YES to Singapore Textbooks!

Seems like I'm reverting back to a words-only blog. Too lazy to save and upload pictures these days cause it's just too damned time consuming.

I was reading my textbooks yesterday and I realised that almost every single textbook we use in NUS are textbooks written by American authors. It's pretty frustrating cause all their examples, writing style and train of thought are American. Like why do I care about the demographics of Ohio or Minneapolis?!? True they are only trying to illustrate examples but I'm pretty sure I would be able to understand better if it was in the Singapore context.

Perhaps this is one way in which America is spreading their culture. Students learn so much about America during their studies that America becomes like a 'promised land' and we take this mentality out into society.

I say Singaporean should study textbooks that are written by Singaporean professors, with a Singaporean style and in a Singaporean context!! I've have enough of trying to understand what it's like in America, having to put all the examples in the context of American society. Do American students have to do that? No, they don't have a clue about what's happening with the rest of the world!

Say YES to Singaporean textbooks!!!!!