Talk:Brat Camp
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Other critics point out that the show paints a picture that only white children are bratty. - I think it paints a picture that only white parents don't know how to deal with bratty kids. :-/ John Barleycorn 04:38, July 30, 2005 (UTC)
- I'm white, and I think the stereotypes in the article are racist. Scott Gall 07:39, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
- I removed the whole Controversy section and the link to the Criticism against brat camp as it is not reliable. This I did with the support of this section of the rules: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence Zygnus 21:43, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] But there are plenty of critism against the program
The show was made to show us Europeans if the american though love concept is a sollution to all our problems with teenagers going out of control.
Instead it has turned into a kind of porn, where the youngster wants 15 minutes of fame and we viewers wants to see their breakdowns as they are tortured. I am not alone with this problem. http://www.slate.com/id/2125096/
I did not make the rasist remarks, but the other points were good enough. In Europe, we do not allow parents to hire a private firm to come and get our child from its own bed in the middle of the night. We do not allow a private firm to handcuff our own child just because the child has broken houserule and not the laws of the society.
So the show did not show reality even though it was a reality show.
If you look on: http://wwf.fornits.com/viewforum.php?f=37&sid=5b2c1aae24fa72084705b442d4cddc9f you will find several people there have been at redcliff at the same time as the brits. Silk gloves were used and only in series 3 we were allowed to see Lucy being tortured for an hour.
The hole concept of brat camp does not deal with deeper lying problems with the children. It only teaches them how to be nice out of pure fear of being sent back. The result was so clear on family brat camp, where a mother did chicken out in the end, because she had to face reality. She wanted to leave the desert - not her child. The parents responsibility is missing in these series.
- I do not disagree that the show is cruel, but I do disagree with editing articles based on emotions. The neutrality of the link providing the criticism in the former article was non-existent. Again I show to Wikipedia's article about neutrality and reliable source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view Zygnus 09:14, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
