[SilasX]

Regardless of what you consider "culture", the French government had some conception of what kinds of things they wanted the teens to engage in, and this isn't it (even if it's worthwhile in its own right). I think that's the article's point, and the program may respond by restricting the funds' usage in the future.

[tsimionescu]

Here is a quote from the French governement site presenting the program [0]:

> Envie d’aller au théâtre, voir un film ou un spectacle ? De prendre des cours de photo ? D’un roman ou d’un manga ? [emphasis mine]

Which roughly means

Would you like to go to the theatre, see a film or a show? Take some photography courses? Read a novel or manga?

If the French government didn't intend for the money to be used this way, they certainly haven't told the people designing the site that promotes it.

[0] https://pass.culture.fr/

[vlunkr]

> the French government had some conception of what kinds of things they wanted the teens to engage in, and this isn't it

Is that true though? Maybe some people in the government feel that way, but it sounds like the goal was just to allow teenagers to buy what they wanted. If they thought kids were going to spend it to go the opera or something, why wouldn't they have put more restrictions on it in the first place?

[WastingMyTime89]

> the French government had some conception of what kinds of things they wanted the teens to engage in, and this isn't it

What? The French government isn't dumb. If they didn't want, teenagers to spend the pass money on BD, it would have been excluded. As is, I assume the French government is perfectly fine with French teenagers spending it on French produced entertainment in French stores.