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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Does any of your students actually watch TV in China?
I had a local TV station come to my school to promote our international program for future students to inquire and maybe sign up. The strangest thing occurred when I ask the grade 1 and grade 2 high school students what channel the local TV station is and not one student new it was channel 8. Then I discover that nobody in both classes watch any TV at all. I asked the local station photographer if local TV stations will be out of business in 20 years. He thought it was a silly question until I pointed out that his future viewers in my classroom never watch his channel. He gave a persuasive speech for them to watch for about 10 minutes, but I don't think it had any chance of changing their minds. I can't honestly say I would not be a TV lover but being poor and working all the time as a youth left television way down my list of interest and in fact I have never purchased a TV in my life, the wives always did this chore, but I want be upset if the internet actually kills television for good.
How do you brainwash society with TV characters, being gay is cool great and normal, men are stupid and women are superior, how do you change societal norms to what you want the average joe to believe. The arrogant elite views that people know is good for us whether we like them or not, will be hard to brainwash the citizens when nobody watches TV anymore. Propaganda, environmentalism, being polite, respect , all the public service announcements and of course all the politics that makes us so smart. OMG, the world will fall apart. LOL
I asked my students the same question regarding their viewing habits.
in a Uni, most seem to view online.
for the boys mostly NBA or American comedies
The girls tend to favour Korean dramas, American comedies and BBC drama.
the only terrestrial TV they talk about is the Spring Festival Gala which the entire country seems to watch
The propaganda seems to have been input throughout their formative years in school.
TV is for old people now, most students(for instance my classmates) don't watch TV, I only watch TV at sport bars, oh wait, I do watch some TV with my parents when I visit them.