Results: Are Your Parents Like You? Survey
August 10th, 2008 at 6:20 pm (Miscellaneous, Take)
Apologies for showing this late gesture of appreciation (due to RL), but many thanks to those who have participated in the survey I’ve created 9 days ago. Now let’s look at the results.
| My parents… | ||
|---|---|---|
| Response Percent |
Response Count |
|
| Are a bigger Otaku than I am! | 2.7% | 1 |
| Also read manga. We talk and share the stuff~ | 5.4% | 2 |
| Don’t know I read manga at all. Shhh, it’s a secret hobby | 10.8% | 4 |
| Know I read manga, but it’s not something we talk about… | 62.2% | 23 |
| Know I read manga and are repulsed by it and trying to convince me to stop | 8.1% | 3 |
| Doesn’t know what manga is even though I tried to explain it a million times | 0.0% | 0 |
| Thinks all manga is for children | 10.8% | 4 |
| answered question | 37 | |
| skipped question | 0 | |
It would seem that the majority of the respondents are at an understanding with their parents, apparently keeping their interest something not to be talked about in the open. I understand where you’re coming from. Especially when you live in a country that looks as a medium like manga as the Japanese equivalent of an American comic book. Sure, some of the manga that were being pandered ti the mainstream contain comedy, hentai moments, and the like, but a deeper probe into the subculture unearthens a yet to be discovered wealth of possibilities. They have been used:
- as a medium to introduce and familiarize the young generation with the Scriptures of the Bible
- as a medium to tackle the sensitive issue of teenage pregnancy
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
