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I have a huge issue with that trope. Most kids shows use the idea of inherently good and bad characters. We are teaching them that people are wrong because they
by underwater 9y ago
I have a huge issue with that trope. Most kids shows use the idea of inherently good and bad characters. We are teaching them that people are wrong because they are bad people.
We drill this into people's heads from a young age and then we wonder why adults are incapable of expressing a difference of opinion in a rational way.
- eat_veggies 9y agoFor this reason I've been loving Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, the animated continuation of Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood. There are no villains or bad people, just friends making honest mistakes and learning how to deal with them. When you feel so mad you want to roar, take a deep breath and count to four
- mathgeek 9y agoOne thing that bothers me about DTN is that Mr. Rogers was a believer in using real people and real-life representations of them (puppets) as a way to curb the contemporary use of cartoons to entertain children. I just can't decide whether or not DTN is something he would have approved of.
- watwut 9y agoI agree with you about that trope. Moreover, we are also teaching them that good are always smarter/more skilled or win another way. Basically, when you are looking at the winner, winner must have been also morally right. And when winner does something bad to win competition or whatever, then it was still good. However, I quite sure that all of these still can be conveyed with humans as much as with animals and anthropomorphous trains/cars etc. The only reason city kid knows that rabbit is fast is because the kid seen it running in cartoon anyway. It is not like kids would had hands on experience with rabbits and turtles.