Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This, unfortunately, is the Zeitgeist, yes. Rather than doing something about society's real problems, the upper classes engage in feel-good PC exercises, such as this, or making a football team change its name, etc. Cheers, Nathan On 20 Jul 2014, at 15:07, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > In your opinion you mean Larry? Do you speak for the people in Spain or > Catalonia or Spanish speaking countries and presume to know what it means > to them or are you viewing through the prism of what you think that some of > the US population considers it means or how you use it? > I just don't get this whole intolerance and sensitivity thing personally. > I always thought of Gilbert and Sullivan as light opera with English style > from the time. I have enjoyed it while being by no means an expert. Shall > we also condemn everything that doesn't fit the current era and political > correctness perhaps? > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 20 July 2014 22:16, Larry Zeitlin via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > >> Richard writes: >> the play(Mikado) is not >> being held in high esteem in the Chinese/Japanese communities. >> - - - >> Well at least few on the LUG now refer to women as "senoritas." That is >> BOTH racist and sexist. >> Larry Z >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.nathansmusings.eu/