Staff at a coffee shop in Glasgow refused to serve a customer who had ordered a 'black coffee', believing it to be ‘racist.’ He wasn’t served until he changed his order to 'coffee without milk'. Around the world we have reports of the word ‘black’ becoming emotionally charged and politically correct or incorrect depending upon one’s point of view
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Правда ли это - сказать трудно, но вполне может и быть. Это цитировано во многих местах на интернете, вот цитата с конкретным местом в Глазго. Статью по всей видимости сняли, может т.к. уже давно это было.
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Sep 23 2004
Shari Low
MITCHELL LIBRARY IN GLASGOW
THE world is going mad in its abuse of political correctness. Staff at the coffee shop in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow last week allegedly refused to serve a customer who had ordered a 'black coffee', claiming that it was a racist phrase - he would only get his cuppa if he used the terminology 'coffee without milk'. I wonder how he managed to ask for white sugar?
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