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> In the new edition of the 1964 Miss Marple novel A Caribbean Mystery, the amateur detective’s musing that a hotel worker smiling at her has “such lovely white
by rocketbop 4y ago
> In the new edition of the 1964 Miss Marple novel A Caribbean Mystery, the amateur detective’s musing that a hotel worker smiling at her has “such lovely white teeth” has been removed, the newspaper added.
This is absurd, if the reason was to avoid using the term white.
- OscarCunningham 4y agoThe original is based on a stereotype of black people having shining white teeth.
- readthenotes1 4y agoStereotype? Or observation?
- rocketbop 4y agoOh I see, I didn’t realise the character in question was Black. I any case, I think it’s still absurd to change. It’s the character’s observation at the time.
- thiht 4y agoBut in this case it’s about a specific character, is he not allowed to have white teeth?
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