Lippi-Green: Teaching Children Due Thursday 13/3/08 Options

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hi dears!
These subject is about language of good and bad characters that I
really haven`t paid any attention before, for as you can imagine we
are not familiar with accents in English and we have watched these
movies in translated versions, so I didn`t take notice of language and
accents. However, the race discrimination remains recognizable both in
movies and cartoons. I have had the similar thoughts before reading
this article; moreover I talked about this subject with my classmates.
The worst situation in it is that children watch these films and they
are not have their own opinions yet, as a result they begin to adapt
themselves to imaginary movie scenes; they become Peter Pans, Robin
Goods, Spidermans, terrorists, hackers, thieves or someone else who
they admired in movies and cartoons. Although they name these movies
as an entertainment, besides that these movies become our educators,
our virtual educators with its bad and good sides. In fact, media has
very greet influence on peoples` life-style and thoughts. For example
for many years Armenians have been spreading rumorus about
extermination of Armenians by Ottoman impire government. However,
Armenians themselves have been exterminating Turkish and
Azerbaijanians for many years and they haven`t stopped their violence
against us. By the help of Media they want to creat a movie about
their ridiculous statement, and they invited very famous actor, M.
Gibson to play hero. And can you imagine why? Because they know that
it would be more attractive if famous one take place in it. In adition
they can easily make people accept the false information as real. I
can give an example from the fact that for many years we have believed
that Hitler treated Jewess badly; he gave an order to exterminate
them. But in fact, he was a man who collected Jewess from different
parts of world and took them to Israel-the place that they dreamed day
and nights, as a result was created a Jewess country Israel, but
before that time they were spread all over the world. This is reality,
but the famous movie `Pianist` tries to convince us of the truth of
their tragedy. This movie is so convincing that you can disagree
having known the reality. And there are so many movies with similar
subject and these are all very successful nowadays.
Author gives us the useful informations about Disney movie and
cartoons and questioned the intention of making that movie or
cartoons. Is it really enjoyable or can be other goals in making
films? Do the films carry out educational purposes or are these only
weapons to destroy minds and lifes to adapt to the imaginary movie
scenes that have not any relation with reality? Results of the
analyses show us that accents and heavy languages of different nations
were given intendedly in the most of the movies and cartoons. Racisim
and discrimination playing the main role in peoples` lives and this
fact passed to Media, too by the people who support racism and
discrimination. It is obvious in characters language settings when
heroes speak with MUSE correct English, while ontogonists and bad
characters speak English language with accent and heavy spelling. Not
only languages of the characters, but also characters life styles and
their living conditions have influence on spectators` opinion forming
processes.
If there will be script writers who has sincere purposes with creating
movies or cartoons which will remain only as entertainment for
children and adults theye are welcome. But now we can`t name these
movies and cartoons educational for children. What can a child learn
from the "Over the Edge" cartoon while hero is a professional thieve.
Ofcourse, there are also, good characters in it, but it is not enough,
for child can adapt both right and wrong. In adition, children are
not responsible for their actions, and they are not in the age of
making right descisions, they can easily choose a wrong lifestyle for
themselves.
I watched many movies and cartoons recently and I can say that new
movies have more colloquial, bad language and swear words in it. I`m
thankful to Allah that I watched these films alone, not together with
my brothers, for it would be very shameful for me. And I wander
whether children watched OddLot Entertainment production film,
producer Lexy Alexandr "Green Street Hooligans" or not. This movie
consist of only swaying words (f....) and nothing else, beside that
crime, drunk adults, immoral behaviors are the main subject in
movie.
There are no any close family relations that could be a good example
for the children or adults. To tell the truth I never sit and watch
movies together with my family, for I know that almost every movie has
erotic scenes, bad language. For our customs and mostly for Islam
these scenes are not moral. I`m against these immoral movies and
cartoons which have gender problems, racism and discrimination scenes
in it. We should be very cautious about choosing cartoons and movies
when allow our children to watch them.