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Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

Source: xkb.com.au
[Social News]     23 Nov 2020
On november 20th australian radio (ABC) broadcast a children's program, and then caused a huge controversy in the chinese community.
Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

program, the two hosts invited actresses playing Wu Zetian to eat cockroaches and other food (online photo)

On november 20th australian radio (ABC) broadcast a children's program, and then caused a huge controversy in the chinese community.

Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

Bad History

The program ," Bad History (Horrible Histories)," was broadcast in 2009 on the BBC's C The British Broadcasting Corporation channel, which targets children aged 6 to 12. By its absurd and unruly style, the program shows the stories of different times and dynasties in ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, Aztec, Inca, Britain and so on.

The second episode of the program's sixth season, Awesome Alfred the Great》, tells the story of Alfred the Great. The controversial footage comes from the 11th to 13th minutes of this episode.

Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

China was suddenly mentioned in the program (online photo)

In the film, the host, after describing Alfred the Great's defeat of the Vikings, suddenly turned around and said he would introduce to you the times that took place at the same time as Wu Zetian, the female emperor of the Tang Dynasty in China. At that time, people gave her some incredible food.

Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

A white woman plays "Wu Zetian" in the program (online photo)

After that, the scene switched to the outside, and there appeared a white woman in a dress similar to the Qing Dynasty. You were right. This was Wu Zetian, and the two hosts next to him said ," Welcome to the Field Food Challenge ". They first brought out a plate of wasp larvae to show nausea and let Wu Zetian taste it.

Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

Hornet larvae (web image)

Then a plate of cockroaches was brought out. And the actor who plays Wu Zetian immediately shows exaggerated expression, shout "lovely "(Lovely), and begin to eat.

Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

Cockroaches (Web Images)

Since then, the two hosts have served the hump

Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

Bamboo Rat


Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

jellyfish


Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

Steamed bear meat


Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

 

At the same time, the two hosts expressed their displeasure and said that "disgusting", and" Wu Zetian "ate with relish and even called" delicious ". The two hosts saw this shape, turned their eyes white and turned around and began to vomit.

Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

 

And at this time ," Wu Zetian "said :" you know in the Tang Dynasty, these are our usual! "

Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

 

Finally, the two hosts said that because "Wu Zetian" passed the test, to reward her ten pounds of beef, but "Wu Zetian" very angry that cattle are used to pull the arable land, can not eat, even call "abominable ", and get up to chase the two hosts.

Once the program was broadcast on television, it immediately aroused strong dissatisfaction among the Chinese community. Many Chinese believe that the program's ugly Chinese image must be boycott. to the new fast network. At present, many domestic streaming media platforms have removed the sixth season of Bad History.

The broadcast of the program also triggered a heated debate among netizens, some netizens said that the program has always been a style of conduct, gag, anything will come out sarcastic, and think that other netizens are too sensitive. But the global times, the chinese media, points out that the program is less sophisticated in its parts, more like "brainless" than "joking ", but" racist "in the name of popular science, which is unacceptable.

Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

"Bad History" was complained about playing Nightingale

The global times also noted that "bad history" had interpreted the famous british nurse nightingale as a racist, then apologized for the complaint and dropped it program, and now content also suspected of racial discrimination against chinese can be broadcast openly on television.

Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

A classic film ," Gone with the Wind ", was temporarily removed from the HBO Max platform (Sydney Morning Herald)

Since the outbreak of the new crown, discrimination against Chinese is common, including even the mainstream media in Australia.

Moreover, in recent years, Europe and America show industry, including Hollywood, has launched a "rectification movement ", some of the past white actors played a black role in the" black face "behavior has been boycott, such as" Gone with the Wind "," Little Brethren "and other classic film and television works have been controversial, even faced with off the shelves. The streaming entertainment service Nyefe (Netflix) has also removed four comedies of Australian comedian Chris Liley (Chris Lilley) from its media library because of the controversial portrayal of non-white characters.

Wu Zetian eats cockroaches? Australian television broadcasts program children to ange

 

But in recent years, white actors have played Asian roles. For example, the famous American actor Scarlett Johansson in 2017 in the film "shell attack agents" in the role of Japanese Akiko, causing strong dissatisfaction among Japanese netizens. This "yellow face" behavior has not attracted attention.

Sydney's parents, Ms. Lee, told the New Fast Media journalist that, aside from racial discrimination, the file program for children, but children may not be able to distinguish between "drama" and reality. After watching the program, children are likely to take the stereotype that Chinese eat everything, which can sow the seeds of wrong cognition and racial discrimination. Make the idea of racial discrimination more deeply rooted.

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