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velvetechosAlright, this is to help me out with an upcoming school project, so the more of you willing to answer these questions, as detailed as possible, would be wonderful.
To be fair, Ki'll post her answers in the responses, if you wish to read them. You can also e-mail me your responses, if you wish for them to not be seen, but this is for an upcoming school project, so Ki'd appreciate answers if you can be bothered to give them.
Were you read to/encouraged to read as child:
Were you allowed to watch TV on school days? Was your television intake monitored (as in how long, what you were watching etc):
Did you learn most of your morals through stories, events, parents, school, or television:
Were any of stories you were told passed through word of mouth, or were they all taken from books:
Were your parents always honest, or were tall tales to make the lesson stick alright:
Did you have any family traditions:
Were family history/family pride/family time important:
Did you have cultural influences (ie: ethnic foods/music/dress/etc):
Was your family religious:
How old were you when you first went to the cinema, and what did you see:
Did you spend a lot of time playing video games:
What extra-curricular activities did you partake in:
What do you think of Disney's butchering of classic fairy tales:
To be fair, Ki'll post her answers in the responses, if you wish to read them. You can also e-mail me your responses, if you wish for them to not be seen, but this is for an upcoming school project, so Ki'd appreciate answers if you can be bothered to give them.
Were you read to/encouraged to read as child:
Were you allowed to watch TV on school days? Was your television intake monitored (as in how long, what you were watching etc):
Did you learn most of your morals through stories, events, parents, school, or television:
Were any of stories you were told passed through word of mouth, or were they all taken from books:
Were your parents always honest, or were tall tales to make the lesson stick alright:
Did you have any family traditions:
Were family history/family pride/family time important:
Did you have cultural influences (ie: ethnic foods/music/dress/etc):
Was your family religious:
How old were you when you first went to the cinema, and what did you see:
Did you spend a lot of time playing video games:
What extra-curricular activities did you partake in:
What do you think of Disney's butchering of classic fairy tales:
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:04 pm (UTC)Were you allowed to watch TV on school days? Was your television intake monitored (as in how long, what you were watching etc): Ki was, but, content was closely monitored, and only an hour or two allowed. Self preferred to spend time reading, drawing, or climbing trees, and looking for catepillars anyway.
Did you learn most of your morals through stories, events, parents, school, or television: Mostly through stories, and from parents. School also, but, my father taught me at a young age that teachers make mistakes as well, and that self shouldn't take strangers teachings above his.
Oddly enough, Ki remembers a song her second grade teacher would sing at the end of class each day "Everyone makes mistakes oh yes they do/You sister and your brother and your dad and teacher too/Everyone makes mistakes oh yes they do/Everyone makes mistakes and so can you" Kind of odd.
Were any of stories you were told passed through word of mouth, or were they all taken from books: Family anecdotes, my father's childhood stories, things like that, by mouth of course. A few odd stories my grandmother had commited to memory, mostly books though. Some folk tales from Hawaii were word of mouth
Were your parents always honest, or were tall tales to make the lesson stick alright: Except for the Easter bunny and Santa Claus, my parents were basically honest. Ki thinks it's a shame when parents deny their children the wonders and magic of childhood, in favour for this modern day honesty bullshit. Honesty is important, but there's a reason why some of the old methods work. They taught morals, they taught compassion, fear, adventure, etc.
Did you have any family traditions:Quite a few. We're also heirloom addicts. Ki has way too many heirlooms. They're everywhere.
Were family history/family pride/family time important: Yes. Ki has a family anecdote for just about every situation. Pride was also very important, and family always comes first.
Did you have cultural influences (ie: ethnic foods/music/dress/etc): To a degree. Ki's basically half Filipeno and half English. My family is military though, and my grandmother and father lived all over the place. My grandmother spent a great deal of time in China, as a girl, and she picked up on a lot of their cooking, and some decor. That's been passed down to me. Ki does a mean stir fry, and has many oriental touches to her home. My mother would have rice with everything, hehe, breakfast was often scrambled eggs and rice, or sausage and rice. She was also always eating things like kim chee, or shrimp flavoured chips. We'd eat a lot of mussells, sardines, and fish. Culture was rich, but we were more about family traditions that cultural ones.
Was your family religious: Yes, but not fanatically so. We'd go to church, we'd say grace before dinner, we read the bible, but we weren't crazy.
How old were you when you first went to the cinema, and what did you see: Can't be sure of it, but the first memory Ki has is seeing the movie "The Bear" as a young girl, don't think that's it though, because saw that with her sister and uncle, so, must be wrong.
Did you spend a lot of time playing video games: No. Received super nintendo when it came out, for Christmas, and discovered Final Fantasy in 6th grade. Then played a lot, but not too much.
What extra-curricular activities did you partake in: Swim team, girl scouts, rec center
What do you think of Disney's butchering of classic fairy tales: Ki thinks it's terrible. Not because they made "children's versions", but because of the way they went about it. They made the women weak, everyone beautiful, everything happy ever after, and it confuses young girls. It makes them wonder where their prince is, why they aren't perfect, why everything isn't happy ever after. It gives them warped perspective.
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Date: 2004-07-02 08:25 pm (UTC)Were you allowed to watch TV on school days? Was your television intake monitored (as in how long, what you were watching etc): I was allowed to watch tv on school days, but only for about an hour, and IF my homework was finished. (My mom's insistence, again.)
Did you learn most of your morals through stories, events, parents, school, or television: Morals mostly came from my mom. She instilled them in me from day one. She always told me that whether I believed her or not, some day it would make sense.
Were any of stories you were told passed through word of mouth, or were they all taken from books:
Were your parents always honest, or were tall tales to make the lesson stick alright: I know my mom was always honest with me.
Did you have any family traditions: Going out to dinner whenever someone got a new job, celebrating birthdays, 4th of July, Christmas, etc
Were family history/family pride/family time important:
Mom's family I didn't know until after my parents divorced, and my dad's family were dysfunctional, so the entire concept of "family" itself was kind of wacky.
Did you have cultural influences (ie: ethnic foods/music/dress/etc): Ohhh yes. We ate a lot of Chinese, Italian, and Swedish food.
Was your family religious: My mom was/is. She never pushed it on us though.
How old were you when you first went to the cinema, and what did you see: I was two years old; I saw "Snow White" with my mom and brother.
Did you spend a lot of time playing video games: Not a lot of time playing them, but watching my brother play them on his Atari (and later Nintendo).
What extra-curricular activities did you partake in: Drama, yearbook, literary magazine.
What do you think of Disney's butchering of classic fairy tales: I HATE the way they portray people!!!! They ruin the best fairy tales. The way most fairy tales are written (originally) actually help kids get a better sense of the world, I think. Not everyone is beautiful, not every good person wins every time, etc. I wish they would be a bit more realistic with their warped movies. Even "Beauty And The Beast" wasn't very realistic. *sigh*
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Date: 2004-07-02 09:42 pm (UTC)Were you allowed to watch TV on school days? Was your television intake monitored (as in how long, what you were watching etc): Yes it was definitely monitored. I could only watch certain things but I could watch as much as I wanted as long as I didn't have homework to do and wasn't using the TV my mom was watching her show on.
Did you learn most of your morals through stories, events, parents, school, or television: Parents and books. A lot of my more screwed up morals are from my parents (like being ashamed of sexual feelings) but most of my more well-adjusted, stronger morals I developed just from experiencing life and from reading a whole hell of a lot.
Were any of stories you were told passed through word of mouth, or were they all taken from books: Mostly from books, though I'm sure there were some things told to me that I later read. If that happened, I probably forgot about it and remember the book experience more.
Were your parents always honest, or were tall tales to make the lesson stick alright: My mom will still, to this day, lie to my face to try and be a good example to me, even though I'm my own adult person now. My father is one big bag of lies, but not about lessons, just about everything else. He was always honest about his childhood and the bad things he did when he was younger.
Did you have any family traditions: My paternal grandparents always give us a "nostalgia" gift at Christmas. It's usually a bauble from their house that they think we will appreciate. That basically translates into something crappy that they want to get rid of from their house. LoL! But they think it's nice. Other than that...nothing that I can think of.
Were family history/family pride/family time important: My dad is always going on and on about how important family is and then he doesn't act like it. But there's never really been any family history passed down or anything. I know about where my grandmother was born and I know back maybe to my grandparent's parents (with gaps in the memory) but that's about it. I don't really know my maternal grandmother's ethnic heritage at all. We know she is Native American but not what tribe or how many generations back it goes or anything. :-\ I've always wondered.
Did you have cultural influences (ie: ethnic foods/music/dress/etc): Not really. I always thought we were very Italian (my dad's mother is) but then I met other Italians and they blew me away with their language and their food and knowledge of the culture.
Was your family religious: My mother was a non-practicing Catholic but never imposed any beliefs on us. We went to Vacation Bible School during the summer and a Christian church on Easter but nothing special. My dad has always been open about being athiest.
How old were you when you first went to the cinema, and what did you see: EGADS! I can remember seeing the first Batman with my grandmother but I don't know how young I was. And I don't know if that was my first movie.
Did you spend a lot of time playing video games: Yes, love them. First video game system I played was Atari. First game system I got was Nintendo. Megaman 2 and 3 were my life. LOVED THEM!
What extra-curricular activities did you partake in: I was in the Drama Club in 8th grade. I was in C.A.S.T. (Children's Associated Summer Theater) for about 6 years while I was in JHS and HS. I didn't do anything in HS because I hated my experience. Then in college I did a whole hell of a lot. I started a Gay/Straight Alliance and was the president for a year. I helped start a Task Force Against Homophobia which sponsored a Safe Zone Training program. I was an RA starting in my sophomore year and later served on RA Council for two years, president my second year. :)
What do you think of Disney's butchering of classic fairy tales: I don't mind. They're entertaining and I can always get the classic version in books, which I love.
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Date: 2004-07-02 10:43 pm (UTC)Were you allowed to watch TV on school days? Was your television intake monitored (as in how long, what you were watching etc): My television watching was not limited nor monitored, with the exception of MTV, in which there were times my mom banned me from watching due to questionable nature, and would allow me to watch my videos on my birthday...then eventually she didn't give a shit, heh.
Did you learn most of your morals through stories, events, parents, school, or television: Originally parents until they both went nuts, many of my own morals seem to come up on their own without influence (Like I did something and it made me feel bad and in turn came to conclusion)
Were any of stories you were told passed through word of mouth, or were they all taken from books: My parents would just buy me books and leave me to them in my room pretty much.
Were your parents always honest, or were tall tales to make the lesson stick alright: My dad told me that farmers pee in the apple trees to get me to wash the apple before I ate it, what do you think?!
Did you have any family traditions: Inadvertently (Trying to do the fake stable happy thanksgiving family, then by the end of the day one of us is trying to kill the other), otherwise no.
Were family history/family pride/family time important: 1) on my dad's side, but probably because he didn't want me to turn out like the rest of his family, 2) see previous answer 3) It was used as a guilt trip tactic. We never really could spend time together as a family without resentment towards one another (as kids, the older members resenting each other and us not knowing what's up). We're always fighting about something.
Did you have cultural influences (ie: ethnic foods/music/dress/etc): Not until I was old enough to even understand that I was Hispanic...and old enough to care. Dad tries to denounce my ethnicity, so that usually just provokes my mom and I to go into an indepth conversation for the sole purpose of pissing him off.
Was your family religious: Dad, selfishly (He said he followed the Salvation Army, yes it's a religion, because they were the only religion that gave him things), and Mom was a non-practicing catholic. My brother and I spent one month in catholic school.
How old were you when you first went to the cinema, and what did you see: either Arachnophobia or Back to the Future III, in either case, both movies came out after my seventh birthday. This is the earliest I could recall.
Did you spend a lot of time playing video games: No because we only had a single Nintendo and usually my brothers beat me to it.
What extra-curricular activities did you partake in: Band, choir
What do you think of Disney's butchering of classic fairy tales: Some kids might take it as an opening type thing and actively seek out the original versions of the classic fairy tales (I did.)
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Date: 2004-07-03 12:07 am (UTC)Were you allowed to watch TV on school days? Was your television intake monitored (as in how long, what you were watching etc): I was allowed to watch TV any time from morning to school, after dinner to bedtime. Definitely a good deal, and fair to me! We never had any TV issues in my family. I think the Playboy channel was pretty much off limits...perhaps any show or movie with extensive nudity, language, drug use, etc.
Did you learn most of your morals through stories, events, parents, school, or television: Parents and events (events to me meaning own experiences).
Were any of stories you were told passed through word of mouth, or were they all taken from books: What kind of stories?
Were your parents always honest, or were tall tales to make the lesson stick alright: There were definitely some tall tales. But, the lessons never stuck alright.
Did you have any family traditions: Oh yeah, most so on my father's side. We practice some Buddhism and Chinese beliefs.
Were family history/family pride/family time important: Definitely. What I previously said has to do with all of that.
Did you have cultural influences (ie: ethnic foods/music/dress/etc): Oh yeah. I've said in the recent past that I would love for my wedding (if I were to wed), to be filled with multi-cultural traditions - Mexican and Chinese. My personal traditions, too. :)
Was your family religious: On my father's side, not so much. If they are, they don't preach or share with others. On my mother's side, half or most are born again Christians.
How old were you when you first went to the cinema, and what did you see: I honestly don't remember. But I grew up watching Creature Feature with my mother and alike shows. My favorite character of all time when I was younger is The Hulk.
Did you spend a lot of time playing video games: No, that was my brother. I spent time playing Barbies and dress up.
What extra-curricular activities did you partake in: I went to ballet and tap lessons when I was wee, then I started modeling and that took up a lot of time. I did that for 8 years. Then I had some karate classes, took some guitar and violin, and I was in track, also. I started dancing again in jr. high and that stuck with me. Dance was my main passion.
What do you think of Disney's butchering of classic fairy tales: I really don't have an opinion on this one.
Ah, quiz. Since it's for a good cause.
Date: 2004-07-03 01:33 am (UTC)Were you allowed to watch TV on school days? Was your television intake monitored (as in how long, what you were watching etc): I was allowed, but most TV bored me to insensibility so I didn't bother.
Did you learn most of your morals through stories, events, parents, school, or television: I learned most of my morals through spankings and even once with a rolling pin (thanks Nan).
Were any of stories you were told passed through word of mouth, or were they all taken from books: Books, definitely. Not a whole lot of storytellers in my family, though that surprises me more now than it ever did before.
Were your parents always honest, or were tall tales to make the lesson stick alright: Honesty was one of the few morals that my parents took an active stand in enforcing.
Did you have any family traditions: Not really.
Were family history/family pride/family time important: Family time, yes, though it largely consisted of watching TV as no one wanted to play Scrabble with me (I usualy won).
Did you have cultural influences (ie: ethnic foods/music/dress/etc): Er... sort of an uncomfortable question. I wouldn't have said so then, but nowadays I look for that sort of thing.
Was your family religious: Not at all, though me da is a Druid. Does that count?
How old were you when you first went to the cinema, and what did you see: Pretty sure it was Star Wars, and I would have been... uh, when did it come out again? '78? I forget. I would have been as old as whatever number came after the 7.
Did you spend a lot of time playing video games: Gosh no. We was too po' to be able to afford a 'console'. Though we did eventually get an Intellivision.
What extra-curricular activities did you partake in: None! Oh, what a bane to my parents that was!
What do you think of Disney's butchering of classic fairy tales: I think 'butchering' might be a little harsh. Richard Burton heavily expurgated the 'Arabian Nights', but if it hadn't been for him, we probably wouldn't know anything about it at all. So, for the time Disney began doing 'family-friendly' fairy tales, I think it was all right. Nowadays, though, I think people expect more than the pat 'happily-ever-after' endings. Yes, they were frightfully misogynistic, but the people who made them were children of the 50's and I don't think the films should be faulted for that; judging them from our modern, enlightened viewpoint might be a little unfair. Just my 2ยข.
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Date: 2004-07-04 02:59 am (UTC)Were you allowed to watch TV on school days? Was your television intake monitored (as in how long, what you were watching etc): Except for reports or high school (by then my parents didn't care anyway) I usually always had my homework done. My parents never really monitored what I watched. It was the 80s, so there was really nothing to get excited about anyway.
Did you learn most of your morals through stories, events, parents, school, or television: Television. 80s cartoons were all about morals. These days my parents continue to amaze me though.
Were any of stories you were told passed through word of mouth, or were they all taken from books: Books. My family is pretty plan.
Were your parents always honest, or were tall tales to make the lesson stick alright: They weren't really honest, they just never really told me the truth either. I would say things were mostly hidden. Santa does exist, btw.
Did you have any family traditions: We used to have one were every Christmas my mom would get a broom. Now I get her a candle, because that's all I can usually afford.
Were family history/family pride/family time important: Nope. If you saw my relatives you'd understand that we're actually the normal of the lot. Everyone else is either way out of shape (I'm being kind here) or on some medication.
Did you have cultural influences (ie: ethnic foods/music/dress/etc): Not until real life. And it's still pretty shallow.
Was your family religious: Nope. They never forced us into religion either. I think I went to church once and never went back because it was too boring. I remember wondering why people were being dunked in a tub though.
How old were you when you first went to the cinema, and what did you see: The earliest I can remember is seeing The Fox and the Hound when it first came out, so whatever year that was.
Did you spend a lot of time playing video games: I was so good I had people from the air force base calling me for tips. Ok, it happened once, but I was still the go-to guy for games and hints. I also have two awards from GamePro for the top scores of their world championship competitions. Sadly I never made it to the nationals. I never did use my free year of video game rentals at Blockbuster either. :(
What extra-curricular activities did you partake in: Some sports, Boy Scouts, but I was forced into all of that. Dad wanted a sports son I imagine.
What do you think of Disney's butchering of classic fairy tales:They're free to do what they want. Fairy tales have been butchered before Disney was around anyway. The real ones are pretty depressing. Pinnochio crushes Jimney Cricket with his foot I hear.
--Jerry