Shocking Illustration in a Chinese Children's Textbook
So I was doing some online English tutoring and then I came upon this page from a Chinese phonics textbook meant for young children learning English. The top has a sausage, and has pronunciation practice for the words deed, need and feed. But what is going on with the mouse and the lion?!? "A friend in need is a friend indeed."
So a few details to examine... the lion and the mouse both have pained expressions and are both crying. The mouse is clearly still alive and waving its hands, but seems to be on the plate willingly. There are six wavy lines coming from the lion's stomach indicating he's hungry. He's pouring salt on the mouse and has a fork in his hand. But the worst part is the "Rhyming Fun" section which indicates that they're friends. The lion is hungry so his friend offered himself as a meal. Both characters look rather chubby, so I don't know why it's come to this. I'm just wondering who had the idea for this illustration and how this got published? How about the mouse feeds a sausage to the hungry lion? Wouldn't that work?
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Ooops! And this is in a book :(
Maybe in China they find it funny XD
Or maybe they don't find sacrificing oneself so shocking?
That also can be true...
I wish someone from China could see your post and enlighten us on the subject :)
Well I put "cn" as a tag so maybe someone will haha
That's a great idea XD
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That's not salt salt. It is pepper. Rats taste better with pepper. Every lion knows that
lol true. I enjoy my rats with a bit of ranch dressing (I'm American).
I am an American too and proudly so. I assume that Chinese eat a lot of stuff that we may find repugnant. I think culturally it is perhaps not prohibitive to have something like this in a text book.
Well my student didn't have any problem with it so that's what matters I guess.
I think the image may be in reference to Aesop's fable, The Lion & The Mouse. The words kind of tie in with the story. That's all that comes to mind, anyway.
Thanks for sharing.
Mo
Yeah they probably should have done a more literal interpretation if that's what they were going for haha
lol perhaps
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Wow. That's crazy. Hopefully they can realize the kids need to be vegan and need to stop teaching this.
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