Comments on: What China can learn from Big Bird and Barkley http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/02/17/why-china-needs-sesame-street/ The no-nonsense China expat and traveller community. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:47:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Duofu http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/02/17/why-china-needs-sesame-street/#comment-2162 Duofu Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:04:12 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/02/17/why-china-needs-sesame-street/#comment-2162 I loved Sesame street as well, sometimes when I am back at home, I turn on the TV to see some old Bert and Ernie and they are still funny (even after all these years). As to the the whole teaching in China thing, it left me with the same sour feeling, nobody seems to care about the quality as long as there is English, some white guy and games. It's sad and most of it is just a hoax. I loved Sesame street as well, sometimes when I am back at home, I turn on the TV to see some old Bert and Ernie and they are still funny (even after all these years).
As to the the whole teaching in China thing, it left me with the same sour feeling, nobody seems to care about the quality as long as there is English, some white guy and games. It’s sad and most of it is just a hoax.

]]> By: Steven http://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/2007/02/17/why-china-needs-sesame-street/#comment-524 Steven Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:46:00 +0000 http://www.lostlaowai.com/commentary/blog/2007/02/17/why-china-needs-sesame-street/#comment-524 i have happy memories of Sesame street from when i was a kid. being British, it also had a strange kind of exoticism: it featured things that were not shown on kids TV in the UK in the '80's, and which I didn't see in my part of the country, such as - ummmm - non-white people! which raises a serious point about how sesame street helped shape socities, and represented the previously under-represented. although some might say it stereotyped them. who knows. what ever happened to The Count!? i have happy memories of Sesame street from when i was a kid. being British, it also had a strange kind of exoticism: it featured things that were not shown on kids TV in the UK in the ’80’s, and which I didn’t see in my part of the country, such as - ummmm - non-white people!

which raises a serious point about how sesame street helped shape socities, and represented the previously under-represented. although some might say it stereotyped them.

who knows. what ever happened to The Count!?

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