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TV is different in other countries


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I simply do not “get” our country’s entertainment system and its “values”.

Any given night we can watch horrific brutality and violence. Even to the point of multiple gruesome explicit murders. But let anything of a sexual nature be displayed and OMG the FCC is handing out million dollar fines.

So what are we teaching our children? That violence is OK but anything and everything related to sex is strictly taboo? Maybe it’s just me but I’ve always felt that sexuality was a normal and natural part of humanity and violence against my fellow man was the taboo.

My son was raised in an environment where very obvious love and physical attraction between his mother and I was the “norm” and violence of any kind was expressly shunned. I think he turned out OK.

Is the Argentine video "provocative"? HMMM... Not to me but I can see were many would be offended. I really think the US entertainment industry needs to rethink what is of value and what is not.

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First, I hope my 8 year old grandaughter don't see this tripe(not here but on network tv).Second, what these fools are doing don't look like "love".That said, I could care less but prefer regular tv not have to be 'explained" to my family.I don't really see the problem with being decent in public, I prefer not to explain what some of those ridiculous commercials are about, viagra etc.....

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Wow! Yeah, I guess that's some kind of dancing.

My thought was for the poor girls in the strip clubs. If that's what you see on TV, what the heck do the performers have to do in the "gentlemen's clubs"?

I have know idea ? [:$] From what I hear [A] not any more than that and with a little more clothes than in that show..

But there definitely not poor $

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Even neighbouring countries sometimes have different values / priorities ... for example we’ve got strict gun regulation but lap dances are legal... while just south of the border you’ve got your guns but lap dances are illegal. Who am i to argue what turns you on... [:P]

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TV was dreadully boring in Singapore when I lived there. "Sledge Hammer" and "Miami Vice" was about as good as it got, and it was interrupted 6 times a day for the Islmaic "call to prayer." Not that I have anything against that, and, AAMOF, it was a good demonstration of cultural diversity in that it also interrupted atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, and everybody else.

Weather report was the same almost every day for years: "Partly cloudy with a shower over parts of the island with a low of 22 and a high around 30 degrees."

Dave

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