Comments on: Elmo Goes to Pakistan http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/12/elmo_goes_to_pa/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Phillygrrl http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/12/elmo_goes_to_pa/comment-page-1/#comment-282791 Phillygrrl Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:08:34 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6482#comment-282791 <p>Je t'adore Mr. Rogers.</p> Je t’adore Mr. Rogers.

]]> By: anandi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/12/elmo_goes_to_pa/comment-page-1/#comment-282779 anandi Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:32:04 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6482#comment-282779 <p>I <3 Sesame Street. I watched it until I was 7 and it was no longer socially acceptable :D We gave up TV about a year before our baby was born, and don't really miss it. I figure she can get her Sesame St fix from the Internet or DVDs or something.</p> <p>I love that it's been translated into so many other languages/cultures. Very cool.</p> <p>Pravin Praveen - fistbump for a fellow Pittsburgher! Though I can't believe you didn't like Mr. Rogers. He's da man!</p> I <3 Sesame Street. I watched it until I was 7 and it was no longer socially acceptable :D We gave up TV about a year before our baby was born, and don’t really miss it. I figure she can get her Sesame St fix from the Internet or DVDs or something.

I love that it’s been translated into so many other languages/cultures. Very cool.

Pravin Praveen – fistbump for a fellow Pittsburgher! Though I can’t believe you didn’t like Mr. Rogers. He’s da man!

]]> By: Chunky Daddy http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/12/elmo_goes_to_pa/comment-page-1/#comment-282776 Chunky Daddy Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:39:14 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6482#comment-282776 <p>"Bad news, though. The characters of Count von Count and Cookie Monster have been cut from the Pakistani version of the show. I call shenanigans. How can there be a Sesame Street without a Count and a Cookie Monster. "</p> <p>Sesame Street always makes new local characters whenever it starts a new version in a country. Kids in other countries may not be able to relate to the American characters</p> <p>A humorous aside:- In most of the newer Sesame Street DVDs there is an advert in the beggining that tells you that your purchase is going towards funding Sesame Street programs around the world. They show clips of Sesame Street counting bits in different countries. In all the countries, they show kids/muppets counting 1,2,3. When they get to the Hindi version they go das, bees, tees, which translates to 10, 20, 30. Makes it look like Indian kids learn to count 10,20,30 while rest of the world is counting 1,2,3</p> “Bad news, though. The characters of Count von Count and Cookie Monster have been cut from the Pakistani version of the show. I call shenanigans. How can there be a Sesame Street without a Count and a Cookie Monster. “

Sesame Street always makes new local characters whenever it starts a new version in a country. Kids in other countries may not be able to relate to the American characters

A humorous aside:- In most of the newer Sesame Street DVDs there is an advert in the beggining that tells you that your purchase is going towards funding Sesame Street programs around the world. They show clips of Sesame Street counting bits in different countries. In all the countries, they show kids/muppets counting 1,2,3. When they get to the Hindi version they go das, bees, tees, which translates to 10, 20, 30. Makes it look like Indian kids learn to count 10,20,30 while rest of the world is counting 1,2,3

]]> By: Pravin Praveen http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/12/elmo_goes_to_pa/comment-page-1/#comment-282775 Pravin Praveen Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:21:40 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6482#comment-282775 <p>Can you imagine how riled up tea partiers would hve gotten if this money was funnelled for educating our own inner city youth who are in the same bad shape? IN the name of the war on terror, I guess social programs are fine for these folk.</p> <p>Having said that, this is money well spent compared to our other spending in Pakistan. Sesame Street is one of the very few kids show that I liked as a kid(usually I just watched regular shows as the grownups even at a young age). I didnt even like Mister Rogers despite spending my early childhood in Pittsburgh. When I went to live in India (due to some family situation), Sesame Street is the one show I associated with the greatness of American culture!!!</p> Can you imagine how riled up tea partiers would hve gotten if this money was funnelled for educating our own inner city youth who are in the same bad shape? IN the name of the war on terror, I guess social programs are fine for these folk.

Having said that, this is money well spent compared to our other spending in Pakistan. Sesame Street is one of the very few kids show that I liked as a kid(usually I just watched regular shows as the grownups even at a young age). I didnt even like Mister Rogers despite spending my early childhood in Pittsburgh. When I went to live in India (due to some family situation), Sesame Street is the one show I associated with the greatness of American culture!!!

]]> By: ZacharyLatif http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/12/elmo_goes_to_pa/comment-page-1/#comment-282772 ZacharyLatif Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:24:27 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6482#comment-282772 <p>I have to use my twitter account since facebook is down. I just got the last line.</p> <p>"And of course, not everyone is super thrilled that the US is giving funds for even more puppets in Pakistan…"</p> <p>I was reflecting last night how awesome American culture is; Facebook, twitter, glee (we're trying to do a glee type video combining an English play and Urdu ghana - fingers crossed it comes out well), blogs. I can only hope more of it gets exported, appropriated and grafted around the world. Is it just me or all Web 2.0 innovations arising in the West (Skype's from Estonia?) which is supposedly in decline?</p> <p>Nothing can beat open minds and so far as I know the most open-minded society is the West (though India's getting there). Not so subtle attempt to divert the thread from Pakistan and Islam (which I think we exhaust in BP).</p> I have to use my twitter account since facebook is down. I just got the last line.

“And of course, not everyone is super thrilled that the US is giving funds for even more puppets in Pakistan…”

I was reflecting last night how awesome American culture is; Facebook, twitter, glee (we’re trying to do a glee type video combining an English play and Urdu ghana – fingers crossed it comes out well), blogs. I can only hope more of it gets exported, appropriated and grafted around the world. Is it just me or all Web 2.0 innovations arising in the West (Skype’s from Estonia?) which is supposedly in decline?

Nothing can beat open minds and so far as I know the most open-minded society is the West (though India’s getting there). Not so subtle attempt to divert the thread from Pakistan and Islam (which I think we exhaust in BP).

]]> By: Rahul Rvd http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/12/elmo_goes_to_pa/comment-page-1/#comment-282771 Rahul Rvd Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:30:40 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6482#comment-282771 <p>My SM-Godwin ("As an SM discussion grows longer, the probability of any discussion turning into one about Pakistan or Islam, and eventually into one about terrorism, approaches 1") does not apply here but how kosher is it to bring up the political implications (and $20mil pricetag) of this occurrence.</p> <p>I wonder what Doordashan would've done with $20 Mil in the 1980s when India had it's own Sesame Street written by Gulzar.</p> My SM-Godwin (“As an SM discussion grows longer, the probability of any discussion turning into one about Pakistan or Islam, and eventually into one about terrorism, approaches 1″) does not apply here but how kosher is it to bring up the political implications (and $20mil pricetag) of this occurrence.

I wonder what Doordashan would’ve done with $20 Mil in the 1980s when India had it’s own Sesame Street written by Gulzar.

]]> By: Razib Khan http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/12/elmo_goes_to_pa/comment-page-1/#comment-282770 Razib Khan Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:44:52 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6482#comment-282770 <p>i watched the bangladeshi version of sesame street for free on amazon video. pretty cool.</p> i watched the bangladeshi version of sesame street for free on amazon video. pretty cool.

]]> By: Phillygrrl http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/12/elmo_goes_to_pa/comment-page-1/#comment-282769 Phillygrrl Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:38:37 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6482#comment-282769 <p>"Btw Phillygrrl are you a Pakistani-American Christian?" Yup, yup. *fistbump</p> “Btw Phillygrrl are you a Pakistani-American Christian?” Yup, yup. *fistbump

]]> By: Zachary Latif http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/12/elmo_goes_to_pa/comment-page-1/#comment-282763 Zachary Latif Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:44:07 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6482#comment-282763 <p>Good news on Sesame Street, going back to its roots (sort of). Sesame has an Arabic-Semitic root (Hindi cognate, according to Wikipedia, is gingli). Though for some reason Khayaban-e-Gingli doesn't sound as nice as Sesame street.</p> <p>Btw Phillygrrl are you a Pakistani-American Christian? I ask this as a British-Pakistani Baha'i. Minorities unite lol :-D</p> Good news on Sesame Street, going back to its roots (sort of). Sesame has an Arabic-Semitic root (Hindi cognate, according to Wikipedia, is gingli). Though for some reason Khayaban-e-Gingli doesn’t sound as nice as Sesame street.

Btw Phillygrrl are you a Pakistani-American Christian? I ask this as a British-Pakistani Baha’i. Minorities unite lol :-D

]]> By: boston_mahesh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2011/04/12/elmo_goes_to_pa/comment-page-1/#comment-282753 boston_mahesh Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:58:50 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6482#comment-282753 <p>Oh no! The main character is named "Rani" who wears <b>pig-tails</b>, which is obviously a Christian ploy to humiliate Muslims. Moreover, why is she forced to wear blue and white, which are the same colours of the Israeli flag? This is another <b>way for Crusaders to mentally defeat the Pakistanis.</b> And why are they banning the Count? Don't the Americans and other infidels realize that the Arabs <b>taught you people how to count with the great Arabic Numerals?</b></p> <p>Shame shame shame Sesame Street and USA. If you want to help us out, change the street name to Nehari Street, and please quit humiliating Rani.</p> <p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p> <p>If you couldn't detect any sarcasm, you seriously need help.</p> Oh no! The main character is named “Rani” who wears pig-tails, which is obviously a Christian ploy to humiliate Muslims. Moreover, why is she forced to wear blue and white, which are the same colours of the Israeli flag? This is another way for Crusaders to mentally defeat the Pakistanis. And why are they banning the Count? Don’t the Americans and other infidels realize that the Arabs taught you people how to count with the great Arabic Numerals?

Shame shame shame Sesame Street and USA. If you want to help us out, change the street name to Nehari Street, and please quit humiliating Rani.

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If you couldn’t detect any sarcasm, you seriously need help.

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