Liyong's and Anyumba's essay

I don't know much about Kenya, but apparently the essay was written after Kenya gained independence in 1964.

The essay makes sense. Why the heck would I vouch for a Kenyan community to be fluent in and prioritize any culture but their own? Sure, let them dance and have drama as a part of their education! We read and write and discuss to learn about ourselves. And they want other cultures' literature to be intertwined on the side, but not be the focus of the study. Makes perfect sense.

It makes me wonder though...if education is so dependent upon identity, and who you belong to...it makes me really feel for African Americans in modern American culture in a way that I've never felt before. It makes me realize. When those kids in the racial minorities open their textbooks and learn about British colonists and the War of 1812 and the Trail of Tears...what the $#@& do they care? Or, they might care but minorly; not nearly as much as they care about their own ancestry, which is not what they're going to get graded on because it's apparently not important.

And when we learn by sitting and reading instead of singing; and when we learn by memorizing facts because facts are important to us; and when we learn about how democracy is better than any other form of government, ect.

This now leads me to wonder where globalization will take us; if our education will begin to homogenize...

Do we want this? What's your gut-reaction?