Friday, October 5, 2007

I don't get it!

I got some feedbacks from a few good friends that their kids couldn't understand some the jokes here. Amen, say no more, brothers and sisters!

As I told you before that Indigo complained that many of these jokes were really lame. Most of the time, I got a some what blank stare "I don't get it!". She could understand each sentence or the whole joke, but she couldn't understand where the funny part was or why it was funny. It's frustrating to explain left and right why it is funny, still she doesn't laugh. Oh forget it, you'll get a laugh from her just by tickling her ;-).

You don't need a scientific study to conclude that there's a culture gap between a generation of foreign born parents and their America-born children. Some people call it intuition, some people call it a hunch. Darnit, these kids just don't think many of the jokes that we, or the people in the old country normally consider funny, are funny. Why?! Could it be that these kids are fed on American milk, which washes away any of their ancestry humor genes? Or could it be that the kids don't talk with each other or to their parents for that matter in Chinese and so they become deficient in Chinese humor? Maybe we should feed them some vitamin Zh!

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1 comment:

Eddie Cheng said...

Hey man, it has nothing to do with culture. The jokes just ain't funny.

There are very few real good jokes in Chinese, other than those that were originally translated from other languages.