What do you think? "The cultural experience is whitewashed all" discrimination again (Suseong)

"Migrant workers are portrayed as people without white color and with a certain skin color"

Korean Convention against Social Racial Discrimination … "Need to strengthen monitoring of textbooks" emphasized

It was pointed out that elementary and secondary school textbooks do not teach immigrants in our everyday society a subject to respect, but rather perceive them as objects of differentiation. .
On 21 October, the "Joint Civil Bureau for the Response to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination against Racial Discrimination" and the Seoul District Attorney's Office held the "Discuss of racial discrimination in Korea "The Secretary General stressed this.

"Daily News will confirm the aftermath of the refugee issue in Yemen" and "the desire to abolish racial discrimination and raise awareness of human rights in the face of refugees and racism, And the importance of elementary education.

He added: "In the current curriculum," the multicultural society, the human rights of minorities, cultural diversity, and so on. are covered, and racial discrimination is found in the textbooks. "

In the first semester, the social manual emphasizes that" everyone should pursue an equal and happy life "in the second unit," the country which harmonizes with the environment ". person from immigration does not appear.

Looking at photos of textbooks, foreigners who know Korean culture are represented as white, while migrant workers are portrayed as non-white.

Lee criticized textbooks as "cases in which a person with an immigration background as a whole does not appear in an illustration".

When I look at the moral manual of a freshman, what is the appearance of adolescence in a multicultural youth? What are the challenges facing multicultural families? It's a question that discriminates against multicultural families.

"Many textbooks use the term" multiculturalism "in a way that refers to a group of migrants, rather than" respecting a diverse minority culture within a society, "he said. he says.

This director, in his textbook of social culture in high school, said: "Korea is becoming a multicultural society … (Omis) … The Korean people who have long lived with the identity of a single nation points out that this change is not familiar and that there is a negative badessment of the arrival of a multicultural society based on the # 39; ethnocentrism.

He said: "It is necessary to constantly monitor educational materials such as textbooks." "It is necessary that everyone cultivates multiculturalism. Education should be extended not only to students but also to teachers, civil servants, journalists and ordinary citizens. "He suggested.

This two-day conference, to be held two days after the day before, will bring the voice of civil society before the deliberations of the 17th and 19th government reports on the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All forms of racial discrimination. He was ready to point out.

Center for Public Interest Law, Derebang, Minbyeon, Seoul Gyeonggi Incheon Union of Migrant Workers, Asan Center for Migrant Workers, Asian Cultural Solidarity of Human Rights, Center Public Service of Printing of Migrants, Human Rights Research Center Human Rights NGO and civic organizations.

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(Seoul-Yonhap News)