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  • This house opposes the resurgence of 'emo culture' in the entertainment industry

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    “Emo culture” is a style of music and fashion that became popular in the 2000s, with bands like My Chemical Romance leading the trend. It often focuses on themes of sadness, heartbreak, and self-expression, and was also seen in Malaysia through bands like Bunkface and Hujan. While many young people embraced it as an outlet for their feelings, others criticized it for being too dark. Today, with emo bands making a comeback, this culture is resurfacing in the entertainment industry.

    Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Grand Final · 2025-08-18

  • This House, as House, as a local apparel company, would reject Westernised apparel design culture in favour of promoting locally rooted and culturally inspired designs.

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    Global fashion trends dominate local markets, with Western designs overshadowing cultural attire. A local apparel company faces declining identity, choosing whether to embrace mass Western styles or champion locally inspired designs to preserve heritage

    Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Semifinals · 2025-08-18

  • This House, as Mahito, would accept the reins of the otherworld from his granduncle

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    Mahito is a young boy in wartime Japan who loses his mother in a hospital fire and struggles to adapt after his father remarries his aunt and relocates the family to his late mother’s rural estate. He shares a loving but somewhat distant relationship with his father, while being deeply cherished by his aunt and cared for by her maids. At the estate, Mahito encounters a talking grey heron that leads him into a magical, otherworldly realm connected to his family’s past. This realm opens its doors to those in great distress and is inhabited by spirits and fantastical creatures—among them, the souls of those awaiting rebirth into the real world, and predatory pelicans that consume these spirits to survive. Within this realm, Mahito meets his granduncle, the creator and caretaker of this alternate world. Weary and nearing the end of his life, the granduncle offers Mahito the reins of this seemingly perfect world. However, if Mahito accepts this offer, he will never be able to return to the real world.

    BRAC Genders 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-15

  • This House prefers Disney optimism to Ghibli optimism in children's media

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    For the purpose of this debate, there are two tropes in children's media. ""Disney optimism"" presents a world with clear good and evil, wherein good always triumphs. ""Ghibli optimism"" presents a world with no true evil and morality is subjective, where peaceful compromise is ultimately possible and neither side necessarily triumphs.

    BRAC Genders 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-08-15

  • This House Would choose the sexual album over the introspective album

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    You are an American singer and actress in your early twenties. You gained widespread recognition as a teenager through your role on a popular Disney Channel series. Since then, you’ve released several albums that delve into themes of love, self-discovery, and personal growth, achieving moderate success. As you prepare for your next album, your label has presented you with two options: Album A (the sexual album), which focuses on explicit displays of sexuality, and Album B (the introspective album), which continues the introspective themes you’ve explored in your previous works.

    PKU Pro-Am 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-09

  • This House Prefers a World where a more optimistic set of artists rose to prominence after World War I rather than the Lost Generation.

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    For the purposes of this debate, the Lost Generation is a group of writers and artists who created their art in and around World War I (e.g. writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald; other artists such as Edvard Munch and Otto Dix). The art of the Lost Generation featured prominent themes of disillusionment, defeatism, and uncertainty about the future. The artists often drew from their experience of the war and their troubled personal lives. Their art has had significant influence over later artistic trends and holds a prominent position in many art and literature curriculums globally.

    Copenhagen European Universities Debating Championships 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-08-03

  • This house prefers East Asian-style hero narratives over Western-style hero narratives

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    In many East Asian comics, protagonists become powerful through long-term self-cultivation, often involving spiritual refinement, years of training, reincarnation cycles, and mastering inner energy (Qi). For example, in Tales of Demons and Gods, the protagonist uses knowledge from a past life to ascend slowly through a complex cultivation hierarchy. These stories often emphasize internal growth, discipline, and destiny shaped by perseverance. The journey is gradual, and characters may be reborn or start from weakness to slowly ascend over time. This reflects a collectivist and harmony-oriented worldview. By contrast, Western superhero comics typically focus on sudden or accidental transformations who gain their powers through sudden events, with plots centered on external conflict, such as crime-fighting and battling villains. For example, Spider-Man gains powers instantly and fights local crime while juggling personal issues. These stories reflect a more individualistic worldview focusing on personal choice and the burden of individual greatness.

    Hart House Women and Gender Minorities Debating Tournament 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-08-02

  • This house supports the increasing trend of hopecore media(Superman, Up and Ratatouille) over media that is nuanced and complicated

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    Hopecore media is media made with the purposes of instilling simplistic moral values of hope, sincerity and other positive attributes

    IUT IC 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-08-01

  • This house, as an up-and-coming young game designer, W rather work in an indie studio rather than a triple A studio

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    ** Indie game studios are video game studios that are newer and more independent in comparison to larger video game developers, also known as ‘triple A studios’. Examples of triple A studios include Sony, Nintendo, or Ubisoft. Indie game studios have produced commercially successful games, such as Minecraft, Limbo and Undertale. **

    APIIT ISDC 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-07-29

  • This house believes that exclusive art spaces bring more harm than good.

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    Exclusive art spaces refer to exhibitions or installations that limit access to certain groups, usually based on identity. The Ladies' Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, Australia, is an example of an exclusive art space that recently prohibited cisgender men from entering the exhibit. The museum subsequently faced a discrimination lawsuit, which led to the closure of the lounge.

    Ho Chi Minh Debate Open 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-07-26

  • This house believes that winners in the Big Four Awards should be determined entirely by public vote

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    The Big Four Awards include the Oscars, Grammys, Emmys and Tonys which are the most prominent performing art and entertainment awards based in the United States. They are held annually and are traditionally decided by professional voting bodies i.e. The Television Academy (Emmys), The Recording Academy (Grammys), The American Theatre Wing & The Broadway League (Tonys), and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars).

    Ho Chi Minh Debate Open 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-07-26

  • THBT, to change the world, it is better for art to be beautiful than present a clear moral message

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    "In The Frogs, the protagonists travel to the underworld to revive playwrights, in the hope that great art can bring moral direction to their war-torn, apathetic societies. The protagonists forego their first choice playwrights (Euripides or Shaw) known for their instructive and clear morality to return with more forthcoming, lyrical playwrights (Aeschylus, Shakespeare), making the case that art can change the world more effectively when it is beautiful, even as beauty comes at the cost of its moral character."

    Imperial Intervarsity 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-26