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[tgies]

nickelodeon produces Mandarin Chinese-themed "Dora the Explorer" knockoff: great! excellent

nickelodeon picks random adopted Chinese-American kid with no foreknowledge of Mandarin to voice the protagonist: ffffffffffffff

entire rest of the cast is about as white as antarctica: fffffffffffffffffffffffff

introducing accessible language education in the united states! "Well, That Part's Not Important"™

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[tgies.livejournal.com]

HAHA this reminds me of me at age 5: "mom I don't think he's really talking in Swedish at all"

[tgies.livejournal.com]

who CARES about the CULTURE teaching about chinese culture would be UNAMERICAN

i'm just preemptively sad about how badly they're going to slaughter the language

smart money's on "they decide the tonality is minimally important and half the characters just belt it out like English"

i'd almost prefer they didn't try to get too Cultural about it, because it's always horribly wanky when they try to do that. dora the explorer is so fucking retarded when they try to be all MEXICO and wind up actually being CANCUN