Troublesome Toys
Ok, back to the toy catalog for a minute. I just glanced over to an open page with some dolls on it (for a dollhouse), and one family is labelled as "Family Affair- Caucasian" and the other is labelled as "Family Affair- Ethnic." The Caucasian as you can guess is white, the Ethnic however... what could they be? Because "Ethnic" could refer to anyone, it could be another white family, an asian family a native american family... Nope, it's a black family. That just makes no sense. By not even acknowledging what enthnicity the family is supposed to represent they might as well be saying "if they're not white, who cares what they are!" I can just imagine the writers of the catalog sitting there being like "hmm, would it be offensive to call them black? We have a fancy word to say white. Hm, let's just say 'Ethnic'!" It also just makes it sound like an after thought like "well we made a white family, and this other family can just represent everyone else." Anyways, it's a little ridiculous. I think I'm done with my toy reports.
Posted by lib at October 30, 2005 08:00 PM