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    Political correctness has led to several changes in language and traditions: 1) The BBC stopped using BC and AD dates and instead uses terminology like "Before Common Era" and "Common Era" to avoid references to Christianity. 2) The European Parliament proposed banning titles like "Miss" and "Mrs." to avoid causing offense with marital status terms. 3) In 2007, Santa Clauses in Sydney, Australia were banned from saying "Ho Ho Ho" because it was deemed too close to a slang term for prostitute and could frighten children or be derogatory to women.

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    Political correctness has led to several changes in language and traditions: 1) The BBC stopped using BC and AD dates and instead uses terminology like "Before Common Era" and "Common Era" to avoid references to Christianity. 2) The European Parliament proposed banning titles like "Miss" and "Mrs." to avoid causing offense with marital status terms. 3) In 2007, Santa Clauses in Sydney, Australia were banned from saying "Ho Ho Ho" because it was deemed too close to a slang term for prostitute and could frighten children or be derogatory to women.

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    Political Correctne SS: Juan Pablo Castellanos Barron

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    Political correctness has led to several changes in language and traditions: 1) The BBC stopped using BC and AD dates and instead uses terminology like "Before Common Era" and "Common Era" to avoid references to Christianity. 2) The European Parliament proposed banning titles like "Miss" and "Mrs." to avoid causing offense with marital status terms. 3) In 2007, Santa Clauses in Sydney, Australia were banned from saying "Ho Ho Ho" because it was deemed too close to a slang term for prostitute and could frighten children or be derogatory to women.

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    POLITICAL

    CORRECTNE
    SS

    JUAN PABLO CASTELLANOS BARRON


    #5 03, 02, 2017 IVB
    English
    POLITICAL CORRCTNESS

    The BBC has dropped the use of the terms Before Christ (BC) and Anno
    Domini (AD) on one of their programmes and decided that the terms 'Before
    Common Era' / 'Common Era' are more appropriate

    The European Parliament introduced proposals to outlaw titles stating marital status
    such as 'Miss' and 'Mrs' so as not to cause offence. It also meant that 'Madame' and
    'Mademoiselle', 'Frau' and 'Fraulein' and 'Senora' and 'Senorita' would be banned.
    In 2007, Santa Clauses in Sydney, Australia, were banned from saying 'Ho Ho Ho'.

    Their employer, the recruitment firm Westaff (that supplies hundreds of Santas
    across Australia), allegedly told all trainees that 'ho ho ho' could frighten children,
    and be derogatory to women. Why ? Because 'Ho Ho Ho' is too close to the
    American (not Australian, mind you) slang for prostitute.

    Gillingham fans had begun to fondly offer celery to their goalkeeper, Big Fat Jim
    Stannard. The club, however, decided that celery could result in health and safety
    issues inside the ground. As a result, fans were subjected to celery searches with the
    ultimate sanction for possession of celery allegedly being a life ban.

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