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Pieinsky
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Topic: Children story(s), an insight into a cult Posted: 30-May-2006 at 08:41 |
We have a book on Japanese children stories at home. These little children stories are ambassadors of the nations they come from. They attempt to shape and mould childrens ideas on code of conduct.
A common denominator I found in that book was the idea that a wealthy person was a happy person.
Anyway I want and most likely in the future will continue for a long while to want to know some of your interpretations of short childrens story you have read be it from your country or not. What do they express about that nation?
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Mila
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Posted: 30-May-2006 at 08:52 |
Children's stories in Bosnia come in one of two forms. The first is
gentle and loving and meant to express the cultural importance of a
particular faith, respect for parents and older relatives, respectable
behavior, male/female interactions, and so on. The other is, basically,
a horror story meant instill some moral through fear. There's still a
lot of 'ownership' of children here. You're not really you're own
person until you reach a certain age, generally 17 years old, so doing
exactly what you're told - whether it's piano lessons, working on the
farm, studying at Egypt's most expensive private school, or babysitting
your 15 brothers and sisters in a mountain shack - if you're asked to
do it, you do it. It's not uncommon at all for Bosnian children, and
even young adults, to kneel before their parents and hold one of their
hands when asking an important question or giving bad news - 'I've met
the woman I want to marry', 'I'm pregnant and we're getting married',
'I want to study in Norway', etc. So I think this is the most common
theme in Bosnia's children's stories - that your parents are infallible
and you must listen to their every word or the old hag will sneak into
your house at night and take you away to the mountains. Or you'll be
sold to the gypsies, whose children get to behave exactly as 'you seem
to want to'.
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Posted: 30-May-2006 at 09:45 |
This thread should belong to the anthropology forum. It is cultural anthropology. :)
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Achilles
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Posted: 31-May-2006 at 13:09 |
ahhhh yes the Gypsies. going and and stealing all of the bad, misbehaved children.
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Der Erste hat den Tod,
Der Zweite hat die Not,
Der Dritte erst hat Brot.
Fur immer frei und ungeteilt
-always free and undivided-
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Posted: 05-Jun-2006 at 22:06 |
I believe for a short childrens story to last throughout time and be acknoledged as a classic ,it must have a meaning or else it will become dull and fade away into the black abyss of literature!!for example ''Jack and Jill'' or ''The hare and the tortoise'' are popular to this day after centuries of exsistence and they have meanings which are not always very evident! i also find it an interesting topic as I believe short stories help teach people the difference between right and wrong! But I am unaware of any childrens stories which are native to Ireland.
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