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Textbook Diplomacy
	History and social studies textbooks are supposed to teach students the truth. But the truth can depend on who's writing it -- or who's in office. This hour on The Changing World, Mark Whitaker explores the nebulous boundary between politics -- and education.
FIRST HALF Share	Apartheid was the law in South Africa from 1948 to 1991. It was easy for the racially divided elite to ignore the realities of life around them. White children could grow up and go to school, without learning much about the system of apartheid that so restricted the lives of other South Africans. In this documentary produced for the BBC World Service, Mark Whitaker examines how school textbooks in South Africa portrayed their history both during and after the apartheid era.

SECOND HALF Share	The European Union is made up of many different cultures and legacies. Mark Whitaker investigates the debate over whether or not Europe should have a common European history textbook.

THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world.

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