Talk:Enderun School

there is a college in the philippines [and i presume in other countries as well] called Enderun which specializes in Hotel/resto management and the like.

any information on that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.213.193.8 (talk) 12:24, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

A paradigm of multiculturalism?
The article in its current form is a characteristic example of neo-Islamic ideas popular in contemporary Turkey, exalting Ottoman official culture using anachronistic terms and demonstrating little sensitivity to other cultures. The fact that a religion is open to converts from all ethnic groups does not make forcible conversion equivalent to modern notions of multiculturalism. How can the modern term "multicultural" be used to describe the Enderun school, when its students were children of the Devshirme forcibly taken away from Christian families and raised to be Muslim? How can the insitution of Devshirme, hated by many of the empire's Christian subjects, be described as having had "a positive influence on the peace and harmony created in Ottoman States"? If a school in a Christian country abducted the children of Muslim families and raised them as Christian, would the authors of this article also portray that "as an early model of multiculturalism because students from different ethnic backgrounds were brought together and learned to live together under a common ideal"? If the authors are so keen on using the modern term "multiculturalism" anachronistically and inaccurately to describe the Devshirme, are they also aware that forcibly transferring children from one ethnic group to another is defined as an act of genocide according to the UN Genocide Convention? Finally, if I were to edit this article and write that the Enderun school was an early model of genocide, would I be banned from Wikipedia as a vandal? Probably so. Will the authors of this article be banned for writing such insensitive monstrosities? Probably not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.0.245.81 (talk) 16:45, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

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