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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I think you've missed the pointIt's not about class. It's grammar. There are rules about this. They can be found in books.
EF is shit because (in my experience) it's a profoundly disorganised set up. One of my classes was without books for half of their course - books they had paid for and wanted to use. I was the only qualified teacher working there. The others were just undergraduates, some of those not even English natives. The kids all cheated in their placement tests and ended up in the wrong groups with their friends. You'd have Germans and Swedes with almost fluent English alongside Chinese who had excellent grammar but who'd never had a conversation in English.
Oh, and I had an interesting chat with the Swedish professor who writes the books for EF and he told me that he thinks the whole operation is a pile of shit.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 10:51, Reply)
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