Horrible Histories ancient Chinese cuisine skit

Horrible Histories ancient Chinese cuisine skit


A skit on an award-winning program on the ABC's television channel for school-aged children has sparked widespread controversy in Australia's Chinese community.To get more news about China cuisine, you can visit shine news official website.

More than 1,200 people have signed a petition calling for the boycotting of the Horrible Histories program, over a segment from a 2015 episode of the children's comedy series that was aired on ABC Me last Friday evening.

In the show, which was produced by the BBC, a British actress of Asian descent appeared in traditional Chinese costume and ate rats, cockroaches, and jellyfish among other things.

It was part of a section that was explaining the eating culture from China's Tang Dynasty, which ended over 1,000 years ago.Many Chinese Australians believe the sketch would not have been intended as offensive to the community.

But they are concerned it may result in further misrepresentations of their culture, beliefs, practices and could lead to their kids being questioned or bullied at their schools.

Along with moves to create a broad boycott of the TV programme, some members of the Chinese-Australian community have asked the ABC to publicly apologise for the content."I hope that ABC could take down the Horrible Histories TV series, especially the series 6," said Say Leng Kapsis, the president of Fair Go SA, a not-for-profit organisation providing anti-racism services for Chinese Australians since the coronavirus pandemic.

"We just think that is really culturally inappropriate.

"We also hope that ABC in the future could have more considerations … whether it is culturally appropriate to show these types of content to our young children audience."Ms Kapsis said Chinese Australians had seen a shift in their awareness of racism this year, after conspiracies linked the origin of COVID-19 to images of Chinese people eating insects, snakes and bats.

The mother of a two-year-old girl told the ABC that some Chinese Australians were disappointed the episode had been replayed, because the pandemic "changed definitions of cultural sensitivity"."We have the Me Too movement and the Black Lives Matter. These are the samples that show how the political landscape and humanism have changed massively across the years," she said.