I don't think that I have an opinion on this one way or the other, but I can tell you that I went to Beijing for 10 days and how they scaled up to teaching English in school and mandating that everyone be able to speak English before the Olympics is scary. I think that it is going to bite them in the behind because the younger generation is now almost so-American that it is going to be impossible to put the genie back in the bottle. It wouldn't be my choice of movies for teaching, but using movies and television programs is one of the major tools they are using to Americanize their vocabulary. The Chinese I met would do anything to socalize with Americans and wanted to talk about what it is like to live here. They have even gone so far to change their way of writing from vertical symbols to arranging them horizontally. Time will tell.

Janice