The BBC has been accused of teaching “politically correct cliches”, after it emerged its website tells pupils “every person in Britain is descended from immigrants”.
The Bitesize website offers a range of online revision materials for UK exams, and in the section for GCSE studies has chapters devoted to “Migration to Britain”.
Pupils are told at the beginning of the BBC’s revision guide that “every single person living in Britain today is descended from immigrants”.
The opening paragraph of the guide dedicated to migration states: “Throughout our history, moving here has changed the people who came and they have changed Britain.
“Our changing population has been an unchanging fact. The story of migration is the story of our nation seen through the lives of all of us.”
The guide states that this includes “the first settlers about 25,000”, along with “Saxons and Danes; migrants who had invaded and settled”.
The guide takes pupils through the Norman Conquests, as well as Jewish, Huguenot, Irish, and finally 20th century post-colonial arrivals.
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