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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South AfricaThat surprised me a bit when I went to SA. I heard about 'coloured' people there. I just assumed it would be a few people who had one black parent and one white. I was wrong. There really are a lot of people who are known as, including by themselves, as coloured. Their ancestors were blacks, whites and Malays (brought over as cheap labour).
In the bad old days of apartheid they weren't as free as whites but not as repressed as blacks. They still had to live in their own district though, and still do today as far as I could tell.
(, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 20:42, Reply)
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