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Ray del Mundo
Joined: 16 May 2007
Location: Korea
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 Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: Is Korea racist? Let McGraw-Hill illustrate |
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A friend working in a hagwon noticed a discrepancy between the "international" and "Korean" versions of a textbook. He passed this along. Eye-opening, isn't it?
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silentwhispers
Joined: 24 Mar 2008
Location: Louisville/Atlanta
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject: Re: Is Korea racist? Let McGraw-Hill illustrate |
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| Ray del Mundo wrote: |
A friend working in a hagwon noticed a discrepancy between the "international" and "Korean" versions of a textbook. He passed this along. Eye-opening, isn't it?
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wow, just... wow... that's amazing the lengths they will go...
amazing and pathetic.
But really, no surprise at all. |
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kprrok
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
Location: KC
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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So they put Korean-looking kids instead of Black kids...what's the problem? Doesn't changing a book to fit the local culture seem logical and reasonable to you?
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silentwhispers
Joined: 24 Mar 2008
Location: Louisville/Atlanta
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| kprrok wrote: |
So they put Korean-looking kids instead of Black kids...what's the problem? Doesn't changing a book to fit the local culture seem logical and reasonable to you?
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The thing that irked me was that they changed the Asian receptionist to white.
Why not just leave her Asian and change the black kid? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| The editions are five years apart. Perhaps for the 2003 edition they added some more colour? |
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