atw: Re: Un PC language? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
- From: "Tony Cusack" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 07:05:10 +1000
Hi Bob,
Your counsel is wise but wasted I fear on me - see separate post re UnPC and
Mkt Testing.
Thanks for a very informative reply.
Tony.
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> To avoid these problems, NEVER have rude - sexist - racist
> names for anyone you work with. That way, it won't slip out.
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> Also, as a tech writer, NEVER have silly names for mail
> merges. I remember a story about a bank in England that sent
> out letters to its richest customers. All the letters were
> addressed to Dear <rich bastard>.
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> There is another aspect to the name you used. If the
> "somewhat unpopular senior female and ethnically Indian
> manager" is not from the south of India
> - Mysore is south - then there may be an insult in there that
> you may not have realised.
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> If she is Punjabi, then calling her a 'Bangalore Beauty' or a
> 'Mysore Beauty' could be seen as an insult on geographical
> and subcultural terms - Bangalore and Mysore are in the south
> and their food is quite different, their dress styles are
> quite different, everything is quite different, which means
> not like ours, so horrid.
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> If she is not beautiful, she may be insulted because several
> Miss India and Miss World types have come from Bangalore.
> Bangalore ladies take the 'Bangalore Beauty' tag in their
> stride. An ex-Miss India runs a cake shop with her mother
> (nicknamed Mother India) in Brigade Road, Bangalore. I think
> she tolerates the tag because it is probably good for her
> business. By the way, I recommend the cake shop on MG Road.
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> Hi all,
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> there is a somewhat unpopular senior female and ethnically
> Indian manager here at Glum Australia. The other day in a
> meeting I momentarily forgot her name and referred to her as
> "the eyesore from Mysore". There was a mixed but muted
> reaction at the time. But now I'm worried that I might have
> been sexist or racist. Perhaps I'm just being alarmist. What
> do you think?
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> rgds,
> Tony.
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