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Old 09-06-2020, 04:07 AM   #140
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The racism and xenophobia may not have been explicit, but it was just barely implicit
I've read one Blyton, "Island of Adventure". There's one Black character, and if you had a bingo card with racist stereotypes you'd have yelled "Bingo" before finishing the first chapter he appears in.

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VERY well lampooned in parodies like "Five Go Mad in Dorset"
I remember seeing that one, hilarious!
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