Foreign media: "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tales accused of multiple discrimination
Foreign media: "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty" fairy tales accused of multiple discrimination
2023-03-06
Recently, British media reported that the publisher Penguin Publishing Group is re-examining classic fairy tales including "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty", "handsome prince", "pretty princess", the age of villains and love at first sight, etc. Concepts are being questioned.
According to industry insiders, the social status of princes and princesses may cause class discrimination; villains usually appear as old people, suspected of age discrimination; the protagonists are all blond-haired and blue-eyed Caucasians, lacking racial diversity; Make children feel that beauty is something that deserves people's attention.
In addition, the character's first-sighted presumption of gender pronouns is also a problem. For example, when the princess met the prince for the first time, the pronoun used was "man" (man). In fact, neutral pronouns should be preferred. These problems make the characters and plots of these classic fairy tales "outdated or harmful". However, some experts said, "Normalizing other relationships in the book will not affect the development of the story."
Previously, many works of the well-known British children's literature writer Roald Dahl (Roald Dahl) have also been changed, and words such as "fat" and "black" have been changed to more neutral words. Many of Dahl's works are also suspected of racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-feminism, and many of them have been deleted or modified. The matter has sparked controversy in the UK, where Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spoken out against the move to alter the books.
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