I assume Brat Camp has now been shown in europe? What was the general reception? Do people think it is barbaric, inspirational? How are the kids portrayed in comparison to their UK and American counterparts?
First of all it is a fake program built on the program at Turnabout Ranch, but certainly not as harsh as the original program. Germany is more civilialised and it would have resulted in a public outcry, if they had to go through what the British kids did some years ago.
Second there two main oppinions:
1) Germany should be able to take care of their own children. There is something wrong with parents, who would fix problems by sending the children out in the desert.
2) Kids should be seen - not heard. They deserve their fate. Why bring them back?
I also have to quote from the lastest review from the show: (
http://www.phuckd.co.uk/2006/10/12/family-brat-camp/)
Last night was a veritable chavalanche of mockery - The Kenny Family, with their lunatic Elizabeth Duke Princess daughter, The Paramol lot with their half man half beast daughter that could barely string a coherent sentence together that didn?t sound like a mumbling retard, The Sparow lot, another Elizabeth Duke Princess that thought she was Ali-G, innit. And possibly the most retarded The Tates - although we didn?t see much of their ?troubled? son, i saw enough of old woman Tate to make me want to throw myself out the window.
Anyway, so you throw a few do-gooders/brainwashers into this equation, rile up the little shits so they have a hissy fit, rile up the parents to make them do the same and put it all on film.
The worst part of the whole show was the mangina that is Mark Paramor getting lambasted by his wife and daughter because they had to go on a trek without him??????? what the shit - his wife was as stupid as the daughter - she needed to sort her own whining self out before blaming all ills on her little chavette, yet mangina carried on giving into them - how i laughed.
Who is getting laughed at - The parents or the children? I think that we in Europe have a kind of suspicion of the behavior of our children have something to do with our behavior. Just a suspicion.