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As to television and radio programmes that penetrate into every household, the corruptive effect on youths and juveniles is especially shocking. Works of "literature and art" that preach violence, deception and the scramble for money and position dominate the scene. Decadent music blaring throughout the night keeps instilling into people's minds the philosophy of life that stresses money as everything and puts material comforts as the very thing that one lives for. kinds of commercial advertising also play up such hedonistic ideas as "men of success" and "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die," corrupting the souls of youths. Just as a reader said in a newspaper, youths and students attend "television sessions" day and night and learn how to commit rape, practice deception, fight it out, seek revenge, make money, fool around with women,, and so forth.
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Movies playing in Hong Kong are especially marked by sex and violence. According to an official of a British film censorship office, of 600-plus'films shown from 1977 to 1978; only 7 were "fit for family consumption. Such a frightening situation has become especially serious in the past two years. Every day people can pick a number of films from movie advertisements in the press with such titles as "Human Desire,'
The riduculous "Sex Obsession," "Hectic Sex Life" and so forth. part of it is that in recent years even animated cartoons have been rated as "unfit" for children. A British official in Hong Kong.recently said that 55 to 75 percent of movies playing in. Hong Kong in recent years have been "unfit for juvenile consumption." The problem is that those children" are only supposedly confined to an audience under the age of 18.
The stipulation about "not for children" actually has little meaning. Numerous youths and juveniles, including those students wearing school uniforms and carrying textbooks, are frequent viewers of those films supposedly "not for children."
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