昨天跟同學討論到一篇文章的結尾說能夠改變現狀的方式就是教育，我說我也這麼認為，可是，想到自己認為應該把在第一世界國家學到的知識拿到第三世界國家進行教育，怎麼想都非常有問題。
同學點頭，說但大部分的理論都來自第一世界國家，我們要怎麼擺脫掉呢，即使產出了第三世界的理論，也可能會因為不入流、非主流而不見用。
知識從來都不乏其政治性。
talked about an article with one of my peers. it ended with ‘the solution of changing the situation is to educate people’ (in third-world countries, specifically) . I said that I agreed, but it’s always problematic when thinking about ‘taking what I’ve learned in the first world to educate my people in the third world’. It’s always problematic. But, what else can we do? My friend said, ‘True, but most knowledge and theories came from the first world countries. Even if we generate our own knowledge of the third world, will it be used, or accepted in the dominant academia?’
what to say? The politics of Knowledge.
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