{"id":2992,"date":"2019-07-23T08:52:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2019-07-23T08:52:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:52:42","slug":"21st-century-colonisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/21st-century-colonisation\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Century colonisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">When KSSM was introduced a few years ago, one of the things that they change is the English textbook.\u00a0 Now, for form 1 and 2, they use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/opinion\/columnists\/2017\/12\/311230\/textbooks-do-not-make-teacher\">Pulse 2.<\/a>\u00a0 Of course, it causes uproar among teachers who are concerned with its content.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 There are many topics are not related to Malaysian culture.\u00a0 There is nothing wrong to learn about other people cultures.\u00a0 After all, we aim our younger generation to be global citizens, right?\u00a0 But, isn&#8217;t it ironic if they are not away about their own local culture?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The way I see it, it could be a form of 21st century colonisation.\u00a0 Many might not agree with me.\u00a0 But, regardless of Industrial Revolution and whatsnot, we need to retain our identity no matter what.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When KSSM was introduced a few years ago, one of the things that they change is the English textbook.\u00a0 Now, for form 1 and 2, they use Pulse 2.\u00a0 Of course, it causes uproar among teachers who are concerned with its content.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 There are many topics are not related to Malaysian culture.\u00a0 There is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/21st-century-colonisation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">21st Century colonisation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}