The Sneetches

[ShiningTeruko]

My school's doing a musical on this! :D Tried out, hoping for a lead role!

[MrKidDiddy]

Ahh this explains modern politics

[Tuathalful]

Great story. Thanks for the reading. much appreciated :)

[naturalmathdotcom]

Thank you for making it. I am recommending it for my online parent class on early math "Moebius Noodles" - we are doing Function Machines.

[CNZgirl]

ya my class is studying tolerance XD

[meggiethecat]

my professor wants us to watch this and write a short discussion on this.

[jfstrain]

Thanks 6TwoReasons for the kind words. It's funny how something you do, trying to be positive is interpreted in so many negative ways. Perhaps the comments say more about the commenter than that which they scrutinize.

[6TwoReasons]

This story is great, so many lessons all in one book. It does amaze me how stupid some of the people commenting on this video can be, though. There are elementary students who would have picked up on the racism piece on page 2, yet some of these idiots are missing it. I also appreciate the piece at the end, it doesn't matter how obvious it was, putting it in writing never hurts!

[coolnerd520]

my r.e teacher showed us this in class today. we're studing prejudice and discrimination :P

[cocacola1645]

im dressing as a sneetch for storybook character day:)

[123yasha]

It reminds me more of fashion lol. Vogue shoes newest and greatest fashion then everyone has to go and get the same things they see in the magazine. Then every month a new magazine comes out and something new is in style or they bring back something from past fashion. :p

[sammyxoxoscake]

we wont find another auther like dr suess

[F0res33ndeath]

69 likes

[drgglow]

Dr. Seuss IS all about racism, religion, and politics! HeeeeeLLLOOOO!!!

[Noednoefpoe]

Thanks for ruining a Dr. Seuss book by making me think about racism, religion and politics.

Asshole.

[logicpractitioner]

@Noednoefpoe Dr. Seuss meant this as a commentary on anti-semitism. He used children's books as an outlet for all sorts of political commentary.

[supmayne1]

This is basically talking about teens and MTV... Changing the way they look to fit in

[BZSPIRIT]

You can also see at the plain bellied sneetches as people who are never content with what they have. Like people with curly hair who straighten it or people with straight hair who curl it.

[MsJony1234]

Crafty bastard ! ...

[jfstrain]

I also have this video on Facebook.

[littlemisssarah1]

I need to watch this movie to compare it to the diary of Anne Frank! Does anyone know a link or something??! HELP!!!

[Roncace]

I hope this story teaches people a thing or two about racism and discrimination

[SkyRifter]

1:16 <The SEX Change Machine is Here'z!*

Hooraah!

[mcrandtheused4life]

the sonds gone :((( ugh i needed this for homework

[purpleguy319]

Sounds Gone? Ha! Serves you right for getting more views than me! :P

[eirino0369]

what kind of stupid logic that is?

[AoStheclan]

@eirino0369 It about racism.

[itsjustajump2theleft]

lmao i just watched this for my anthropology class hw

<3 suess

[MandyandJLB]

hehe so did i bc i lost my text book lol :)

[nauselom]

you seem to miss the fact that the sneetches were broke, weaseled out of their money by the capitalist folk... (lol sorry for some reason Suess gives me the urge to rhyme)

[azianxgirl]

can you guys tell me what song at the end was?

[Rikaeay22]

THE SNEETCHES are amazing!!! I could watch them all day!

[Nicolems13]

me and my friend r doing this book in a drama class :)

[powerpup97]

Nice. Love the song at the end too!

[ChrisRJ]

You can also look at the story as Popular people vs. Unpopular people..

Who ends up winning in the end? The one who tells them what's popular & not.

Who loses? The PEOPLE!

[tom9987]

THAT ACCENT IS [I]ANNOYING[/I]

[YTMongrel]

Warning: Dr. Seuss Enterprises are on the warpath. watch?v=-gfHzcob-i4

[purpleguy319]

DAMN YOU JOHN STRAIN!!! :(

[elhae2]

wtf reading for nerds dawm it@#!%&$^ >:o!!!!!

[Decepticonx7]

Ah Dr. Seuss, by far the most important American writer of the 20th century.

[ngilsinger]

you can teach a sneetch

[hoops153]

Dr. Suess is the best author ever

[Robertoe11]

watch the Grinch who Stole Chritmass.. at aroun 2 minutes it says "join the KKK"

[mosbey123]

haha... CONSPIRACY THEORY!!!! don't diss the Doc like that... look up the lyrics its "yards of wofut flant"

[Malapterus]

it was cool until the end

[fuji9991]

I totally agree, the end was shocking, out of place, and insulting. This story is about the evil nature of arms dealers and the opposing countries that make them rich. Not race

[Hubehouse]

"Better Butter Battle" (I believe is the correct name for the story) is about the arms race. "The Sneetches" is about racism. Look at the time it was written and read almost any Seuss biography.  Always examine historical context surrounding the date of the text -- that's what I tell my students.

[fuji9991]

Really? I guess I always looked at the dealer in this story and not how people were treating one another. I am not sure what that figure represents in terms of race? The media? Interesting. It is a good lesson in both views I think.

[tom9987]

how the white people thought they were better than black people (whites are sneetches with stars)

[speller421]

yeah really. it's a childrens story! i still favorited it, but the end was really bad.

[kfergu3]

why ruin it with the very last bit? think we can't figure where it applies? geez.

[missredcross]

my second favourite story by him!:) (oh, the olaces you'll go! has to be the first one

thanks for uploading this video!

[1JenniferMM]

thanks for posting

[KingOfLeon7]

word

[ibyte78]

Cogent guidance in these times...