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ever notice this about cartoon characters

Thread ID: 18179 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2005-05-10

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JoseyWales [OP]

2005-05-10 13:45 | User Profile

there are very few cartoons on the boob tube today that i let my 2yr old watch. funny thing is that this morning there was a new cartoon that featured no brown-skinned kids and a few of them have heavy british accents. then it struck me - ive never seen a cartoon character with brown skin AND a heavy british accent. I think il call the ADL and complain about the need for more diversity in cartoons.


Jim

2005-05-10 21:20 | User Profile

[QUOTE=JoseyWales]there are very few cartoons on the boob tube today that i let my 2yr old watch. funny thing is that this morning there was a new cartoon that featured no brown-skinned kids and a few of them have heavy british accents. then it struck me - ive never seen a cartoon character with brown skin AND a heavy british accent. I think il call the ADL and complain about the need for more diversity in cartoons.[/QUOTE]

As a native I can see plenty thanks. Brit kids telly is pretty brown.

One childhood favourite remade with a token :( [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/characterpages/postmanpat/[/url]

A typical resident of the Western Isles in scotland :D

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/balamory/josie/index.shtml[/url] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/balamory/spencer/index.shtml[/url]


Happy Hacker

2005-05-11 06:43 | User Profile

[QUOTE=JoseyWales]there are very few cartoons on the boob tube today that i let my 2yr old watch. [/QUOTE]

There are getting to be very few things that I'll let myself watch.