Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
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Personal experianceMy mother adopted a daughter from Sri Lanka 18 years ago.(Best thing she ever did). We have always left it to her to dictate how we bring about the subject of her origin. Being very, very dark skinned it was obvious she was going to realise she was adopted. At first she wasn't happy about the subject of her culture and heritage being brought up and the fact that she was different but now after a couple of visits to Sri Lanka, she's proud of her origins.
She's also the only black girl I know who tries to get darker when she goes abroad. She's as dark as an African to start with.
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