May 2, 2018 06:43 PM
http://www.mrjam.org/2016/06/differences...rners.html
EXCERPT: . . . At a writers’ festival in Singapore recently, the authors’ panel and audience were given five minutes to answer a question: What topics should NEVER be covered in children’s books? The Westerners in the room gave identical answers: Nothing should be banned! All censorship is evil! FREEEEEEDDDOMMM!!! The Easterners in the room wrote long lists of unmentionables including cannibalism, violence, politics, religion, sex, kissing, underpants, democracy, feelings, and so on. I wanted a second sheet of paper to list individuals and inappropriate vegetables.
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Not that Westerners aren’t smart: they are far ahead of Easterners in cultural mores. A hot NEW difference concerns gender. Asians think folk should use the toilets that match their biological gender, whereas my Western friends think that’s an outrageous demand.
For example, four-year-olds at a school in the British city of Brighton are told that they are not boys or girls but can CHOOSE their gender. This strikes me as risky, as small children change their minds all the time.
9:00:05 “Do you need to use the toilet, son?” “No, Dad.”
9:00: 25 [dancing as we get on the bus] “DAD! I need to wee! NOW! And I’m a girl!”
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EXCERPT: . . . At a writers’ festival in Singapore recently, the authors’ panel and audience were given five minutes to answer a question: What topics should NEVER be covered in children’s books? The Westerners in the room gave identical answers: Nothing should be banned! All censorship is evil! FREEEEEEDDDOMMM!!! The Easterners in the room wrote long lists of unmentionables including cannibalism, violence, politics, religion, sex, kissing, underpants, democracy, feelings, and so on. I wanted a second sheet of paper to list individuals and inappropriate vegetables.
[...]
Not that Westerners aren’t smart: they are far ahead of Easterners in cultural mores. A hot NEW difference concerns gender. Asians think folk should use the toilets that match their biological gender, whereas my Western friends think that’s an outrageous demand.
For example, four-year-olds at a school in the British city of Brighton are told that they are not boys or girls but can CHOOSE their gender. This strikes me as risky, as small children change their minds all the time.
9:00:05 “Do you need to use the toilet, son?” “No, Dad.”
9:00: 25 [dancing as we get on the bus] “DAD! I need to wee! NOW! And I’m a girl!”
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