A Cartoon No Child Should Be Seeing : Chop Socky Chooks
14:01 H | Topics: Children - Race - TV
I generally think poorly of most of the cartoons on t.v. these days and with a 10 year old, I'm pretty familiar with the different channels and their lineups. So when I saw the following advert for a new toon on cartoon network- well even my 10 year old recognized that this cartoon was problematic to say the least.
Does anyone else think the characters are a little too racially stereotypical? My kid did!
Angry Asian Man points out something that should have been obvious to me, but I guess I was so astounded by the imagery, that I missed the word/sound connection.
In Australia and other parts of the world, "chook" is apparently slang for chicken, which is what I guess these weird-looking characters are supposed to be. Forgive me for thinking that "chook" just sounds too much like a racial slur.
Yeah, another reason why kids shouldn't be watching television.
Via / Angry Asian Man
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1. jessica ~ Saturday, Mar 29 2008 | 18:39H:
chop socky chooks isnt the wost cartoon on tv theres cartoons on cartoon network since im a 12 year old and ive seen much much much worse then this its only bad if someone that is like 4 i watching it so its a preety good show just watch and see
2. Jennifer Head ~ Saturday, May 10 2008 | 21:12H:
I just saw the show like an hour ago. I loved it! It was so cute! The Chicken named Chuckie Chan reminded my mom and I of my boyfriend Angel who is Colombian. Truthfully I saw no racism in it.I did like that they used chickens as the main characters because Angel and I have a cute little group called Chicken Huggers Anonymous, where we try to raise awareness about chickens.


