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Sweden: Several birds found to have racist names – now they are being replaced
Friday, February 20, 2015 9:18
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Several birds with racist and offensive names are being replaced in an effort by the Swedish Ornithological Society.
The Swedish Ornithological Society has produced a list of Swedish names of all the world's birds and found the names of several species racist and offensive, TV 4 reports.
There is zigenarfågeln (gypsy-bird), negerfinken (negro-fink) and kafferseglaren (kaffer-sailor) who got new names. In the case of the kaffer-sailor, it has now been named vitgumpsseglare (vitgumps-sailor) because the word kaffer was deemed too offensive …. http://speisa.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/02/sweden-several-birds-found-to-have.html
