Posted by grumbler on November 1st, 2008 — Posted in Racism, Seo, The World Today
HSBC stepped on many people’s toes when they launched a set of adverts about cultures. They irritated the Mexicans when a European went to Latin America and found a lack of space, they irritated the Chinese with the European eating the Eel, and they irritated the Maltese with the wedding favors adverts where the guests take the presents! Needless to say some adverts were barely shown…. the number of complaints received was high. They stepped on peoples toes. Their idea was to try to reduce the cultural gap but with the fact that they were actually oblivious to the true cultural differences - they messed up big time.
They took cultural traditions and (possibly without intending too) made fun of cultural differences. Would that not also fall under racism?
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Posted by grumbler on June 29th, 2008 — Posted in Government Issues, Lamentations, Political Correctness, Politics, Racism, Religion, Strange But True, The World Today
I thought that freedom of speech was a basic human right but apparently there are exceptions to every rule.
Rules have been passed against people saying what they think on T-shirts as it may cause annoyance or inconvenience to some people!
They will soon tell me that I am not allowed my Carper Diem on my blog as it might annoy or be inconvenient to some people.
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Posted by grumbler on July 22nd, 2007 — Posted in Political Correctness, Racism
A father ordered his daughter killed because she had an affair with a man. In other words - for having a boyfriend.
Apparently it was ok to rape and kill his daughter in the name of honour than to let her have a partner. Pretty Sick.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6907838.stm
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Posted by grumbler on June 3rd, 2007 — Posted in Lamentations, Racism
I don’t mind watching American movies though I generally prefer? British films. What I cannot abide is a mixture in one film / movie. More so when it is supposedly? an educational program.
Brilliant Baby seems to have just got this entirely confused. It seems to have been made by an American company for the English market. They have a whole series of “edutainment” films. Their idea of making the film for the British Market is to have a British narrator.? Excuse me, but that alone? does not make it suitable for the British market.
They use American children with their Americanisms. They indicate that 4th July is a national holiday, except that it is only a holiday in the USA. It is almost unheard of in Europe. They speak of Pumpkin Pie as though everyone knows it, yet is? something that is hardly known in the western world. I think the biggest error of all is when they speak of Autumn but write Fall. Excellent way to confuse children.
I can hardly believe they managed to pick up so many awards. Has no-one of the bodies dishing out the awards actually noticed the discrepancies? Perhaps the awards should be taken with a pinch of salt.
I am not saying that it could not have worked. In fact they are reasonably well laid out. They have just mixed up whether to be a British production or American.
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Posted by grumbler on May 28th, 2007 — Posted in Lamentations, Political Correctness, Racism, The World Today
Let’s Ban Heterosexuals! Let us also get legislation to allow us to do so!
You read correctly. A pub in Australia has been legally granted the ability to ban heterosexuals from their pub.
I would love to see a pub being allowed to ban homosexuals from a pub! Not that it really makes a difference to me as I hardly ever frequent pubs, but I thought we were living in a politically correct world where sauce for the goose was also sauce for the gander. But apparently sauce for the gander is not also sauce for the goose!
Oh and the other point…. how do they intend to identify sexuality?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6697469.stm
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