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awful little tribes. And even if some of the migrants weren’t Scousers, they were labelled ‘lowlifes’, they were farmers, construction workers, and factory labourers. Some of the people here in Wolfland detested them.”
“But you said ordinary police officers and soldiers too? Good people! There must have been teachers, and doctors, and engineers?”
“There were! And with our engineering heritage Wolfland is a stable place. Always has been. We have clean water too! You might describe us as solid, down to earth, honest, reliable people.”
“In Wolfland, and elsewhere, there were pressure groups that were worried that these migrants, all bringing their small family tribes with them, as part of a big alien culture, would change our way of life. There were protests calling on us to reject the ‘peasants’. They weren’t peasants though, they were ordinarily people like you and me, escaping a brutal, toxic regime.”
“But it all settled eventually?” asks KristalClear.
“It took more than a hundred years for the animosities to settle down. People had to be re-educated. It all comes down to education in the end. If you have blinkered people in charge of the education system you get a lop sided approach to learning. Repeating a misguided message simply reinforces it. Over time it amplifies it. People come to believe some things which have absolutely no basis in fact. And then they refuse to listen to reason. Because they’d been brainwashed.”
“Wolfland had its share of propaganda in education. Maybe it still does. You’ll need to ask the Provost why schools don’t teach you history properly. And Civics. Civics in school is too much about society’s structure and organisation, and not enough about society’s people! The curriculum needs to cover more, to cover responsibility, compassion, family life, duty and obligation. Maybe that’s not history, nor Civics, maybe that’s a new subject with a new name? It’s in the original Penrith Chronicles if you read them, I don’t remember it being in the school text book. Opinions and habits formed at an early age
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