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)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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MulatoIs also a Spanish word, meaning a child with one black parent and one white parent. They still use it in Spain today.
Which lead my Spanish class onto a big topic about whether we could say half caste (We thought not) and whether mixed race was the right term (we thought not as it could mean any race).
We decided to use mulato from thence on, but as a adjective not a noun, like a colour.
I mean what else do you use? He is half black half white is a bit long winded..mixed race isn't right...half caste not right...
What I don't get is why in the US they say "african-american". WHy not just say black, it makes it a lot easier.
Black, white, asian, indian, hispanic.
That's all you need.
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 22:48, Reply)
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