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Originally Posted by HarryT
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It's right that modern editions of these books should be appropriately edited for today's multicultural British society, just as in the US the "Hardy Boys" and "Nancy Drew" series were.
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Speaking of Nancy:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...?utm_hp_ref=tw
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That original heroine, though, is a far cry from the well-bred '50s-style debutante who appears in the ubiquitous yellow-spined volumes on bookstore shelves today. Back in the '30s, she was sarcastic, sometimes hot-headed. She carried a gun and drove a fabulous roadster with abandon -- not merely "as fast as the law allowed." She second-guessed herself, imperfect as anyone else, but could get herself out of dangerous scrapes alone, if need be.
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The problem with modernization is where to stop.
And the orthodoxy of one era invariably becomes the "disgusting attitudes that must be exterminated" of the next.
I hope to live long enough to see the kids of the millenials decry the "intolerance and conformism" and "casual racist condescencion" of the PC era.
