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Originally Posted by exxcéntrica
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Originally Posted by exxcéntrica
Can anybody confirm this? I have no idea, but this does not happen in Spain.
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In the U.S. you cannot avoid vulgar and sexually-oriented language. Our TV and the music preferred by the kids is full of it. This country is as bad as any for exposing our kids to foul language every day. Rap music is their most popular form of music and words like b*tch, pimp, hoe (whore), and a WHOLE lot worse are in these songs and in the vocabulary of any kid in the seventh grade. They hear this stuff everywhere and
yes, they are friendly words to our adolescents. They think nothing of calling each other ***** or "hoe". And
I think it would astound anybody to hear the other words in their vocabularies.
As for warnings, it is true that if you look very closely and quickly they are there. They might give you a 5 second warning at the start of a movie but if you miss it while you're in the kitchen then that is it.
Many movies in the U.S contain the most offensive and vulgar language you could imagine and any unsupervised child with a TV can see these movies at will day or night.
As for violence, well, killing and maiming are nothing to our kids. They see it every day in the movies and in their video games.
Then
there are commercials where there are NO warnings. You can be in the middle of watching the news and a commercial for V***gra will come on and it warns you that you should "see a doctor if you have
an erection lasting more than four hours"! Or a "
male enhancement" commercial talking about enlarging that "certain part of the male body" or a commercial advertising KY jelly and its new
"tingling" ingredient for women to use as a lubricant to enhance their "romantic moments". If you watch TV you cannot avoid these sexually-oriented commercials and any young person knows what they are about. You would be naive if you believe they do not.
Nearly every single day I have to erase un-wanted and un-solicited spam emails which advertise p*rn sites.
Any computer-literate child can find a p*rn site on his computer in a matter of minutes.
I don't watch that much TV but it has been my
personal experience that TV shows and commercials in Mexico and Central America are much less likely to have offensive language and s*x scenes than here in the U.S. In the movies I have seen, most of which are U.S. made and have Spanish sub-titles, they nearly always substitute offensive words with "maldición". Perhaps natives of these countries have a different opinion.