политкорректность в учебниках

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Статья (англ.) о политкорректности и ошибках в школьных учебниках.

Например, в новом учебнике экономики половые органы статуй, стоящих у входа в нью-йорскую биржу, прикрыли набедренными повязками:

The cover of "Economics," a high school textbook due to enter city schools next year, sports a doctored photo of the New York Stock Exchange's landmark exterior.

With a pair of loincloths strategically inserted into the picture, publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston draped the private parts of the two heroic male figures — Agriculture and Science, by name.

Или, например, из фотографии супругов Кюри вырезали Пьера:

The famous 1896 picture of husband-and-wife scientists Marie and Pierre Curie experimenting with radioactivity in their Paris lab was reproduced in Holt's "SciencePlus: Technology and Society." But it was radically cropped to purge Pierre, who shared a 1903 Nobel Prize with his wife.

Holt's Blake said Marie "was a famous scientist in her own right" and that "some of her most important work took place after her husband died."

И много ещё такого там.

Comments

[talash.livejournal.com]

A long time ago, before I was born, my father had been working in the Museum of Religion and Atheism in Lvov. He tells a story from those days, about his boss, who, seeing some ancient Greek statues in the museum pointed to their private parts and asked "what is this." They tried to explain him that these were ancient Greek statues, but he failed to understand and, caliming this was inappropriate ordered their private parts to be cut off with a chainsaw. To my best knowledge, these statues have no private parts till this day.

[capka3m.livejournal.com]

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