Week#14 - Culture in Storytelling

ONLINE RESOURCES

Cultural Stories

http://www.worldoftales.com/

Long list of Folk texts

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Myths & Legends

http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/myth.html

Folk Tales from around the World - YouTube Playlist

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT67RSvE2YqJaK2R3t0jShSGaAcOHLzy3

Korean Folk Tales

Ten Influential Modern and Contemporary Korean Writers

http://theculturetrip.com/asia/south-korea/articles/a-century-of-tumult-ten-important-modern-korean-authors/

American Culture through FiIm
http://blog.interexchange.org/career-training-usa/2011/11/02/a-glimpse-of-american-culture-through-film/

Disney Movies and Racism
http://disneyandmovies.pbworks.com/w/page/17905683/FrontPage

10 Racist Storybookshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCdBmddPa1Q

Stereotypes in Children's Media
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT281Oxxg1sYiJzASexeyS3RqecLmge5t

Yellow Face - a History of Racist Asian Stereotypes

http://yellow-face.com/

Where Do Koreans' Ideas about Race Come From?

http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2006/02/where_do_korean.html

History of BlackFace in Korea

http://populargusts.blogspot.kr/2012/03/three-decades-of-black-face-in-korea.html

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Discussion Questions

• What are your favorite traditional Korean stories, folk tales, or myths?
  Which ones best represent Korean culture?  How so?

• Which modern stories (novels, movies, poems, etc.) best represent periods of Korean history or aspects of its culture and society?  How so?
  
• Are there Korean stories that bother you or seem to misrepresent parts of Korean culture?
  
• What are some of your favorite traditional stories or folk tales from other cultures?

• What examples of racism or cultural misrepresentations can you think of in traditional or modern stories from Korea or elsewhere?

• Which cultural stories (Korean or not) do you think teach a valuable lesson?
  
• How have you or might you use cultural stories in your teaching?