Czech primary school textbook under fire over ‘racial stereotyping’ of Roma

Government council for Roma minority demands withdrawal of children’s schoolbook due to stereotypes of ‘dirty, thieving Gypsies’

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Brian Kenety | 08.11.2011

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The 2005 edition of Čítanka, a textbook for second-year primary school students

The Czech Human Rights Commissioner is calling on the Education Minister to withdraw the current edition of the second-year primary school children textbook Čítanka due to the inclusion of a story in which a mother explains to her daughter all about “dirty thieving Gypsies,” Mláda fronta Dnes reported Tuesday. The author, however, clearly aimed to spread a message of tolerance.

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