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According to the article they’re not buying the indeed fantastic French “BD” comic books but manga.
by mtts 5y ago
According to the article they’re not buying the indeed fantastic French “BD” comic books but manga.
- ithkuil 5y agoAre you insinuating that manga is not culture?
- dfxm12 5y agoThey're insinuating manga is not French culture.
- mcguire 5y agoThat's not bad either, unless they're under the weird delusion that the only valid culture in France is French culture. (I personally find manga to be excessively drawn-out, even more than American comics, seemingly in order to sell more books. But that's me.)
- bsder 5y agoThis is as old as the medium. Dickens was paid by the word. This is why "Tale of Two Cities" is a wonderful book with a gigantic pile of garbage in the middle. (To be fair: The middle of "Tale of Two Cities" has some of my favorite scenes, but, boy, howdy, could it use an editor to chop out about 2/3 of it)
- rootsudo 5y agoManga is very good nowadays, I don't blame the kids. Go with what's in. It's culture.
- _rpd 5y agoI think the hope was that the money would be used to support local cultural content/events since people in those enterprises have been hard hit by the COVID crisis.
- dfxm12 5y agoWhere are they buying the books? (sorry if the article mentions this, it's paywalled) If it's independent stores, then I think that qualifies as a local enterprise hit hard by COVID, and fits in the spirit of the scheme, maybe even national bookstores can be considered thusly, too. If they can give the money to Amazon, though, then maybe there's an issue.
- codyswann 5y agoMore specifically, the article points out the money was supposed to be used to expose the kids to culture that they're not already exposed to. Instead, they're using it to buy more of the culture (magna) that they're already buying anyway.