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[velvetechos]

Alright, 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:

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Were you read to/encouraged to read as child: Yes, and yes. My Grandmother and myself would read together every evening, and self also spent a good deal of time at the library, and reading for leisure, before school was ever even started.

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. icecelt don't think Ki forgot you grabbing those hot pads.

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.