Lebanon's Mini Mafia: Shows showing kids navigating grown-up society always generate backlash
I barely saw the promo to the new show on Al Jadeed TV dubbed Mini Mafia and I knew this was too honest a show to survive not being axed or watered down to such a degree that it becomes no longer as good or as interesting. What struck me was how indoctrinated our children are from a very young age, as if their guardians, their families and tribe wish to place their stamp on them lest they be tempted to defect to another ideological camp. Anything involving kids, even cartoons of kids acting and reacting in a grown up world mimicking adult behavior, adopting adult mannerisms, while still being just kids, will always court controversy. South Park, a favorite show of mine at one time, is a case in point. Children are in the end a product of their environment and the grown ups that shape their minds, whether parents or teachers or other role models on television or tik tok. In the Al Jadeed show, one of the kids, obviously from the Shiite community, was dressed in all black and was vowing ...