But there was a ridiculous article recently about how "politically correct" nursery rhymes are doing the rounds..."3 Visually Challenged Mice", "Ba Ba Green Sheep" (all nauseous people should be protesting anyday against this one) and what not.
I mean, do we really have to do this and introduce kids to the whole idea of racism? It's like telling children to steer clear of drugs, booze and sex when they are 5 years old, thus getting them all the more interested in facts that can easily wait for atleast 10 more years (I'm old fashioned..).
The Brits especially are getting increasingly conscious of what they say lest they find themselves targetted by some hardline groups in the increasingly multi-cultural society that they are living in. I can imagine the torture the school teachers must be going through talking about:
- Colourful sheep to respect the sensibilities of the non-white, African-origin people
- An intact London Bridge so as to not cause panic attacks
- How "Polly Put the Kettle on" under adult supervision
- How Little Bo-Peep should have been in school rather than rearing the sheep
- How "Little Boy Blue" stereotypes "men" with "blue" in this metrosexual world
- How Mary's Little Lamb might have led to animal rights issues
- And how Georgie-Porgie should have been sent for juvenile detention for eve teasing
It sounds ridiculous and crazy! Can't babies sing along a few sweet songs without tearing them apart with dumb analysis!
And how come all the wrong rhymes make it into the rule books, and no one says anything against "Rock a Bye Baby"...one of the most evil rhymes written ever...whoever puts a baby in a cradle on a tree top, and talks about the bough breaking?! A maniac for sure!
3 comments:
Ba Ba Black Sheep is just a NURSERY RHYME... And my fav one.. That the sheep was Black in color is just a coincidence... Nothin racist bout this Rhyme... plzzz
I know that, YOU know thta...tell that to the obsessively "politically correct" people of the world :)
Hehe. Interesting post - well written. But I guess the young toddlers of today can take them in. They dun make kids like our times anymore. They'd be learning the calculus of variations at an age when we were busy mugging multiplication tables, and 'd be learning sharpshooting while we were taught to fiddle with lezims. Rhymes.. I hope they still teach them at schools.
Why couldn't they let kids be kids? Sigh!
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