the french used school textbook in vietnam to justify colonial rule.Explain
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The French used school textbooks in Vietnam to justify colonial rule:
1. School textbooks glorified the French and justified colonial rule.
2. The Vietnamese were represented as primitive and backward, capableof manual labour but not of intellectual reflection; they could workin the fields but not rule themselves; they were ‘skilled copyists’ butnot creative.
3. School children were told that only French rule couldensure peace in Vietnam: ‘Since the establishment of French rule theVietnamese peasant no longer lives in constant terror of pirates …Calm is complete, and the peasant can work with a good heart.
1. School textbooks glorified the French and justified colonial rule.
2. The Vietnamese were represented as primitive and backward, capableof manual labour but not of intellectual reflection; they could workin the fields but not rule themselves; they were ‘skilled copyists’ butnot creative.
3. School children were told that only French rule couldensure peace in Vietnam: ‘Since the establishment of French rule theVietnamese peasant no longer lives in constant terror of pirates …Calm is complete, and the peasant can work with a good heart.
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