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Topic：History of Nintendo
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Source: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20090911/t ... 078a1.html
TAIJI, Japan (AFP) - – To animal rights activists it's a cruel and bloody slaughter; for Japanese it's a long tradition: this week fishermen in a picturesque coastal town embarked on their annual dolphin hunt.Every year, crews in motorboats here have rounded up about 2,000 of the sea mammals, banged metal poles to herd them into a small, rocky cove and killed them with harpoons, sparing a few dozen for sale to marine aquariums.But this year the small southwestern town of Taiji was shunted into the global spotlight with the release of the hard-hitting US-made eco-documentary "The Cove".In the film, years in the making, a team of underwater cameramen, free divers and other experts used hidden cameras and other technical devices to covertly capture the hunt in graphic detail.The film shows angry confrontations between residents and the lead activist, Ric O'Barry, who in the 1960s trained dolphins for the US hit television show "Flipper" but now argues the animals should be free to roam the oceans.
The film won numerous international prizes, including the Sundance Festival's audience award, and last month led the Australian city of Broome to announce it would cancel it sister-city relationship with Taiji."Dolphins are a large-brain creature," O'Barry, 69, told AFP during a recent return visit to Japan. "They are highly intelligent, they are self-aware, like gorillas and humans. I nursed them, I watched them give birth."And for me, to kill them, is extremely, extremely..." He paused, then simply added: "I don't see the purpose."In Taiji, where about 3,700 people live, the global uproar stirred by "The Cove" has met with equal incomprehension -- and anger.
Questions:
1. What's your favorite animal and why? If one day, you hear from someone that people in somewhere actual consider your favorite animal is their food. What do you feel about this?
2. What's your opinion regarding to this article? Do you think Japanese should keep their tradition or abandon it just because animal rights activist is protesting it?
3. Peopel always say we need to continue our tradition and teach it to our next generation. Will you encourage them to keep this custom if it's going to hurt other species?
4. What do think the citizen in Taiji says “If it's cruel to kill dolphins, it's also cruel to kill cows and pigs”?
5.Can you give some suggestions how to resolve this confliction? At the one hand Japanese wants to keep their tradition but at the other hand people are blaming them because of their bloody slaughter. Do you think animal rights activist should compromise a little bite and showing some respect to this culture?
6. Can you give us some examples which are with the similar situation? What's the result of that?
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