Now this was an interesting read....

[RoxFontaine]

I just had a 3rd year Junior High class. I thought this passage was very interesting.

This is directly from the textbook. (Sunshine English Course 3) I've transcribed it exactly as it is written.

Father: How was your visit to the amusement park?
Mike: It was great. Yuki really enjoyed the roller coaster.
F: Good. By the way, what are you watching?
M: A Japanese animation.
F: Oh, you're too old for that.
M: Come on, Dad. That's for popular American animation. Most Japanese animation is very different.
F: How is it different?
M: It's real art. The pictures are more beautiful, and the stories are fantastic. Dad, you've lived in Japan for a long time. You should learn more about Japanese culture.
F: Maybe you're right.

[Akagaminosteven]

Man, that dad is a pushover.

[grungy hamster]

Man, I can't believe him!

I can't stand such ignorance!

ANIMATION IS NOT ONLY FOR KIDS!

Stupid dad.

EDIT:

Oh right, </sarcasm>

[Lisa M]

Hahaha your textbook was written by Otaku!

[Scott Vincent]

Mike = Otaku

[Hira-Kata to Sawa]

Wow, that's great. But New Horizon textbooks encourage kids to study English through tales of death and war. Wow, the small girl and boy died due to radiation exposure in Hiroshima! Man, that makes me excited for English.

And it encourages kids to say their names backwards. How silly.

[Smidge204]

Man, I've long since given up trying to get my dad to understand that not everything that's animated is for kids. To this day, there is a copy of Akira in the children's section of his video collection -- right to the Hanna Barbera cartoons.

But that is a rather interesting scenario for a textbook, isn't it? Maybe I'm just not used to textbooks that are less than a decade old.
=Smidge=

[Antinomia]

Man, I've long since given up trying to get my dad to understand that not everything that's animated is for kids. To this day, there is a copy of Akira in the children's section of his video collection -- right to the Hanna Barbera cartoons.

But that is a rather interesting scenario for a textbook, isn't it? Maybe I'm just not used to textbooks that are less than a decade old.
=Smidge=

So, the hentai anime is on the other side of the Hanna Barbera cartoons? It's animated too, right? :P

[O-Matic]

>_<! Really, some people, like this dad, should just learn it the hard way: let's just mix Akira and some hentai into the cartoon section...and then wait for the kids to tell their parents another story about "cartoons"!