education in their own language. Besides, in the last paragraph of the document, it must not be
asked only that the dominant population have the opportunity to learn an indigenous language
but that this is part of all school’s educative plans. Otherwise, the bilingual education could
become into a segregation system with an inferior quality against any principle of equality and
non-discrimination in which this document is based on. If the indigenous languages are part of all
schools, societies could be democratised by not only recognising the indigenous culture, but
also, by expanding the job opportunities for indigenous people as professors in non-bilingual
schools.
Lastly, in addition of incorporating the history and culture of indigenous and afro-descending
people in educational plans and ending racists portrayals of them in educational texts, non-white
students studying in the best and predominantly white schools must be incentivised. The
Ecuadorian education system, just as any other Latin American country, is highly segregated and
middle- and upper-class children rarely have any social contact in equality with afro-descending
and indigenous people. It could be incentivised that private schools grant scholarships and
implement positive discrimination measures in their education system. I believe that the issue of
affirmative action must be emphasised in this document. For example, to say in page two,
second to last paragraph: “such measures are mandatory in racially and ethnically segregated
systems”.