The World According to Sesame Street

TO SESAME STREET and THE FILM~~

It was exactly the time when Anu Gupta says that "children are not born haters; they are taught to hate" did I found my eyes with tears. It was even more engaging and touching witnessing the identical innocent but perplexed expressions of both Albanian and Serbian children when being asked in which way they thought the other was so different and incommunicable.
Sesame Workshop's efforts in child education and this documentary provide me (an ordinary graduate student hundreds of miles away) not only a model, showing me how the capacity and momentum of learning, tolerance, love and mutual-respect can be built up; I also feel deeply infectious with your patience, perseverance and enthusiasm in humanity.
The frankness and courage of you in presenting how programs were pulled to a halt, struggling against sudden changes in political climate as well as power structure, or natural disasters deserves even much more of our applause. True, "we don't have the time to get mushy 'cause we have to move now." And it is the time for us to move as well!!
Don't give up, Sesame Street Crew in the Kosovo peace education program; and those of you in the South African, your fantastic program definitely serves as the most intriguing, superb and brilliant model for globalization theory, freeing children there from convenient import of Americanism.
Thank you all for making the world a better place, for the world is as much yours as mine.

Aimei Chang
(an ordinary girl on an unfamiliar, faraway island in eastern Asia- Taiwan)