All I want to do is sit down on the couch and read a God damn book of my own fucking choosing (Harry Potter to be exact), instead I have to plonk myself at my desk, pouring over extracts from the Tempest and write my essay.
Then I have to study for my culture test. If I wanted to learn about culture I’d go to the fucking country (and I will one day). What is sitting in a classroom going to teach me? Why is it necessary to teach us “about the culture”? I get it that we shouldn’t be ignorant blah blah blah but that doesn’t make history compulsory or politics or legal studies so why should those of us who are trying to become less ignorant by, hey LEARNING a foreign language be subsequently forced to learn about a culture that I don’t rightly believe can be “taught” anyway.
I reckon there’d probably be an astounding number of people who have no idea about the Holocaust. Why isn’t it necessary to teach everyone about that in effort for it to never be repeated ever again, but it’s necessary that I know who Berlusconi is and what he’s up to?
I know that the culture is a part of the language, especially when it comes to the diversity that is the Italian language, but making it compulsory is so not cool.
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