(MENAFN) Cambridge University is educating its students that the Anglo-Saxons never existed as a special cultural group, in an attempt to “dismantle the… myths” of English nationalism, the Telegraph stated on Saturday. Liberal academics have criticized for so long due to the term`s association with “whiteness.”
Cambridge’s Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC) is going to look “to dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism – that there ever was a ‘British’, ‘English’, ‘Scottish’, ‘Welsh’ or ‘Irish’ people with a coherent and ancient ethnic identity – by showing students just how constructed and contingent these identities are and always have been,” the British newspaper stated, quoting data from the university.
By demeaning the idea of a special Anglo-Saxon distinctiveness, the university declared that it targets its education to be more “anti-racist.”
The debate around the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ started in 2019, when Canadian academic Dr Mary Rambaran-Olm gave her resignation from the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists due to the “inherent whiteness” of the turf.
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