Political Correctness Help
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MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
I guess some people might think so, but I didn't see it that way. I don't actually remember noticing his race. Come to think of it, I was probably looking away from the screen at the time and only heard his voice.
Still, even if I had noticed his race I doubt it would have registered like that. I think the stereotype associating the love of fried chicken (and watermelon) with black people is much stronger in other parts of the country. Here in the south, the same food preferences are too widespread to regardless of race.
Still, even if I had noticed his race I doubt it would have registered like that. I think the stereotype associating the love of fried chicken (and watermelon) with black people is much stronger in other parts of the country. Here in the south, the same food preferences are too widespread to regardless of race.
warpus
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Do promotional photos that Universities and other institutions use including at least 1 black person count, or are you looking for more linguistic examples?
So there are a couple commercials, and the others feature a white dude accidentally eating the bones and panicking. So I didn't think it was at first. But on second viewing, I could see how people would get offended. If it was something like chicken and waffles, then it would probably be more offensive.
As someone who lived in the South for more than a few years, I agree with your second part--we had fried chicken on a near-weekly basis at my house, never thought twice about it.
sophie
Break My Heart
It made me feel quite uncomfortable. That being said the whole campaign is ridiculously idiotic. Both the "black character" and "white character" versions are equally inane and unwatchable.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
Ultimately if the best you've got to mock an entire race about is it's preferred method of poultry preparation and possibly melon choice, it's not very convincing.
Furiey
No Longer Just Lurking
Yes blackboard is now chalkboard, whiteboard is wipe board and brainstorm is now word showers.
Winner
Diverse in Unity
PC behaviour subsumes linguistic choice (primarily), but also all kinds of other things. I am not defining it mostly because I want people to come up with things they think count as PC.
warpus
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I can't really think of many examples here in Canada that wouldn't have been mentioned already, but what about "First Nations" ? It's the Canadian version of "Native American"
Winner
Diverse in Unity
Yeah.
Canada is interesting, actually, since it is the first country I know of to declare itself officially "multicultural", so one would expect more PC speech interventions and more official enforcement of PC speech codes.
First Nations is an interesting phrase, just as "visible minorities". The whole history about Eskimo/Inuit renaming is also quite funny.
What about some PC terms for "Eastern European" migrants, are there any?
What about some PC terms for "Eastern European" migrants, are there any?
You guys might count as wogs I guess. Croats and Serbs do.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
I dont understand why people use such terms?
warpus
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We like being polite here in Canada, or at least we pretend to, but we're also kinda chill, so we will go a bit out of our way to try not to offend people, but not tooo much.. generally speaking. It's a somewhat diverse and spread out country though, so it's not really fair to generalize.. but I just don't see too much PCness happening on a day to day basis here.
Winner said:What about some PC terms for "Eastern European" migrants, are there any?
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Winner
Diverse in Unity
To co-exist better? It's similar to not telling people what you really thing about them all the time - people who do that are generally consider insane.
My thesis is that political correctness reflects a new set of diversity taboos that have developed as result of the growing multicultural nature of most Western societies.
I.e., the more diverse and inclsuive a society, the greater the likelihood of its evolving PC terms.
Or maybe you just don't notice them any more. I certainly didn't until I did a little survey of terms we use in Czech an was astonished by how many PC terms are now common.
Borachio
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I'm not sure what you mean by funny.
"Eskimo" = "snowshoe netter", iirc. (Though I've heard it said that it mean "flesh eater" I'm sure) And was used to designate many peoples.
While Inuit was the Inuit's word for themselves. And the Yupik call themselves Yupik.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
Deity
I'm sure they were sitting around deciding what to call themselves and being such humble guys it was like "You pick, no you pick, no you pick" ad infinitum.
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