Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 22:13:47 -0700
From: "Marlene R. Atleo" <maratleo-AT-island.net>
Subject: Re: postcolonial-digest V2 #981


Thanks Bram...
Thats a good point and suggestion....




At 12:29 PM 5/14/99 -0400, you wrote:
>> Saw something on CBC last week about the Scouting Movement having a problem
>> with a B-P movement that seemed to be getting new "programs" directly from
>> the English organization....
>> Clearly this is a live issue....but the colonial subtext seems to be aimed
>> at immigrants big time!
>> I guess its like the Life Skills programming for First Nations
>> people...especially the one founded in Saskatchewan for the mentally
>> disabled...no cross cultural recognition here!
>
>I know that the Scout movement is pretty big in many Jewish communities
>(esp Moroccan Jewish) -- don't know whether that's more generalized in
>Morocco and-or other North African countries however.  Sorry.  Globally,
>the various Pioneer movements in Communist countries provide analogues or
>comparisons in many instances, and may have been the source of analysis in
>various places.  I guess a good starting point would be to see who's
>tracked the global diffusion of Scouting; I imagine that some sort of
>institutional memory within the Scout movement would be unsurprising.
>
>cheers
>Bram
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