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→Serious Opposition to Textbooks and Sensitivity Guides
However, even those who support traditional usage of words and terms do not support an end to all sensitivity. Sybil Maimin writes:
However, even those who support traditional usage of words and terms do not support an end to all sensitivity. Sybil Maimin writes:
::'' Ravitch does not call for elimination of bias and sensitivity panels but rather for their work, now behind closed doors, to be open to public view. She believes that teachers or school districts rather than state officials should choose books for the classroom, which would decrease the power of pressure groups and lessen uniformity. She has confidence that “language evolves in response to social change. Lots of words disappear naturally,”'' <ref>http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2003/june03/issue/spot_ravitch.html Education Update</ref>
::'' Ravitch does not call for elimination of bias and sensitivity panels but rather for their work, now behind closed doors, to be open to public view. She believes that teachers or school districts rather than state officials should choose books for the classroom, which would decrease the power of pressure groups and lessen uniformity. She has confidence that “language evolves in response to social change. Lots of words disappear naturally,”'' <ref>http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2003/june03/issue/spot_ravitch.html Education Update</ref>
===Allegedly Banned Words and Thoughts===
Author and historian [[Diane Ravitch]] has documented how far political correctness has intruded into the American educational system by documenting banned words, images and thoughts. In addition to banning the word, the following words are considered inappropriate and therefore banned from usage in modern textbooks when refering to Orientals or the Orient:
::*Exotic
::*Inscrutable
::*Mysterious
::*Orient, Oriental: banned as offensive
::*Sneaky<ref>http://www.freewebs.com/bannedwords/</ref>
The reader may be suprised to learn that the following depictions are banned from US references and textbooks:
::*Asians as very intelligent, excellent scholars
::*Asian Americans with look-alike features for all ages: short, skinny, slanted eyes, wear glasses
::*Asian Americans as a "model minority", repressed, studious, goody-goody
::*Asian Americans as ambitious, hard-working, and competitive
::*Asian Americans as having strong family ties
::*Asian Americans as quiet, polite, concerned with proper form
::*Asian Americans as inscrutable, mysterious, concerned with saving face
::*Asian Americans as frugal, passive, rigid, submissive, unathletic
::*Asian Americans as musical prodigies or class valedictorian
::*Asian Americans unable to speak English or uninvolved in mainstream America
::*Asian Americans working as laundry workers, engineers, waiters, gardeners, health workers
::*Asian Americans living in ethnic neighborhoods
::*Asian Americans as predominantly refugees
::*Asian Americans working in a laundry
::*Asian American males as peasants, coolies, waiters, laundry owners, math students
::*Asian Americans working at vegetable stands
::*Asian American females as doll-like, geisha-girl image, ingratiating to males
::*Asian Americans playing only with toys from the mainstream culture or only with toys from their own culture
::*Chinese people living and working only in Chinatown or in China working in rice fields
::*Asian Americans shown with eyes as single, slanted lines; look alikes; straight black hair with bangs; buck teeth
::*Modern Chinese males wearing pigtails and classes
::*Modern Chinese women wearing high-collared cheong dresses
::*Modern Chinese males with inscrutable grins, with folded or clasped hands or always wearing glasses and looking serious and polite
::*Chinese people who have great food
::*Chinese people who own or run laundries and restaurants
::*Chinese people who love to gamble
::*Chinese people who are cruel
::*Modern Asian Americans wearing dark business suits and glasses
::*Hordes of Japanese with suits and cameras
::*Modern Japanese women wearing kimonos or carrying babies on their backs
::*Japanese people who are law-abiding
::*Japanese people who are great imitators
::*Japanese people who are sneaky
::*Japanese women who are servile and obedient
::*Korean Americans owning or working in fruit markets <ref>http://www.freewebs.com/bannedwords/#IMAGEASIAN</ref>
==Current Usage of Oriental and Related Depictions ==
==Current Usage of Oriental and Related Depictions ==