{"id":253,"date":"2003-05-02T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-02T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2003\/05\/02\/regional-bias\/"},"modified":"2003-05-02T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-02T16:32:00","slug":"regional-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2003\/05\/02\/regional-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/25511\">MeFi<\/a>] <a title=\"Los Angeles Times: Tests, textbooks: Only men bake cookies in these parts \" href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/books\/reviews\/cl-et-book28apr28,0,4911708.story?coll=cl-books-reviews\">Los Angeles Times: Tests, textbooks: Only men bake cookies in these parts <\/a>: a review of a book about how textbooks and exams are censored for offensive ideas.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t realised that questions involving mountains might offend people from areas without any.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of the new textbooks that started to come in while I was at school.  In the old ones everyone was called Mary or John, all standard British names.  The new textbooks seemed to feature only children from ethnic minority groups: Asian, Carribean, Chinese, Irish&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> the MeFi comments had <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,6109,936579,00.html\">this link<\/a> to an article showing that this kind of censorship is not only an American phenomenon.  Stupidity gets everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[via MeFi] Los Angeles Times: Tests, textbooks: Only men bake cookies in these parts : a review of a book about how textbooks and exams are censored for offensive ideas. I hadn&#8217;t realised that questions involving mountains might offend people from areas without any. This reminds me of the new textbooks that started to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}