can any one tell me how many nursery rhymes have been banned since immigration has escalated?

Question

and do you think its right

Answer 1

The answer of course is NONE. If you want to sing Bah bah black sheep, no-one is stopping you. Trivial incidents get hugely exaggerated in newspapers, who also invent stories to sell papers, regardless of the consequences for community relations. Please stop reading the Sun/Mail/Express!

The golly was dropped, and is widely seen as offensive, but is not banned as such. Personally I think there are bigger issues to get offended by, but they have a point - nowadays gollies go with Black and White minstrels, and the word Coloured - embarassing reminders of a time when non-Whites were expected to know their place in the Empire.

Answer 2

Baa baa black sheep and three little pigs have come under scrutiny due to the fact that it may upset other cultures, of course i don't think they've been banned, just not used as much as other nursery rhymes. I don't know if this has anything to do with the escalation in immigration, But no doubt if i went to live in another country they'd be sympathetic to my feeling too !!

Answer 3

Here in West Yorkshire someone tried to ban the three little piggies from being sung at a concert in case it upset Muslims...that got overturned and the Muslim s were quite happy for it to have been done so because they said basically that it was ridiculous as, although they do not eat pork, there is nothing stopping them from saying the word pig. Once again some PC idiot got it wrong and caused more grief than you would have thought possible...that sort of thing just causes problems between the communities.

Answer 4

This is UK, right?

I don't think we've done that over here. We've changed Thanksgiving at school to a 'multicultural feast', but our nursery rhymes are pretty much ok.

Well, actually if you count Brer Rabbit, I guess 'tar babies' got a run after McCain used the term. Most didn't understand that it wasn't a black person but a 'baby' made of tar as a trap to catch people.

Answer 5

None.

Am getting heartly sick of some of the rubbish being said in relation to immigration. Without immigration people would have less staff in hospitals, care homes etc. We would be paying more tax. Currently most immigrants are net contributors to the state. That means lower taxes for you and me.

Our attitude to people from other nations is increasingly embarrasing and often demonstrates pure ignorance, a lack of decency and rudeness. This is opposite to many of the values I would have traditionally thought of as British and are often reflected in our nursery rhymes.

If a nursery rhyme does demonstrate rudeness or ignornace why not change it.

Answer 6

Yes some schools have stoped kids singing Like
Baa Baa "Black" sheep, and havent you noticed that the Noddy stories have had there caracter Golly removed ( a little black doll ) and in Thomas the Tank the "Fat controler" has a new name
Cmon enough!!

Answer 7

I know some that have changed, like "baa baa black sheep" is now "baa baa woolly sheep". I don't think it's right, well some are... like "catch a tiger by the toe" was once "catch a n****r", and I guess at the time people were pretty put off by that change too.

Answer 8

Too many! The most bizarre incident I heard about was that it was all right to say 'Baa, baa white sheep' or even GREEN sheep but not black sheep.

Answer 9

I am not sure how many but I know of a few.
However, when you read some of the naive self riotous reactions to your question it is no wonder that this pathetic PC is is getting out of hand.

Answer 10

I don't know of any here in the US. I think it would be silly. It seems some people go out of their way to try to find ways for things to be offensive.