Recently we celebrated her birthday, now there is a negative headlines about the love stories of Pippi Longstocking. In a work of prejudice in children's literature has Wolfgang Benz (anti-Semitism researchers) looked at some books more accurate. On the topic of tomorrow he will also hold a lecture and show that often well meaning frameworks can quickly turn into its opposite.
During his research he encountered prejudice against minorities, foreigners, Jews, Sinti and Roma. Even with Pipi Longstocking you would have met with such prejudice!
children heroine Pippi says, for example, "that there is not one person in the Congo who speaks the truth. They lie "all day. In the "Taka-Tuka-Land" Pippi's father is automatically as white king.
"Even with Karl May, there is such a problem," says Benz. be "The Most" Orientals "as either something more stupid than the Westerners, or represented as cunning and evil. This then has the image of Islam influenced generations.
He criticized in particular that many school reading are full of prejudice, but without reflection in the classroom has been used - albeit inadvertently. However, the underlying content taught. BUT, despite all the criticism he could find something Poistives during his work: Gays and lesbians are on the books today, "of course" and will no longer be marginalized.
is the Original link to the following two pages that I would not hide from you:
- Center for Research on Antisemitism
- International Young Adult Literature Library in Munich
The Book of the Benz has written that "prejudice in children and youth literature. " has ka-news
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