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Swedish textbooks give bleak view of Finland
5.12.2005 at 16:01
Finns have little education and abuse drugs, yet excel in sports, if you trust the picture given by textbooks studied in the schools of Sweden. The books do not say a word of the Finnish-speaking minority in Sweden.
"The picture conveyed by the textbooks of Finns and Finland is fairly dismal and old-fashioned. Just as prejudiced as in the 1960s," says Antti Ylikiiskilä, a Swedish Professor at Högskolan Dalarna, a university in Sweden.
Prof. Ylikiiskilä has studied the image textbooks used in the Swedish school system convey of Finns, the Finnish language and Finnish culture. The textbooks in question were in use in secondary education and in highschools.
The Finn is lacking in education, abuses drugs, plays hooky, dies young and a violent death, but is good in sports, at least. Also, Finland has been to war. This is the image the textbooks convey, Prof. Ylikiiskilä told the Finnish News Agency STT on Monday.
"The image is bleak and bleaker still, if one looks at individual books. The 21 textbooks I went through were published in 2001 or later," he added.
Originally he wanted to find out what textbooks told of Sweden's five national minorities, which were granted official status in Sweden in April 2000. He soon noticed the textbooks kept quiet about for example the biggest minority in the country, the Swedish Finns, who number some half a million.
"I don't know where this comes from, but at least the authors of the textbooks are misinformed," Prof. Ylikiiskilä concluded.
/STT/
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Swedish textbooks give bleak view of Finland
5.12.2005 at 16:01
Finns have little education and abuse drugs, yet excel in sports, if you trust the picture given by textbooks studied in the schools of Sweden. The books do not say a word of the Finnish-speaking minority in Sweden.
"The picture conveyed by the textbooks of Finns and Finland is fairly dismal and old-fashioned. Just as prejudiced as in the 1960s," says Antti Ylikiiskilä, a Swedish Professor at Högskolan Dalarna, a university in Sweden.
Prof. Ylikiiskilä has studied the image textbooks used in the Swedish school system convey of Finns, the Finnish language and Finnish culture. The textbooks in question were in use in secondary education and in highschools.
The Finn is lacking in education, abuses drugs, plays hooky, dies young and a violent death, but is good in sports, at least. Also, Finland has been to war. This is the image the textbooks convey, Prof. Ylikiiskilä told the Finnish News Agency STT on Monday.
"The image is bleak and bleaker still, if one looks at individual books. The 21 textbooks I went through were published in 2001 or later," he added.
Originally he wanted to find out what textbooks told of Sweden's five national minorities, which were granted official status in Sweden in April 2000. He soon noticed the textbooks kept quiet about for example the biggest minority in the country, the Swedish Finns, who number some half a million.
"I don't know where this comes from, but at least the authors of the textbooks are misinformed," Prof. Ylikiiskilä concluded.
/STT/
© Copyright STT 2005
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