As I’ve been reading on “Cultivation Theory,” by Gerbner George to make sense on my thesis work, I remember the time when I was a part of a Soviet culture at school. The intriguing point of the theory apeared to be an idea that heavy viewers of television are prone to “mean world” syndrome. But I must confess when I was a school girl I really loved TV. And I remember the first satellite Russian-American joint program by Phil Donahue and Vladimir Posner shown on Soviet TV in 1980s.

I believe most of the people in the former Soviet Union still remember about the show with one of the persons among the Soviet audience answering to the American one that here in the USSR we don’t have sex. There were two or three parts of the joint TV talk shows and that was it. I don’t know why but I was extremely interested in watching more and to know more about other part of the world and this disire I wouldn’t put in “mean world” syndrome.

So, as that program appeared for me quite interesting at that time, my folks weren’t much excited.

Maybe they were too busy with themselves. I guess the fact that my father was a real Soviet man played a role. He’d been an old chap of Soviet navy. He could not change. Mom could hardly speak Russian at that time, now speaks well. And I remember at Russian school where I studied I was told as to other school children not to speak Kyrghyz because it was a Russian school.

Now I try to anylize what kind of cultivation I was in as I read comminication theories. If I’m not any longer in that cult then where am I right now? Yes, now I can speak whatever language I want but can I afford it? I’m just heading towards that opportunity.