Even Pippi Longstocking Gets Caught Up In Racial Controversy

“In Sweden, Pippi is something more: a national treasure and embodiment of the country’s egalitarian spirit. So when the Swedish national broadcaster announced this fall that it would edit two scenes that it considered offensive in a 1969 television series about Pippi – including one in which she says her father is ‘king of the Negroes,’ using a Swedish word now viewed as a racial slur – it hit a nerve.”

source ArtsJournal http://ift.tt/1pRJhPj

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