Culturally, I wonder how spanking plays out.
Canada
Mexico
UK
Australia
France
Italy
Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Finland
Germany
Africa
South America
Japan
China
Other Asian
Muslim countries
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Cultural Aspects of Spanking--Countries Other than US
by blondie 15 Replies latest jw friends
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donald
even though i live in the usa...ive spent alot of time in canada....they preety muc are diveded on just like the USA...donald
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Englishman
I think the Brits enjoy it as much as anyone.
Englishman.
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blondie
Very silly, Mike.
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InquiryMan
Scandinavia: outlawed. Very politically incorrect. Rare among JW as well as in society in general as far as I know it. At least, it is not commonly accepted or endorsed.
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squinks
Englishman,
Very Funny.
Hmmm, I wonder how come the Scandinavians don't spare the rod like the Bible says. Could it be they have found a better way? Hmmm, I wonder if anyone looks at a thing like that and asks themselves if their are any other faulty guidelines in the Bible and therefore with the JW's. . . . Nah!
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InquiryMan
In fact, a brother said in a public talk that spanking was against the Bible. That the rod was merely symbolising parental authority and that spanking was against that spirit.... When relating this to some American brothers I met while vacationing, they were almost stumbled.. They did not figure out children could be disciplined without this method. They were also flabbergasted when they heard that the Society had "compromised" by allowing all references to corporal punishment to be removed in the translated literature.
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InquiryMan
could not resist using the funny word "flabbergasted". See definition: To be surprised or astonished. The British comedian Frankie Howerd used to say in mock astonishment: ?I?m flabbergasted?never has my flabber been so gasted!?. That?s about as good an explanation for the origin of this word as you?re likely to get. It turns up first in print in 1772, in an article on new words in the Annual Register. The writer couples two fashionable terms: ?Now we are flabbergasted and bored from morning to night?. (Bored?being wearied by something tedious?had appeared only a few years earlier.) Presumably some unsung genius had put together flabber and aghast to make one word. The source of the first part is obscure. It might be linked to flabby, suggesting that somebody is so astonished that they shake like a jelly. It can?t be connected with flapper, in the sense of a person who fusses or panics, as some have suggested, as that sense only emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. But flabbergasted could have been an existing dialect word, as one early nineteenth-century writer claimed to have found it in Suffolk dialect and another?in the form flabrigast? in Perthshire. Further than this, nobody can go with any certainty.
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LittleToe
Very silly, Mike.
No, really!
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Jahna
Here is just one glimpse into the controversy of spanking in Canada.
A Mennonite family in Ontario had their children removed from their care because of the spare the rod idea. It made many headlines for quite some time.
http://www.christianity.ca/family/parenting/2003/08.001.html
Jahna