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'hindi girl?' how ignorant!!!

posted 11 years ago by Insomnia1991
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Noticed on imdb and in credits the little Indian girl who tells Annie to wear a helmet is credited as hindi girl. It's either Hindu girl or Indian girl, hindi is the language spoken in India. . . Amongst another 300 different languages and dialects. Honestly, poor research or maybe just plain ignorance.

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[–] kinaiscute 11 years ago

I thought it was ignorant that they felt the need to point that out anyways. The little girl didnt even have an accent!! They could have called her the girl at the motel or little girl or anything besides Hindi girl!!! That's a little offensive IMO.

[–] DaliParton 11 years ago

You know it could simply have been a typo. Those happen in credits once in a while. Hindi will pass most english spell-checkers and if the person responsible for the copy doesn't really know anything about india, it could easily slip by. Especially since the i key is right next to the u key.

[–] FCA1975 11 years ago

I agree with all 3 of you. Hindi is the language, not the ethnicity. The fact that they could have just said "girl at motel", would have been more PC. And it could have been a typo (the "i" is right by the "u"). Just imagine the uproar if a credit had said Jew/Jewish/Yiddish girl.

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[–] drrclavan 11 years ago

WHO effing cares!? No politically correct nonsense on imdb please.

[–] jacksakes 11 years ago

Yeah I agree, I can't stand this PC nonsense. I'm going to start to get aggressive on these boards whenever someone gets "offended" by stupid things like this. I know people look for things like this just to stir trouble.

I want things to go back to the way they were. I'm Asian and my mother and I always referred to ourselves as Oriental. One day I had Caucasian people arguing with me that we are not Oriental, because Oriental is an object.

Stop this BS please, I beg of you. It adds to the already ridiculousness of this world.

[–] Synetech 11 years ago

I'm Asian

Along with most (~⅔) of the world since Asia includes China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Russia, and Japan; seven of the top ten most populous countries in the world. Throw in the Middle-East, Afghanistan, the rest of the Soviet countries, and the rest of the Oriental countries, and suddenly, most of the world is Asian.

I had Caucasian people arguing with me that we are not Oriental, because Oriental is an object.

What‽ What the heck does that even mean?

Supposedly the reason that “Oriental” is (supposed to be) bad is because it presumes a Euro-centric world. But then, why is “Oriental” bad but “Middle-Eastern” or “Western” okay? Hypocrisy and political-correctness shouldn’t mix, yet they seem to go hand-in-hand. Besides, other languages can call things whatever they want, but of course English words are going to be Euro-centric; what’s wrong with that?

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