Political Correctness Gone Mad
Freddy 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)
Freddy 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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Ha! With so many students, there's no chance of doing an oral test of each student. They give them all a written test with about 25 multiple choice questions. Oddly, these are roughly accurate. If they don't cheat. And cheating is in the DNA of many international school kids: Italians, Greeks, Poles, French, Spanish...
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Ha! With so many students, there's no chance of doing an oral test of each student. They give them all a written test with about 25 multiple choice questions. Oddly, these are roughly accurate. If they don't cheat. And cheating is in the DNA of many international school kids: Italians, Greeks, Poles, French, Spanish...
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