Quote:
Originally Posted by Sweetpea
When I read those comics, I didn't even know racism existed. One of my best friends at elementary school was a Moroccan. Who cared where his parents came from (they came here in the '70's when there was a boom and there was a huge shortage of cheap labor)? Not me.
When I read those Tin Tin comics, I never even put the link from Herge's. Africans to real Africans. It was a comic and in comics nothing is real.
Children don't judge, parents do, and children will copy their parents. Just because parents decide that a book isn't for children, will children think there's something more happening inside that book. Parents should let their children read it and then point to the fact that that is how people thought about those population groups so many years ago and that the reality is completely different. Point them real life people from that ethnic group to show the difference.
|
I totally agree with all you say!
But when I read Tintin, my parents did not warn me on anything because they didn't know.
Though I doubt that anyone could become a racist just reading Tintin...