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The catalogues are packed with photos of white children playing with toys and other potential Christmas presents.
Swedish campaign group Equalisters, which aims to correct imbalances of ethnic minority and gender representation in media, culture and business, has criticized the findings. It says the brochures fail to reflect diversity in Sweden, where around a fifth of the population now has roots outside of Sweden.
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[url=http://www.thelocal.se/20141110/sweden-in-too-white-toy-story-controversy]SOURCE[/url]
Isn't Sweden a pretty homogenous place relative to a country like America
Now even Sweden is just like America: complaining about the most minute bullshit.
I'm sick of american social justice being applied to non american countries. thinking it can slot in perfectly to every other western country is nothing short of xenophobic in itself.
Isn't this just some irrelevant idiotic group saying shit? Pretty sure you can find idiots like that in every country.
[QUOTE=MrBunneh;46483149]I'm sick of american social justice being applied to non american countries. thinking it can slot in perfectly to every other western country is nothing short of xenophobic in itself.[/QUOTE]
what's particularly american about this?
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sounds to me like you're going out of your way to blame america for something
oh hey
more retards making stuff about race
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jesus christ.
[QUOTE=MrBunneh;46483149]I'm sick of american social justice being applied to non american countries. thinking it can slot in perfectly to every other western country is nothing short of xenophobic in itself.[/QUOTE]
Haha yeah go ahead and keep perpetrating your European-style racism. Go on.
[QUOTE=MrBunneh;46483149]I'm sick of american social justice being applied to non american countries. thinking it can slot in perfectly to every other western country is nothing short of xenophobic in itself.[/QUOTE]
The article is from a Swedish news site.
Also apparently movies in Sweden are given a rating on gender equality. Get your shit together.
God I fucking hate this whiny ass country sometimes. People cry about fucking everything.
[QUOTE=Scot;46483403]Also apparently movies in Sweden are given a rating on gender equality. Get your shit together.[/QUOTE]
They actually aren't at all
Also Sweden has a lot of ethnic diversity, this isn't a bad thing
[QUOTE=.Lain;46483232]what's particularly american about this?
[editline]13th November 2014[/editline]
sounds to me like you're going out of your way to blame america for something[/QUOTE]
I mean the tumblr-esque sjw sort of deal where if something just happens to not have racial inclusion it's racist or misrepresentative or something. while that argument is a legit point in a culturally diverse place like america, it ceases to be so in a country that has had a solely european population for tens of thousands of years.
[QUOTE=Explosions;46483312]Haha yeah go ahead and keep perpetrating your European-style racism. Go on.[/QUOTE]
I'm not racist, the misjustice and murders of black youth in the US per instance (don't get on my dick about this seriously, I'm just using it as an example for relevancy) is quite disgusting. I'm just saying trying to appropriate one countries sense of social representation to another doesn't work if the representation doesn't fit. you wouldn't expect toy articles in japan to feature non-japanese kids, right?
What's wrong with localization?
Just a thought, as a kid I only remember the toys in ads, not the race of the kid playing with the toy.
It's true though. If you wanna properly represent Sweden they should all be middle eastern.
The kind of people who open a catalouge and complain about the kids only being white are the kind of people who look for things to offend them.
They criticized Danish catalogs for the same thing just yesterday. It's ridiculous.
[QUOTE=Ajacks;46483541]What's wrong with localization?
Just a thought, as a kid I only remember the toys in ads, not the race of the kid playing with the toy.[/QUOTE] When I think about it, all toys ads I saw as a kid had white only kids in them.
[QUOTE=pansarkurt;46483606]The kind of people who open a catalouge and complain about the kids only being white are the kind of people who look for things to offend them.[/QUOTE]
Well, if they're a group who specifically work for representation in that kind of thing then they'd probably look through catalogues to check that kind of thing
There is nothing wrong with this at all, all it'll do is make them think about it more and maybe include some more diversity in their next catalogues. They probably will since they company that owns Toys 'R' Us and BR Leksaker in Sweden removed gender segregation in their toy catalogues and stores not vey long ago
I really don't think any non-white person in Sweden would give a shit about this.
[QUOTE=Zovox;46483409]God I fucking hate this whiny ass country sometimes. People cry about fucking everything.[/QUOTE]
Crying over political correctness / social justice seems to be the cool thing to do nowadays. Not just in Sweden, but here, and all over the internet too. Fucking annoying little cunts.
I think most kids dont give a fiddlers fart about what race the kids in the toy catalouge is. This is just a case of parents being terrified that if little anders doesn't see enough black guys he'll grow up to become a neo-nazi.
Why all the whining? All they'd have to do is pick a couple different stock photos for the catalogues
[QUOTE=Pako;46483979]Why all the whining? All they'd have to do is pick a couple different stock photos for the catalogues[/QUOTE]
We're just being offended by how easily offended people are nowadays.
The catalogs were analyzed by the Swedish newspaper Metro, which I would equate to The Sun.
This does not represent the views of the Swedish people or its government.
This is pointless tabloid bullshit.
This is not news.
Sweden is basically if Tumblr was a country
[QUOTE=Explosions;46483312]Haha yeah go ahead and keep perpetrating your European-style racism. Go on.[/QUOTE]
Is European-style racism fancier?
[QUOTE=SweetTea;46315426][video=youtube;v8_7yPocGPg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8_7yPocGPg[/video]
plz since we're all swedes, right[/QUOTE]
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"OH NO, SWEDEN IS MOSTLY FULL OF SWEDISH PEOPLE. WE NEED MORE DIVERSITY DAMNIT. IT'S LITERALLY NAZI GERMANY UP IN HERE!"
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