10th Class Social Science The Nationalist Movement in Indo-China Question Bank 10th CBSE Social Science The Nationalist Movement in Indo-China

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    Imagine you are a student in the Tonkin Free School in 1910. How would you react to (a) What the text books say about the Vietnamese? (b) What the school tells you about the hair styles?

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                    (a) The text books are highly biased. They are glorifying the French people and justifying colonial rule. In these books, the Vietnamese are shown as primitive, backward and not capable of mental reflection. The text books propagate the myth that the Vietnamese are only capable of working as agricultural labourers, but can not rule their nation. They are very skillful at copying, but not creative. I will definitely not agree to what the text books say and condemn them. (b) The school tells us to keep our hair short, so as to look 'modern.' This is against our culture, as traditionally we have always kept long hair. In any case, hair style is a personal matter and the school can not dictate us, which hair style we should keep.


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