Parents in Karlskoga in central Sweden are up in arms over what they see as racist and sexist passages in a book designed to help first graders learn how to read.
“The book is entirely inappropriate and solidifies outdated stereotypes about diversity and gender, things which our curriculum is designed to work against,” said the county's equality strategist Bruno Rudström to the Karlskoga-Kuriren newspaper.
One passage of the book portrays a little boy with thick glasses sitting alone.
In explaining why the boy is alone, the book offers the following explanation: “Because he is a Jew.”
Entitled, Kom och läs! ('Come and read!'), the book was published in 1999 and is the first in a series called Förstagluttarna, a common nickname for first graders.
Elsewhere in the book, boys are portrayed as being skilled in mathematics, while the girls have trouble counting.
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