Reasons to Be Interested in Foreign Television Some shows express or betray unfamiliar attitudes and cultural phenomena because those phenomena are just close at hand. The oppressive, domineering, vulgar family in the Polish show Sexify is not like any U.S. vulgarity: it is a home-grown thing, which is interesting to see next to our local versions of the same vice. Similarly, the university situation, the relations between students and teachers, is not what universities in the U.S. generate. The classy, subtle racism tinged with colonialism and anti-semitism in Lupin is not equivalent to the U.S. version, and so the anti-racist hero-thief is also something that wouldn't show up quite that way in the U.S. context. But, I think, seeing other people's patterns helps alert people to patterns they may have taken to be just "the way things are". That is a separate virtue from expressing anything, telling people anything. It is also separate from the overall evaluation of