of vocabulary hinges on ballet’s traditional
terminology – which has led to gender distinctions such as
“ballerina” for women and “danseur” for men – and the everyday
use of “men and women” or “girls and boys” in dance classes.
>
> The split of roles along gender lines, with female dancers
tending towards pointe work and men customarily performing leaps
and lifts, has also been cited as an issue, and the NSCD is
seeking to become more inclusive by tackling distinctions.
>
> Ms McCarthy said: “Ballet has strongly gendered roots in terms
of the movement vocabulary.
>
> “Most of our ballet staff were trained at a time where
divisions in the teaching of ballet were clear and men lifted
women. There was a shift to ladies and gentleman over time but
this is still problematic in relation to inclusion of non-binary
and trans dancers.”
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I always despised ballet for its (characteristically Western)
emphasis on sexual dimorphism.
HTML https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/07/17/10/60361589-11021715-NSCD_is_encouraging_staff_to_use_gender_neutral_words_such_as_da-m-22_1658051923348.jpg
Anyone who still thinks Russia is not a Western country needs to
watch some Russian ballet. And Russia certainly will not be
dropping ballet any time soon. This is evidence that Britain is
less Western than Russia.
For reference:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg43/#msg43
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> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ballet
>
> [quote] Ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins
in the Italian Renaissance courts of 15th and 16th centuries.
Ballet spread from Italy to France with the help of Catherine
de' Medici, where ballet developed even further under her
aristocratic influence. An early example of Catherine's
development of ballet is through 'Le Paradis d' Amour', a piece
of work presented at her daughter's wedding, Marguerite de
Valois to Henry of Navarre. Aristocratic money was responsible
for the initial stages of development in 'court ballet', as it
was royal money that dictated the ideas, literature and music
used in ballets that were created to primarily entertain the
aristocrats of the time. The first formal 'court ballet' ever
recognized was staged in 1573, 'Ballet des Polonais'. In true
form of royal entertainment, 'Ballet des Polonais' was
commissioned by Catherine de' Medici to honor the Polish
ambassadors who were visiting Paris upon the accession of Henry
of Anjou to the throne of Poland. In 1581, Catherine de' Medici
commissioned another court ballet, Ballet Comique de la Reine,
however it was her compatriot, Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, who
organized the ballet. Catherine de' Medici and Balthasar de
Beaujoyeulx were responsible for presenting the first court
ballet ever to apply the principles of Baif's Academie, by
integrating poetry, dance, music and set design to convey a
unified dramatic storyline. Moreover, the early organization and
development of 'court ballet' was funded by, influenced by and
produced by the aristocrats of the time, fulfilling both their
personal entertainment and political propaganda needs.
>
> In the late 17th century Louis XIV founded the Académie Royale
de Musique (the Paris Opera) within which emerged the first
professional theatrical ballet company, the Paris Opera Ballet.
The predominance of French in the vocabulary of ballet reflects
this history. Theatrical ballet soon became an independent form
of art, although still frequently maintaining a close
association with opera, and spread from the heart of Europe to
other nations. The Royal Danish Ballet and the Imperial Ballet
of the Russian Empire were founded in the 1740s and began to
flourish, especially after about 1850. In 1907 the Russian
ballet in turn moved back to France, where the Ballets Russes of
Sergei Diaghilev and its successors were particularly
influential.
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Western, check.
prezi.com/2llvv_y0vyvw/negative-effects-of-ballet-dancing-on-anatomy-physiology/
www.balletforadults.com/4-common-health-conditions-that-affect-dancers/
www.healthline.com/health/ballerina-feet
Health hazard, check.[/quote]
#Post#: 15371--------------------------------------------------
Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 28, 2022, 6:05 pm
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Mainstream academia catches up to what we have been pointing out
for a long time:
HTML https://archive.ph/hH6tn#selection-1333.1-1607.111
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> Golf balls were the product of colonial exploitation,
according to the University of St Andrews - with the game
“imposed” around the world by the British Empire.
>
> The Fife town of St Andrews is known as the “home of golf” for
its 600-year playing history, but the prestigious local
university has now examined the sport’s contentious links in a
new exhibition.
>
> Golf is connected to imperial “exploitation”, according to
display information, because balls were once made using rubber
harvested from colonial territories.
>
> The game itself was also “imposed” across the Empire, the St
Andrews exhibition claims, as British enthusiasts established
clubs from South Africa to Hong Kong.
>
> Cricket - similarly carried across the globe by amateurs from
the UK - was also an imposition, according to display
information that states: “By recreating and imposing British
sports in colonised countries, golf and cricket were spread
around the world.
> “Natural resources from colonised countries were exploited to
make sporting equipment.
>
> “Gutta percha, a natural rubber material found in trees native
to south-east Asia, was harvested to make golf balls for the
European market.”
>
> The information is displayed next to the Karahi Golf Club Cup,
the prize given by one of the many British-founded clubs in
India during the day of Empire. Clubs were also established in
other imperial possessions including Canada, Egypt, Sri Lanka
and Malaysia.
>
> Gutta rubber grew most abundantly in Malaysia, which was
formerly held by the British. Some experts have said that
harvesting the rubber for Western markets caused ecological
damage. Victorian scientists discovered that the rubber was a
perfect and profitable material for covering burgeoning
telegraph wires.
> ...
> The Re-collecting Empire exhibition, running at St Andrews
affiliated Wardlaw Museum until October, also includes displays
arguing that European textile mills created wares inspired by
styles “that originated overseas” in the colonies - and
therefore “exploited the originating culture”.
>
> The Re-Collecting Empire exhibition, which runs until Oct 22,
is part of St Andrews pledge to continue “examining the legacies
of Empire in our collections and exploring how we can build a
more equitable future”. It is part of a broader trend of
academic “decolonisation” accelerated by Black Lives Matter
protests in 2020.
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See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/anti-western-resistance-from-the-counterculture-to-21st-century/msg10946/#msg10946
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/misinformation-about-racial-origins/msg7335/#msg7335
#Post#: 15836--------------------------------------------------
Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 27, 2022, 3:44 am
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Wokeness vs Eurocentrism (you can tell which is which by their
clothes; if you need an additional clue compare the face
shapes):
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEQGqZwZ0aw
Woke comments:
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> It's nothing wrong with what she is saying. She is Somali and
that's a fact. In America everything is segregated by race and
she's just resistant to that thought process. It's okay to fight
against diseased Western narratives.
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> Indians don't say i am a brown man Chinese don't say I am a
yellow man so I now what she saying Somali don't use colour just
somali
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> it's an act of rebellion against white classifications. I get
that.
--- End Quote ---
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> I agree 💯 percent with her. Why call yourself black as
a race whn black is a color that white ppl gave us as a
derogatory slur
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> They gave it to you as a legislative term for a slave caste
(class).
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> RIGHT SHE IS EXACTLY RIGHT WHEN IS THE REST OF THE WORLD GONE
WAKEUP
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> You have no obligation to embody society's role for you,
though that won't protect you and you'd need to still prepare
for how society would treat you. And society's expectations do
deserve to be challenged; imagine for example if you were born
in or visited a country with a caste system where you have less
human rights by default just because of the color of your skin?
You have no obligation to accept such a reality if you are ready
and willing to help change it. Just because society believes you
are something doesn't impart that same obligation onto you.
--- End Quote ---
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> A lot of people don’t want to use black just because that’s
what the white folk gave us that name. It’s not that she trying
to be closer to whiteness she just doesn’t want to accept the
term that European has given us. I don’t see nothing wrong with
it.
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#Post#: 15838--------------------------------------------------
Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: christianbethel
Date: September 27, 2022, 11:38 am
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--- Quote ---
> (Perhaps one day the reaction by students to the term
"Holocaust" will simply be "What's that?")
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That's already happened with zoomers.
#Post#: 15854--------------------------------------------------
Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: September 27, 2022, 11:26 pm
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U.S. "blacks" have Stockholm syndrome with Western Civilization
#Post#: 15858--------------------------------------------------
Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: christianbethel
Date: September 28, 2022, 12:46 pm
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I don't. I just don't have the means to live in an anti-Western
country yet.
#Post#: 15861--------------------------------------------------
Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 28, 2022, 3:39 pm
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You should be trying to turn the US into an anti-Western
country.
#Post#: 15871--------------------------------------------------
Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: christianbethel
Date: September 28, 2022, 6:45 pm
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Hey man, easier said than done. People are ássholes and beyond
help. They're brainwashed/indoctrinated in Eurocentrism.
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