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[Bananiot]

The Ministry of education and Culture is lining up some important and noval ideas for the coming new school year. These include:

1. Exposing high school students to Turkish literature.
2. Contacts between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot students.
3. Joint participation in European Programmes, both in Cyprus and abroad.
4. Formation of societies within the school that will focus on ways to achieve peaceful coexistence, tolerance, mutual respect, cooperation between Turkish and Greek Cypriots, organising of functions of bicommunal content where each community will exhibit elements of its culture but also the common elements will be shown.

The aim of the above is to cultivate a culture of peaceful coexistence and the undertaking of projects by students of both communities to make known the common struggles of both comminities. Also, daily issues concerning both communities, such as music, dancing, dietary customs, finding a job etc, will be touched upon as well as specilised projects for those that have chosen the Turksih language as one of their major subjects.

Things are changing my friends. It will not be easy but this is a very good beginning.

[Kikapu]

Oh damn, they left out "dating", Bananiot.!!

[CopperLine]

Good news indeed. The more the better.

[Nikitas]

Still waiting for the bright spark who will introduce lessons for understanding the other community's language without necessarily speaking it. Getting proficient at speaking a language takes longer, it is dependent on a person having a language "ear" and practicing at getting a decent pronunciation and accent. Speaking also carries a mental block for some people. Understanding to the level that you can read a paper or listen to the news could be taught in one year or less.

[Bananiot]

Why the cynicism Kikapu? Perhaps you do not approve?

[miltiades]

Why the cynicism Kikapu? Perhaps you do not aprove?

I'm sure Kikapu approves just as much as I do .

I'm particularly pleased that our young people will be guided through the understanding process , only by interacting and understanding the other side can we ever achieve the utmost , a peaceful co existence amongst our Cypriot people.

[Kikapu]

Why the cynicism Kikapu? Perhaps you do not approve?

No cynicism intended Bananiot. I believe integration of the communities should also involve "dating" to produce more Cypriots together.

I'm sorry you have misread my post, or perhaps, I was too vague.

[Oracle]

This would be a good thing as part of a broad Humanities curriculum where they study comparative religions, languages for travel, geopolitical historic-social group associations etc.

So it would also naturally cover e.g. Latin, Arabic, Mandarin, Mongolian ....

That would be a good thing ... but the biggest antidote to all this good learning I have found, is seeing that darned flag on the mountainside whilst on shopping trips to Nicosia and knowing you cannot safely and freely travel into your own country because some foreign Turks are keeping you away. Now that is not good news to any child.

Children / teens are of course free to make up their own minds; we cannot brainwash them into accepting such unfairness as being good news, if on the other hand we are also trying to teach them the difference between right and wrong and respecting other people's Rights ....

Overall the Turks remain bad news for our children (unless we hide the truth and bring them up with Turkish propaganda which might be Mr Bananiot's chosen subject for the school timetable ......

[Bananiot]

Why the inverted commas for dating Kikapu? Yes, I thought you took the mickey but it is okay, no problem, I am glad you can see the benefits from such moves.

Oracle, do yourself a favour. Just shut it.

[Kikapu]

Why the inverted commas for dating Kikapu? Yes, I thought you took the mickey but it is okay, no problem, I am glad you can see the benefits from such moves.

Oracle, do yourself a favour. Just shut it.

Oh Jesus Bananiot, I was just trying to be delicate with the "dating" comment, but since that one went over your head, let me put it this way, BOINKING.!

If you do not get that one also, the next word will be XXX Rated.!

Be warned.!