Cambridge, Massachusetts student Cece Walsh declined to list any “positive” effects of imperialism on her homework assignment, arguing that the assignment “appeared to downplay the killing of Africans and the pillaging of their lands and resources by using phrases about how the Europeans ‘obtained land’ or merely ‘took control’ of colonies.” (Photo: Twitter/@CallaWalsh)
A Massachusetts student’s response to a homework assignment went viral Tuesday after the high schooler refused to list “positive effects of imperialism” but included a long list of its negative impacts on communities throughout history.
Cece Walsh, a 15-year-old student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public high school outside Boston, thought of numerous harmful effects of governments which expanding their influence and power by force, including the “genocide of Indigenous peoples,” slavery, “destruction of cultures and traditions,” “forced religion,” and the exploitation of the planet.
— source commondreams.org | Mar 23, 2022