正德厚生臻于至善。 ·Bias ·prejudice 。discrimination 址 44 2
• Bias • prejudice • discrimination
vords cut more tha脐±球+. swords The pen is mightier than the sword. Words can be used as a shield or a weapon. Language is connected with an ideology.There is a significant interplay of language,power and politics. 2
Words cut more than swords • The pen is mightier than the sword. • Words can be used as a shield or a weapon. • Language is connected with an ideology. There is a significant interplay of language, power and politics
正德厚生臻于至善。 What is Political Correctness? a term which denotes language,ideas,policies,and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational,gender,racial,cultural, sexual orientation,certain other religions,beliefs or ideologies,disability,and age-related contexts,and,as purported by the term,doing so to an excessive extent. The avoidance of forms of expression or actions that exclude,make little of,or insult certain racial,gender,or other identity groups. It covers a wide area in the use of language and concepts and is most evidently at work in a multicultural society. 2
What is Political Correctness? • a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts, and, as purported by the term, doing so to an excessive extent. • The avoidance of forms of expression or actions that exclude, make little of, or insult certain racial, gender, or other identity groups. • It covers a wide area in the use of language and concepts and is most evidently at work in a multicultural society
正德厚生臻于至善。 Motivation To prevent people being offended;to compel everyone to avoid using words or behavior that may upset homosexuals,women,non- whites,the crippled,the stupid,the fat or the ugly. 2
Motivation • To prevent people being offended; to compel everyone to avoid using words or behavior that may upset homosexuals, women, non- whites, the crippled, the stupid, the fat or the ugly
正德厚生臻于至善。 To be less offensive:Examples Gender Race---diversity The underprivileged in various circumstances Chairman---chairperson Black people,nigger-Afro-Handicapped,crippled--- American people differently disabled Deaf---hearing impaired Mankind---human beings Poor---disadvantaged Old people-senior citizens lllegal aliens--- undocumented workers Spinster----single woman Mentally ill---crazy A fat woman---a full- cancer long incurable figured woman illness sexual laborers for the Juvenile delinquents---
To be less offensive: Examples Gender Race---diversity The underprivileged in various circumstances Chairman---chairperson Black people, nigger—Afro- American people Handicapped, crippled--- differently disabled Deaf---hearing impaired Mankind---human beings Poor---disadvantaged Old people—senior citizens Illegal aliens--- undocumented workers Spinster----single woman A fat woman---a fullfigured woman Mentally ill---crazy cancer = long incurable illness sexual laborers for the Japanese troops ---comfort woman Juvenile delinquents--- children at risk