Updated 27 August 2020 at 13:34 IST
China mouthpiece rejects criticism over kindergarten video, says 'play, let play'
Amid the growing criticism by the US over video of children dribbling basketballs in a synchronised manner, China's mouthpiece defended it as "cute game".
Amid the growing criticism by the United States over a viral video of Chinese children dribbling basketballs in a synchronised manner, the editor-in-chief of an English-language daily newspaper owned by the publicity department of the Chinese Communist Party has defended the game as “cute”. While many internet users were seen depicting the children in a circle dribbling two balls at a time and then passing them on in coordination as ‘terrifying’, Wang Hao joined the discussion by rejecting the negative narrative and saying “play” and “let play”.
Without mentioning any other country, the senior official working in China’s mouthpiece said that kindergarten students across the globe can try the same game “if they have enough balls”. Wang replied to a post in defence of the video by Shaun Rein who is the Founder of China Market Research. Shaun had said that the video depicts “determination and cooperation being taught”. CMR founder even questioned how the video is bad in the view of some people and noted that when it comes to China, even educated Americans view the situation with a negative lens.
Netizens have mixed reactions
From some calling the 10-second-long video from China’s kindergarten as “amazing” to others quickly rejecting the idea of treating children like “machines”, the video has drawn mixed reactions from the internet users. Many united to call the children in the video practising “active childhood” and promoted such activity to take place in all countries. However, Twitter users also said it doesn’t look like the children are enjoying, instead denoted the activity as training of “automatism”.
Published By : Aanchal Nigam
Published On: 27 August 2020 at 13:34 IST