Alpha Male
Mentor
I tutor on the side to earn money while I am in school. I teach for the SAT, SHSAT (Standarized High School Admissions Test), and other high school subjects.
What I have come to observe is quite startling, but not surprising. Nearly all reading comprehension paragraphs incorporate something that portrays a non-white culture in a positive light, while simultaneously disparaging a white culture, sometimes with subtely othertimes more blatant.
For example:
"In the west, we are most familar with world explorers who were of European origin. Marco Polo, a European traverler to China in the 13th century, serves as a classic example. Some lessor known explorers, however, logged enough miles and adventures to make Marco Polo's journey look like an evening stroll. Perhaps the most far flung of these lesser known travelers was Ibn Batuta, a North Afican who left his birthplace of Tangier in the year 1325...'
It goes on from there to describe his magnificent journey....
And of course another one my favorites...
In reference to a comet..
...In the 21st century, these once-feared objects can be described scientifically. For example, every comet has a head....Nearly every culture has taken the arrival of a comet as a sign of bad luck. Europeans regarded them with superstiton and fear. Only the !Klung people of modern-day Namibia were optimistic when sighting a comet, believing it guranteed a happy future."
Yes, those !Klung people certainly are savy with their astronomy and space travel lately.
Almost good but....
"The tenth century A.D. was a period of cultural and artisitc revival in the European countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The magnificent works or art used, among other material, African gold, ivory, rock, and crystals. But most of these material would not have been unavialble to European artists without the sophisticaterd trading network established along the east coast of Africa, from present day Somalia to norther Mozambique."
It then goes on to disscus the very technically sound sea vessels of the Swahili people.
History books on slavery are even worse. Edited by: Alpha Male
What I have come to observe is quite startling, but not surprising. Nearly all reading comprehension paragraphs incorporate something that portrays a non-white culture in a positive light, while simultaneously disparaging a white culture, sometimes with subtely othertimes more blatant.
For example:
"In the west, we are most familar with world explorers who were of European origin. Marco Polo, a European traverler to China in the 13th century, serves as a classic example. Some lessor known explorers, however, logged enough miles and adventures to make Marco Polo's journey look like an evening stroll. Perhaps the most far flung of these lesser known travelers was Ibn Batuta, a North Afican who left his birthplace of Tangier in the year 1325...'
It goes on from there to describe his magnificent journey....
And of course another one my favorites...
In reference to a comet..
...In the 21st century, these once-feared objects can be described scientifically. For example, every comet has a head....Nearly every culture has taken the arrival of a comet as a sign of bad luck. Europeans regarded them with superstiton and fear. Only the !Klung people of modern-day Namibia were optimistic when sighting a comet, believing it guranteed a happy future."
Yes, those !Klung people certainly are savy with their astronomy and space travel lately.
Almost good but....
"The tenth century A.D. was a period of cultural and artisitc revival in the European countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The magnificent works or art used, among other material, African gold, ivory, rock, and crystals. But most of these material would not have been unavialble to European artists without the sophisticaterd trading network established along the east coast of Africa, from present day Somalia to norther Mozambique."
It then goes on to disscus the very technically sound sea vessels of the Swahili people.
History books on slavery are even worse. Edited by: Alpha Male