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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because the purpose of the course is to instil a small portion of their literary and cultural heritage into young people. British cultural heritage, not American, or whoever else may happen to write in English. That's certainly not saying that there aren't important works of literature written by non-British authors - of course there are - and if a student decides to study literature at a more advanced level, they may well be studied, but that is not the purpose of the GCSE course.
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Do you have a cite for that being the purpose of the course? It's not something I've ever seen stated anywhere.