Why is it that 'blackboards' in schools are not allowed to be referred to as that anymore, yet the majority of traditional blackboards have been replaced with what pupils are told to refer to as 'whiteboards'? Does this not mean that caucasion people are now going to get upset?
2006-09-10 12:21:00 · 15 answers · asked by Lily & Stu Too 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
(1) Don't worry about politically-correct speech - it's all just whitewash.
(2) Even Caucasian is used incorrectly. Caucasian means Indo-European, so it really includes Arabs, Persians, and peoples from the Indian sub-continent. The fair-skinned (European) branch of the Caucasian racial group are the Aryans, but if you use that term, they're going to think that you're a Nazi.
2006-09-10 12:39:36 · answer #1 · answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't believe that it's true that you can't call them blackboards, or that kids are told to call the dry erase boards "whiteboards". Maybe a few people want it to be like this there is no government regulation. Give me a link to show this is true if it is. Personally, the word "caucasion" upsets me. "White" is so much more direct.
2006-09-10 12:31:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is news to me. When did we stop calling blackboards black? That's what they are (except the green ones). Just like the whiteboards are white. What else would you call them? Marker boards? That's just silly.
2006-09-10 12:23:54 · answer #3 · answered by spunk113 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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2016-09-30 13:35:51 · answer #4 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the people making all the rules about Political Correctness are in fact nerdy little anoraks who work in local government departments. Their sole purpose in life is to see how much, we the public, can tolerate their nasty, twisted, schemes.
Your example is further proof of British bureaucracy, gone stark ravin' bonkers!! When they've run out of all things that contain the word "black" (apparently ba ba BLACK sheep can no longer be sung in primary schools)...when they've exhausted the black option, they'll probably turn to the word "Brown", as being another racial slur. The "Brownies" will suffer, as will the term "Browned-off". "Gravy Browning" will from hereon, be known as Gravy darkener, "Brown Sauce" would be known as, "the other ketchup", and so on....Now where did i put my golly wog?....heheheh!!
2006-09-10 12:50:22 · answer #5 · answered by Bont11 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, a blackboard is a blackboard and a whiteboard is a whiteboard. Keep in mind, every thing that is PC now will be un PC in the future. Negro was considered better than "en I ge ge e are". Then colored was better than negro, then black was better than colored, then African American was better than black, before you know it African American will be bad. Everyone is crazy.
2006-09-10 12:37:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
With all the wars, famine and suffering going on in the world, THIS is what bothers you? Oh brother! As long as the kids in school are getting an education, what difference does it make?
2006-09-10 12:49:06 · answer #7 · answered by Terisu 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
black board is not called so becoz of it's colour but to denote a blank/black mind, over which a teacher can write anything, that is teach anything and fill that blank with knowledge...........it has hidden meaning
2006-09-10 12:34:08 · answer #8 · answered by watermelon 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I call them chalkboards and dry erase boards. That seems fairly accurate, don't you think?
2006-09-10 12:25:51 · answer #9 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Aren't they called instructional boards anyway? Or something that stupid?
2006-09-10 12:36:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋