Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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Of course youth have their ability to determine something, however, just not as develop as adults. Some people said “Children’s brain just like a sponge, they can easily absorb anything around them”. Young boys think guns are cool so they ask their parents to buy him toy guns. A lot of young girls want to become one of the princesses in the Disney stories so they dress up like princesses on Halloween. These kinds’ thoughts come from TV and all kinds of Media. As we watch more and more television shows, various stereotypes grow in our mind without noticing. Therefore we should keep the youth away from getting too much media into their mind. Also, media can easily distort the truth. I watched the new version of Mulan on the weekend. This is filmed by a Chinese director and recorded the real history of a female soldier. It is totally different compares to the Disney Mulan. The scenes were bloody and violent. It was nothing like the Disney version where Mulan happily married a general and live happily ever after. In real life, the general was ordered to marry a princess from another country by the emperor.
Kids should still have the rights to access media. We shouldn’t abandon television just because lots of unrealistic scenes and stereotypes are shown in the media; instead, we should watch it with them and make sure kids understand that media doesn’t always present the true side of the story.

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