Of course, I'm sure once you provided people with facts about the racism within UK academia and among UK academics they would shove their fingers in their ears.
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Or claim these are isolated cases or simply invented.
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Anyway, I've got far too much of a headache to deal with the toolsheds in the comments individually right now but generally speaking, the idea that academe is separate depending on countries is correct only to a point.
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But as these fields are studied by people far and wide, and that the vestiges of British colonialism and imperialism remains to this day all over this world and in fact informed the ideas regarding Anglo-Saxons, to claim this is a purely American issue would be to ignore...
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...that these ideas did not just appear out of nowhere, and were begun and informed by British imperialist and colonialist ideals.
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And listen, the number of English people claiming to be Anglo-Saxon lately? It's not just the racists at Brexit rallies, that shit is being said on the ISXX listserv so it is not an American problem. It is an everywhere problem.
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Just in case it isn’t clear, the author of the article isn’t me and isn’t a he (I don’t know her nationality). I just don’t want to take credit I don’t deserve.
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Yes I know, that was my error writing my thread rather blearly this morning.
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