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[blackguy-n-Asia]

Importing stereotypes of Western culture should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

Many teachers seem to have a need for teaching 'other cultures' by showing classy movies that are regarded as entertainment in the West. They should be careful.

An example would be:

"I teach about African culture in America by showing movies like Friday, Boyz in the Hood and Shaft. We then talk about guns, violence and drugs."

or

" I try to bring Italian culture to my students with movies like Casino, Goodfellas or showing The Sopranos."
We then have a discussion on the Mafia, cement galoshes and words like bada-bing"

or

"Watching Braveheart got my class in tune with Scotts"

Please be careful what you teach your students, there may be a budding Adolf Hitler in the class, just waiting to learn about your biased opinion of others.

[Ludwig]

Thank you for a post full of such outstanding insights. It is sure to help the teachers of Hong Kong.

Have you perhaps considered forwarding your proposal onto the EMB and/or some local universities? I am sure they would be interested in your research.

[Mark-O]

Thanks b-n-a!

If I come to Hong Kong and teach primary, I'll think twice about putting in an '18 certificate' dvd in the machine so as not to promote inaccurate racial stereotypes which may in turn lead to global genocide.

[migo]

[blackguy-n-Asia]

Why so ignorant in Hong Kong?

"We don't need to know about racism here!" Not important? If you think that, you shouldn't be a teacher.

I've posted this on other sites. Japan, China, etc I don't get the same level of blunt ignorance.

Maybe Ludwig has five other aliases that all talk trash

Teaching about racism is as important as any other subject.

Enlighten yourself and others.

[Mark-O]

[migo]

[once again]

Mark o wrote

" Excuse me, but who are you to tell the teachers on this forum that they are "ignorant" to racism, or worse still, that they should "enlighten" themselves to said subject?"

Mark-O, it is certainly a fair comment and well made. The intelligent should not need to be reminded of such things...but

Ludwig wrote

"In addition, I am (said to be) fully fluent in Mandarin, though with a mere four tones and the limited conversations that this language�s speakers conduct this is not exactly difficult."

I think comments like that show a kind of insidious cultural prejudice that certainly needs to be corrected. To suggest that all Mandarin speakers have nothing but limited conversations shows that even the most highly qualified and indeed, the most vocal about their qualifications, need to be reminded of what may be harboured prejudices.

[Ludwig]