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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BBC Asian NetworkNot completely on topic, but when did most of Asia disappear? This has been bothering me for a while. The BBC Asian Network appears to only have programmes/articles/pictures of peoples from countries on, what would historically been called, the 'sub-continent'. Do the other Asian countries, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, et al, no longer exist?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 12:42, 4 replies)
I have noticed this for you BritishersIn Oztraylia we think of Asia as just up from us a bit; mostly China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam. Indonesia is Indonesia. India is India. The Phillippines aren't really Asia for us either. And most of all, this big continent bordered more or less on three sides by Asian nations is mos'def' NOT Asia.
Still, with a change in government maybe tomorrow we can start to Asian again, after a lapse of some 10 years....
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 13:48, closed)
Definition"Asia" as a geographic continent does indeed include the countries you mentioned.
However, in a cultural sense, "Asian" refers to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh etc.
The other countries you mentioned come under the cultural label of "Far East", or "Oriental". Yes, they share a continent with the Indians - but the cultures are quite different.
Therefore when the BBC Asian Network produces programmes, they are catering for the culture of the sub-continent.
As an aside, it's interesting to note that in America they refer to Orientals as "Asians". Presumably they're taking the word in its strict geographic sense. However, in the UK we acknowledge the massive cultural differences between Pakistan and Japan - you could not get more different, really!
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 14:07, closed)
Thanks for clarifying that EurosongOriental, imagine that?
I shall have to tell the local Japanese restaurant to stop referring to their food as Asian cuisine.
And, is this the same Oriental as Oriental/Occidental? As in East/West of the Greenwich meridian? How far east do you have to go before you start being oriental?
Are people from Norwich Oriental, even though they're classed as European, a geographic denomination.
And, why is the Middle East, closer than India? If China, etc, is Far East, does that make India THE East?
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 14:51, closed)
OooooorientalsThat's ya common or garden orientals innit?
The yanks can't stand that tho and group everyone from Belarus, to mongolia, to india and Korea in the same pot.
Stupid yanks.
(, Fri 23 Nov 2007, 15:17, closed)
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