Hamid's Glow-Up and Sloppy Terms: What the Publisher Said

Now it's time for the reactions I got when I made my point about the story. Context After raising concerns about how migration is represented in the textbook, I wrote to the publisher. You can find the whole email here: Hamid's Story and the Politics of Gratitude in a German Language Coursebook. Below is the reply from the publisher, with my reflections right after each part. In the emails below, the parts in bold are what I changed from the originals (anonymisation, removed passages). Email from the Publisher From: Publisher's Representative Date: 1 Feb. 2025, 11:28 MEZ after feedback from our editorial team, we can understand your concerns, but we do not share the same view that a text about personal plans in a textbook at B1/B2 level should also include the topic of the difficulties faced by migrants in Germany. We have to consider that a complete, sociologically differentiated view of a topic cannot be expected in every text in a textbook for German as a foreign language. I…