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On October 26, some netizens broke the news on social media that one of his publisher friends had received a complaint because the "Aesop's Fables" published by the company contained a story of "a crab strangling his own bad snake friend".
Some parents believe that the story will have a negative impact on their children's psychology and should delete and recall all published books.
After receiving the complaint, the publisher said that it would make changes to the story in subsequent publications, but it could not recall the published books.
However, only a few days later, the publishing house received a complaint from the parent again, because in the past few days, parents have read through the entire "Aesop's Fables" and believed that it is full of dark fairy tales, which will bring irreparable negative impacts to the healthy growth of children, and should be completely removed from the shelves of "Aesop's Fables".
As we all know, Aesop's Fables is an ancient Greek fable, mostly related to animals, each story contains philosophy, or reveals and criticizes social contradictions, or expresses the understanding of life.
For a long time after publication, it influenced the development of Western literature and was known as the ancestor of Western fables.
In China, the book has been designated by many colleges and universities as a must-read book for primary and secondary school students, and many of the texts in the textbooks of the lower grades of primary school are adapted from the stories in Aesop's Fables.
It is precisely because the book has such a high degree of social recognition, so in the eyes of many netizens, this is another parent's idle random report.
Coincidentally, just some time ago, the special drama "Diga Ultraman", which accompanied a generation of growth, was suddenly removed from the whole network, although the platforms did not indicate the specific reasons for the removal, but many netizens believed that the removal may be related to the April investigation report.
The report lists the "violent" and "easy to imitate" elements involved in many animations, including "Diga", and believes that the relevant departments should review and manage these works.
Whether it is the so-called undesirable factors pointed out in this report or the dark plot in "Aesop's Fables", most netizens cannot understand and agree with this, after all, these parents always use the name of "safeguarding the growth of minors" to apply a one-size-fits-all approach to all things that seem to harm minors, which not only affects the minors themselves, but also damages the interests of adults to a certain extent.
But in fact, everything is positive and negative, some books, film and television works, electronic products will hurt the user, but also with the social environment, family environment, personal psychology and other factors have a close relationship, should not be partial generalization.
Here we may wish to start from the perspective of parents and see what is the darkness and violence in their eyes.
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The picture above is the story of "Snake and Crab", which is less than 160 words in total, but has a complete story structure, showing the personality of the two animals, the development of the story and the ending in layman's terms.
So how much psychological shadow does this story leave on children?
The point of Snake and Crab is nothing more than two places: 1. The snake is sinister and despicable; 2. The crab strangles the snake while it is asleep.
These two points are indispensable to the whole story, the character characteristics of the snake are the cause of the development of the story, without this, there will be no plot of the crab behind;
However, this is only a superficial plot, the biggest charm of literary works is that the text contains the author's views on someone or something, and the large blank space of the fable provides readers with endless imagination space, and the readers will have more their own thinking ability and dig out the truth contained in them from different angles.
Perhaps in the eyes of the child, this is just a story of "promoting good and punishing evil", because the snake is sinister and despicable, and the upright crab has repeatedly dissuaded it to no avail, and the crab kills it in time before the snake will make more threats. However, in the eyes of parents, the transformation of the relationship between snakes and crabs from "friends" to "murderers and dead" may leave psychological shadows for children.
And who can be sure that the understanding of these two parties is really Aesop's intention?
Perhaps the story king who lived in the 6th century wanted to use "Snake and Crab" to satirize the cruelty of crabs? Just because the good guys have not changed their teachings, they picked up the big pliers and killed them, and how is this different from the current parents' reports?
Don't forget, this is a "fable story"!
Parents do take on the responsibility of protecting their children from wrong thoughts, but that doesn't mean they should grow up in their own "sterile room."
If you blindly use the parents' unilateral standards to judge children's books, then perhaps the ironic "Little Girl Who Sold Matches" cannot be watched, the "Ugly Duckling" that reveals the ugliness of others cannot be watched, the "Pinocchio" that instigates children to lie cannot be watched, and perhaps all the fairy tales in the world cannot be watched.
Because of these stories, in fact, the author's own words of dissatisfaction with society, they just use the beautiful thing of fairy tales to slightly package them to open a window for children to see the world.
Instead of using the eyes of adults to screen the criticism of these stories, it is better to lean down and read with children and teach them to judge right and wrong, after all, the meaning of reading and learning is to let readers learn to think independently.
Since different readers will learn different truths from it, if the child only recognizes fighting and killing, then parents should also reflect on whether they have fulfilled their responsibility to guide.
Hours do not judge, how to face the cruelty of reality when you grow up?
Perhaps as this netizen said: scrap iron is made in this way.
In the investigation report in April, some media found the three problem points listed in it, "violent crime", "dangerous imitation", and "dark blackening", and analyzed the "dangerous" components.
Not to mention that the monster fight in "Diga" is the "violent" element that parents are most afraid of, even in "Changeable Martin", a group of classmates around the protagonist, said "I am the boss here", can also be identified as "school violence".
Admittedly, this part of the plot does fall under the category of "school bullying", but from another point of view, does not this also reveal the violent factors that exist in the campus?
If even if animation is banned, will the parents of the actual school violence be in charge? Nowadays, animation uses a popular, fictional way to induce children to think about relevant problems and propose solutions.
In the list of "dangerous imitations", even classic children's animations such as "Peppa Pig" are among them, because the plot of Peppa Pig's father accidentally falling off the plane is easy to be imitated by children.
But a well-known common sense is that in the process of flying, the hatch of the aircraft is impossible to be opened, even if it is opened, it also requires the flight attendants to do it through formal techniques, where does a child have the knowledge and strength to open the door of the aircraft, and then imitate the animation character to jump down?
If your family has a private jet, that's when I didn't say that.
Of course, the most outrageous is still in Barbie Dream House Adventure, where a character inadvertently touches a trap, and the stairs under his feet become slides, sliding into the wave pool as a buffer. This part is also included in the "danger imitation category".
I wondered, isn't this a ride in a children's playground? Could it be that these whistleblowers have such facilities in their homes that induce children to imitate? Then please ask this parent to check whether the safety measures have been done enough.
Thanks to this list, let me see the future of Guoman.
For example, the upcoming restored version of "Heavenly Book" may be reported by parents. After all, in front of this animation, they are the people who have the most right to speak.
First of all, the dramatic makeup of the three monsters can scare the children of that year, that is, the parents of the present; in addition, Yuan Gong's theft of the Book of Heaven is instigating the child to steal, and the egg is defenseless to take the cake sent by passers-by is telling the child: The things given by strangers can also be eaten...
No one will care how arduous the restoration process of this movie is, how exquisite the art is, how memorable the ironic chaos is, and no one will know that this is an animation that can represent the glory of the national comic and export to the outside.
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Aesop's Fables does have violence, but at the same time it has deep philosophies; diga does have darkness, but it also has humanistic care; and there are more animations, each with "problem points", but also excellent.
However, parents are always prejudiced, grasping certain aspects of animation and criticizing it completely.
But after that, has your child grown up to be what you want to be?