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>Date:         Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:47:25 -0500
>From: "Ovidiu Hurduzeu, Ph.D" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #8651 "Clean" movies
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>cc: Ovidiu Hurduzeu <[log in to unmask]>

I think I do not share Professor Ledgerwood's suggestion to "clean up" strong
language in 
foreign language movies. If we consider a certain movie  to be  inappropriate
for our high 
schools students to watch, we do not show it at all  instead of "mutilating" it.
For instance, 
is such  a great movie like  "La Haine" inappropriate to show to our juniors or
seniors in the 
French class because of its strong language? ( La Haine is a French movie about
the life in a 
Paris ghetto, banlieu). I remind Professor Ledgerwood that "La Haine" 'strong
language is 
the REAL language used in the banlieu. I would rather change the sanitized,
tourist like view 
that our world language textbooks feed to our kids. Don't you think that 
American kids are 
sheltered too much  from the harsh realities of the outside world? 



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