Eric Taylor Woods: What the Olympics didn’t say about Britain’s place in the world

Britain is perhaps more deeply entangled with the world than any other country, yet nowhere was this in evidence in the opening ceremonies. It seems that the ongoing controversy over the meaning of Britain’s imperial history, as to whether it should be celebrated or mourned, has led many Britons to prefer to willfully forget Britain’s engagement with the world altogether. Does Britain’s controversial global history mean that it must now reconstruct a hermetic image of itself? I hope not. Without reference to Britain’s global history, there is no way to properly understand the contemporary world, much less Britain or its contemporary multicultural demography.

Mein Blog befasst sich in einem umfassenden Sinn mit dem Verhältnis von Wissen, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft. Ein besonderes Augenmerk richte ich dabei auf die Aktivitäten des Medien- und Dienstleistungskonzern Bertelsmann und der Bertelsmann Stiftung.