Japan Teaches Its Children to Hate
More shocking news out of Japan today, as video from a Japanese TV show’s Anti-Zombie stunt makes the rounds.
Essentially, what seems to have happened here is this: a tv show convinces three small siblings that the Zombie Apocalypse is at hand, and a Zombie is specifically coming to their home to eat them.
Now, any apocalypse where your doom is personally assigned and delegated by appointment seems to be a pretty well run apocalypse to me, but these are very small children so they don’t seem to realize how… artificial the whole setup is.
The kids are encouraged by the host of the show to run home and prepare traps and defenses against their personalized faux-Undead assailant, and being so encouraged, they quickly devise a variety of Home Alone-esque traps to deter the ‘Zombie’.
The entire exercise is obviously intended as some sick form of humor, but we here at the ZRC find it harrowing. The sheer lengths that it is apparently acceptable to go to in contemporary Japanese society in order to teach their children hatred for, and fear of, the Differently Animated is astonishing. Live action Zombie-bashing drills? On television?
I think it’d be a good idea for any Zombies traveling in Asia to avoid Japan whenever possible; consider this video a travel advisory. It’s just not safe walking the streets now that they’re inducting the next generation into Anti-Zombie assault squads. You know when the paramilitaries start indoctrinating children into violence that a society is on its last legs, and very bad things tend to quickly follow.
The disturbing footage is viewable below:
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