That’s in fact one of the major dualities around the great British 70s sitcom “Mind Your Language”.
It focuses on an ESL class taught by Jeremy Brown (Barry Evans), full of minorities, all of whom have their issues and accents with learning the language, played up for comic effect.
The BBC canned the show after three seasons fearing racial backlash from the countries and communities mentioned…
…which, ironically, turned out…
…to be its biggest fans! And even today they still want more!
Why? Because the “stereotypes” reflected their memories of the old country and harmonized with their experiences in the new one! (As they still do, and you need to be an ESL teacher – like my college “twin sister”, now living and teaching in Orleans – to get this)
So maybe while Marlo Thomas and John Ritter have suffered the passage of time…
…Barry Evans, Albert Moses, Francoise Pascal and George Camiller will weather through.
(For more on cultural differences between the old and the new, watch “Bob Hearts Abishola”)
That’s in fact one of the major dualities around the great British 70s sitcom “Mind Your Language”.
It focuses on an ESL class taught by Jeremy Brown (Barry Evans), full of minorities, all of whom have their issues and accents with learning the language, played up for comic effect.
The BBC canned the show after three seasons fearing racial backlash from the countries and communities mentioned…
…which, ironically, turned out…
…to be its biggest fans! And even today they still want more!
Why? Because the “stereotypes” reflected their memories of the old country and harmonized with their experiences in the new one! (As they still do, and you need to be an ESL teacher – like my college “twin sister”, now living and teaching in Orleans – to get this)
So maybe while Marlo Thomas and John Ritter have suffered the passage of time…
…Barry Evans, Albert Moses, Francoise Pascal and George Camiller will weather through.
(For more on cultural differences between the old and the new, watch “Bob Hearts Abishola”)