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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on August 13, 2008, 01:19:39 pm ---It's a country that makes no bones about supressing their citizens by controlling access to ISP's. The two are not always mutually exclusive.

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How is that indicative of the culture?  It is a direct action of the gov't without mandate of the people.  The cultural effect of that is that everyone has a net enabled phone.  News doesn't go through web pages.  It gets spread via personal networking from peer to peer.  The gov't is still trying to control media but in this age of instant contact the culture is circumventing the gov't's actions.  What I'm told by friends who are from there is that the result is often a population that actually knows more than average about world affairs because information is condensed and targeted as it makes its way around by hand.

fjl:

--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on August 13, 2008, 12:53:36 pm ---Also, since you guys are talking about not showing ugly people on Chinese television...
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Right, cause the United States doesn't do that either. Lets not forget there was a time when not only non-ugly but only white people where shown on television.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: efjayel on August 13, 2008, 01:59:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on August 13, 2008, 12:53:36 pm ---Also, since you guys are talking about not showing ugly people on Chinese television...
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Right, cause the United States doesn't do that either. Lets not forget there was a time when not only non-ugly but only white people where shown on television.

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Really?  Because tv sets became available to American consumers in 1946 and by 1956 Nat King Cole was the host of his own program.  I find it hard to believe that in 10 years time they went from refusing to show black people on television to a show hosted by a black man.

ChadTower:

A show that couldn't gain any real sponsorship because no major corporation wanted to be associated with black people.  It was very short lived.  IIRC some people even tried to kidnap him in the middle of a show to get him off the air, he was injured during the attempt, and he refused to perform in many parts of the country after that.

Not a good example if your case is that black people were welcomed on TV here from the start.

Ginsu Victim:
Nat King Cole aside, you wouldn't have a black female host a show until Oprah in 1986. The first black star of a network television show wasn't until Bill Cosby in "I Spy" in '65.

Not exactly progress...

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