tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post3362885563242010744..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Children not enculturated to know their nursery rhymes anymoreagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-75980718927164701012016-05-26T10:30:02.614-04:002016-05-26T10:30:02.614-04:00This post seems connected with the popularity of s...This post seems connected with the popularity of sanitized rave and electronic music coming from Nordic countries. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-16609740833408375292013-08-22T10:50:33.651-04:002013-08-22T10:50:33.651-04:00My mom sang songs from the same nursery book. I r...My mom sang songs from the same nursery book. I remember staring at those drawings for hours, totally fascinated.<br /><br />My younger sister had a kid last year. She lives in Asia, but I'm flying over soon to visit her, my new newphew and my brother-in-law. When I asked if she remembered The Real Mother Goose and if she'd like me to bring a book from the States, she enthusiastically replied yes. She then told my mother about how I was going to obtain the book, and my mom broke down in tears on how my sister and I loved that book when we were little, and how she's so happy that I still remember it. <br /><br />Doing my little part in trying to maintain our culture. I'll definitely be singing these songs to my kids when I have them.DdRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-61355075208013859682013-08-21T22:55:22.207-04:002013-08-21T22:55:22.207-04:00On the demographic point: I do agree it's lar...On the demographic point: I do agree it's largely about the zeitgeist rather than about diversity per se. But kids in the cocooning 50s learned the old nursery rhymes just fine. What seems to have changed in about 1990 or so was the idea that we honkies (eliding all distinctions among us, like the Battle of the Boyne never happened) are supposed to go around cringing endlessly about how awful our ancestors were, and definitely not carrying on their culture, seems to have started picking up steam. <br /><br />For example, in the 80s, even in California, you could say laudatory things about Robert E. Lee (brave, honorable, fine soldier, etc.) without people immediately losing it and inferring that you were advocating the reinstitution of slavery. Much dicier proposition by the mid-90s, when I was in college. Which, not coincidentally, was right about the time we also had to start deferring to the sensibilities of queers. Examples could be multiplied. A bunch of fringe people throwing hissy fits, and the normal people getting reeducated to walk around on pins and needles around them. <br /><br />Maybe it'll bounce back when we as a culture re-grow a pair. My daughter loves freeze tag and hopscotch, although she's not much for rope-skipping. (Even back in the 80s, that seemed like more of a black thing than a white thing, but then, I'm a guy, so maybe I just didn't pay close enough attention to what the girls were doing.) <br /><br />-- RLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-51600837905107406762013-08-21T22:31:37.156-04:002013-08-21T22:31:37.156-04:00Heh, I had the exact same book when I was a kid (b...Heh, I had the exact same book when I was a kid (born '76), and my mother dug it up and sent it to me when my first child was born ('07). My experience, though, was that going to elementary school in the early 80s, we spent a lot more time on music from the 60s than on anything going back centuries ("Feeling Groovy" every morning in kindergarten). Maybe that was supposed to be "folk," or maybe that was just a function of California being a weird place. <br /><br />Something weird about today, my daughter learned different (and noticeably more PC / less disturbing) lyrics when she was in preschool. The one that sticks out in my mind is the one about the bubonic plague, "Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of posies, a tissue, a tissue, we all fall down." No need to have 4-year-olds thinking about the Black Death when they could be thinking about seasonal allergies instead. <br /><br />-- RLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-17469594569739440282013-08-21T19:37:19.859-04:002013-08-21T19:37:19.859-04:00"Asianization of Indo-European culture. You d..."Asianization of Indo-European culture. You don't see them teaching their children folk songs, dances, and games"<br />Do asians not have that?TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-8332579715655492952013-08-20T17:51:05.624-04:002013-08-20T17:51:05.624-04:00I'm trying to lose some weight.. do you have a...I'm trying to lose some weight.. do you have any good diets to follow? I remember reading about Paleo diets in your archives.<br /><br />-CurtisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com