Nostalgic to my Childhood, Symbolic to Your Culture

This essay explores fairy tales as culturally bound stories that serve the means of preserving and passing on cultural values collective identity. Under guise preservation teaching, communicate values, therefore keeping cultures ideologically stagnant; however, when appropriated tales, cannot be fully appreciated for their ideological value. By first establishing communication symbols inform tradition ideology, are discussed role in moral education children shaping children’s perceptions culture. German from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Brothers Grimm examined association with construction culture rise nationalism. Finally, American culture, though texts, tokens entertainment rather than