Reading last night, I had pointed out to me the origin of the word school is
leisure and learning, both.
I checked a modern dictionary with a modern spelling, and indeed the word
means leisure, and is from the greek, though how you decide this is another
matter.
For the point of what I was reading was that the origin of many words, such
as schole meaning leisure and learning is actually from the Egyption. And
the point is that egyptian got blanked out as part of the development of
empire and racism to promote slavery.
Then the point was made that indogermanic as a root language is another
example, and actually means Egyptian.
Considering I have been looking at infopolecon for nearly forty years, I was
fairly staggered that I had never thought of the construction of
dictionaries, though I had rumbled library catalogues a long time ago.
So whenever anyone asks what you mean by institutionalised racism, you can
simply say, "Look in the dictionary." they will say, "It isn't there", and
you can say, "Oh, yes it is.: :)
Now of course all this might be absolute nonsense but given we are in the
UNESCO decade of education for sustainable development, and next years theme
is cultural diversity, and this is the year of Africa, it is a nice chance
to warm things up.
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