Tuesday, February 06, 2007
When is a pig not a pig?
When cultures collide with political correctness, that's when...
At "News.com.au", Rowan Callick reports this:
"ON February 18, the Chinese world will usher in the new year of an animal, but its identity will be suppressed.
A billion people will view China's - and the world's - most-watched annual television show, the Chinese New Year's Eve variety spectacular, but the viewers will be no wiser as to which animal is involved.
The Chinese Government has decreed that the Year of the Pig will be celebrated with the least possible offence to the country's 21 million Muslims, for whom the porker is a dirty, offensive animal whose flesh must not be eaten.
So this year, China Central TV's big event will be more like a politically correct school Christmas pageant in which participants must not mention Jesus for fear of being seen as biased."
