The proportion of Chinese students in Sunset Elementary School exceeds 70%, and the remaining 30% are all white.
This ratio does not represent the proportion of Chinese and white people in Nyasaland, but it is still barely acceptable in the eyes of Louis Botha. At least based on what we see now, Nyasaland is not the extremely xenophobic person it is said to be.
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Returning to the reception room of Sunset Primary School after lunch, Louis Botha had a deeper understanding of Nyasaland’s education system, especially the curriculum of Sunset Primary School. As an adult, Louis Botha felt that the curriculum was
A bit too dense.
Starting at eight o'clock in the morning, there will be four classes in the morning until 12 noon, followed by a two-and-a-half-hour lunch and lunch break. In the afternoon, starting at 2:30, there will be another four classes until 6:30 in the evening.
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In addition to Chinese and English, the courses offered by Sunset Primary School also include mathematics, history, social practice and physical music.
This is the first time for even Roque to see the specific curriculum, but the status of physical education, music and beauty here is more important, especially physical education. There are four periods every week to ensure that students have sufficient time for activities.
Louis Botha did not ask why there was no Boer language. If he asked, he would be making himself uncomfortable. Nyasaland did not ban the use of Boer, but it did not promote it either. The attitude of not asking is the most fatal and will be forgotten slowly. If you don’t believe me, just ask any student. Most likely they don’t know Boer or the official language of southern Africa.
"What is the content of social practice?" Louis Botta has a focus.
“The social practice class has the richest content, mainly various visiting experiences. We will use the social practice class to organize students to visit museums, farms, factories, scientific research units, police stations, and military camps, so that students can have an understanding of all walks of life in society.
Full understanding can make students cherish their current life more and stimulate students' interest." Pierce finally returned to normal, and the principal who did not ask for anything was still a good comrade.
Louis Botta is disheartened. The gap is all-round. Students in Orange only have four classes a day. Considering the teaching level of the teachers, the quality of teaching cannot be expected.
Students in Nyasaland have eight classes a day. The teaching quality is better and the teaching content is richer. It is like a person who is richer than you and works harder than you. The current gap cannot be reflected for the time being. If you only look at the students
The test scores of Orange students are not bad either, but after graduation, the gap in overall quality will expand infinitely.
Examination scores can be deceptive. Southern Africa does not implement joint examinations, which means that the examination papers are different in each state, and the difficulty of the examinations is naturally different.
The teaching level in Orange State is not high, and the difficulty of the exams can be imagined. For the sake of political performance, the state education bureau will also use less difficult test papers, so that students' scores will be higher, and the education bureau officials will be able to look good.
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As for museums, there are no museums in Orange. The only state library is in Bloemfontein, which was built with federal aid.
What embarrasses all the Boers is that most of the books in the Orange State Library are in English and Chinese, with few books in Boer. The Orange State government does not have the ability to organize large-scale translations.
Just translating it is useless, you have to pay to print it out.
"What about history?" Louis Botha was very curious about what would be written in the history textbooks of Nyasaland. What is there to write about in just ten years of history? You can't write about British history. It is simply too dark and terrible to watch.
"The content of our history class is compiled based on Chinese history. To put it bluntly, all ethnic groups in the world, including us Chinese, can only take a look at the history. Other ethnic groups either have no history or no inheritance. I think
When studying history, you can only make up nonsense. Some history books are better than reading the Bible." Pierce was really rude, and Louis Botha's face was really ugly. The Boers are a nation without history.
The Boers began to gradually form in the 18th century. The original Boers were Dutch. The word "Boer" means "farmer" in Dutch. Later, with the addition of immigrants from other ethnic groups, the composition of the Boers also changed.
It's very complicated. Boer is actually a Dutch dialect mixed with French, German, Malay and Xhosa, so the history of the Boers is really nothing to write about.
"The history of the Chinese is very complete?" Louis Botta didn't mean it, he really didn't know.
"Of course it is complete. We have a complete inheritance. Since we Chinese established the first country, each inherited dynasty will record the history of the previous dynasty in detail. We Chinese believe that we can judge gains and losses by using history as a mirror. This sentence always reminds us not to make mistakes.
Mistakes made by our ancestors—" Pierce missed the point.
"Louis, we Chinese have a history of five thousand years of civilization, earlier than the birth of the Holy Son." Roque knew how to hit Louis Botha harder.
"It's a shame, you are blasphemous -" Louis Botta blurted out as expected.
The Son of God that Roque mentioned refers to Jesus. In Western chronology, the year Jesus was born is AD 1. Roque is not sure which year AD 1 is relative to the Chinese chronology, but in Roque’s memory
, BC dates are really everywhere in history.
"How can this be blasphemy? The Holy Son is with me." Rock emphasized immediately.
In the past, because Protestantism was the Church of England, it was not worried about its development in southern Africa. As a result, Catholicism took advantage of it. In other states in southern Africa except Cape, there are more Catholic believers than Protestants.
After realizing this mistake, the Protestants gradually increased their investment in southern Africa. Many public facilities in Nyasaland were donated by the Protestants. Only then did the Protestants gain the same status as Catholicism in Nyasaland. p>
It is so difficult for even the British state religion to enter Nyasaland. You can imagine the price the Catholics paid to build a church in Nyasaland.
By the way, Frank is now the archbishop of the Catholic Diocese in Southern Africa, and is said to be qualified to participate in the competition for the next pope. Roque doesn’t know if history has gone astray.
Louis Botta was not obsessed with how great Five Thousand Years was, but asked for a history textbook, saying he wanted to take it home and read it slowly.
This requirement can be met. Roque simply brought Louis Botha a set of Nyasaland Primary School textbooks, which were bilingual versions in Chinese and English. As for whether Louis Botha could understand them, Roque didn't care. p>
Back at the Rhodesian Hotel, Louis Botha was particularly silent during dinner.
Xiao Si came to have lunch as usual, and as soon as he walked in, he slumped down on the chair and looked unrecognizable. It was said that he had gone hunting in the countryside for a day.
"Are there any wild animals in the countryside now?" Rock really doesn't know. Stoudemire loves hunting, and Rock also went there once, but he really has no interest and no time.
"I have a hunting ground, but you Chinese are just too diligent. Nyasaland used to be full of wild animals and was a paradise for hunting. Now there are farmlands everywhere and you can't even see a pheasant. You are destroying the ecological environment."
This is really not a complaint. He doesn’t care what it means when the hunting ground turns into farmland. He is suspected of becoming a virgin.
The rich people's way of solving the problem is simple and crude. Although the land in the suburbs of Little Rock has been turned into farmland, the barren mountains in the outer suburbs cannot be used, so Xiaosi bought a few mountains and circled them as hunting grounds.
There is no need to ask Roque for a favor for this kind of thing, just use money. The Nyasaland State Government and the Little Rock City Government are also a bunch of money-grubbers. As long as the money is given, they can say whatever they want.
"Go to Tanganyika, there is no guarantee of pristine ecology." Roque is not angry. If Nyasaland wants to develop, it must encourage wealthy people to consume. We can't count on those pitiful farmers who take money from chicken butts.<
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"Hurry up and capture Tanganyika, and we can go fishing in Lake Victoria." Xiaosi has big dreams, but he needs Rock's help to realize them.
"Lake Nyasa and the North Sea aren't enough for you to fish?" As long as the Germans don't look for trouble in the past two years, Roque will not bother the Germans.
"You have to fight sooner or later anyway." Xiaosi said casually and didn't care.
Louis Botta was frightened when he heard this: "Sooner or later?"
Louis Botha was a soldier and was very sensitive to the consequences of war. If it hadn't been for the Boer War ten years ago, the Boers would not have fallen to where they are today.
Now Tanganyika is still a German colony. What Rock and Xiaosi meant is that sooner or later a war will break out between southern Africa and Tanganyika. This makes Louis Botha very worried. He is worried that the entire southern Africa will be invaded by Rock.
Drag into the abyss.
"That's for sure. How can we allow others to snore and sleep on the side of the bed!" Xiaosi is full of domineering.
"What do you mean?" Louis Botta was surprised that Stoudemire actually knew Chinese.
"Not learning is really uneducated. There are more and more Chinese people in southern Africa. If you don't know Chinese, it may be difficult to work in the future. Your Ministry of Agriculture also has more and more Chinese people. If they chat in Chinese, but you don't know what they are talking about, will you?
Are you depressed? I guess they laughed and scolded you, but you didn’t even know." Xiaosi is sinister.
"That's nonsense!" Before Louis Botta could say anything, Roque shouted in disbelief. Such words should not be said, as they are not conducive to unity.
"Staff in the Ministry of Agriculture always use Boer or English during work." Louis Botha still has sense and will not affect his evaluation of the Chinese just because of one or two sentences.
However, what Stoudemire said does make sense. According to the current development trend, there will indeed be more and more Chinese in southern Africa in the future. Now there are many white people in southern Africa learning Chinese. The Transvaal and Nyasaland are
Directly promoting Chinese as a teaching language, Rhodesia also has this trend. Chinese and Boer are both elective courses, but most students take Chinese as an elective, and very few students choose Boer.