http://www.bazmakaz.com/clip/2007/04/11/pokemon-popular-culture-_-clip-37/ Critical Literacy In Practice Podcast - An on demand internet broadcast on critical literacy as it is practiced and talked about in different spaces and places around the globe. Thu, 17 May 2012 14:15:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://www.bazmakaz.com/clip/2007/04/11/pokemon-popular-culture-_-clip-37/comment-page-1/#comment-10417 RaeAnne Thompson Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:50:17 +0000 http://www.bazmakaz.com/clip/?p=136#comment-10417 Pokemon cards are a hot item to trade on the black market for young people on the playground! The problem with young people trading Pokemon cards is that after a trade, one party can decide that it was not a fair trade. Tears break out and a long discussion about why one character is valued more than the other ensues. It is interesting that Pokemon characters are non-gendered but children assign gender because of social stereotypes. The Pokemon creators have done a great job of creating a marketable product, advertising it, and engraining it into children’s culture. Pokemon cards are a hot item to trade on the black market for young people on the playground! The problem with young people trading Pokemon cards is that after a trade, one party can decide that it was not a fair trade. Tears break out and a long discussion about why one character is valued more than the other ensues. It is interesting that Pokemon characters are non-gendered but children assign gender because of social stereotypes. The Pokemon creators have done a great job of creating a marketable product, advertising it, and engraining it into children’s culture.

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