An Australian cheese will change its name to have a racist connotation

El gewild Australian cheese “Coon” change your name to “Merry” a rais de una undefeated anti-racism campaign the year passed that considered the term denigrating the aborigines and other dark-skinned people.

The company Saputo, which branch manufactures the famous queso, explained in a communication that with the change of name the brand pretends “Build a culture of acceptance, inclusion and respect wherever all have a sense of belonging”, declared by its Executive Director, Lino Saputo.

The word “coon”, an abbreviation of “Raccoon” (mapache) which surgeo during the era of slavery in the United States, is referred to form peyorativa to the people of the dark skin for tacharlas de holgazanas, asustadizas, y otras characteristicas denigrantes.

Saputo follows the steps of various companies in the world that he exchanged number from the past year, the rise of fortification of anti-racist movement Black lives matter, as the manufacturer of tortillas and syrups for the design Tannie Jemima, owned by Pepsi, representing a stereotypical form of Nancy Green, an African American cook who served as a slave in the XIX Sail.

Two decades of campaign

Saputo’s decision responds to a map that the envoy passed in June the activist aborigen Stephen Hagan, which has been growing for decades, soliciting the number of this queso, first produced in Australia in 1935.

The company decides in a message on its internet portal, which returns to the media of the past year, that the brand is building with this number in honor of Edward William Coon, who patented a technique for making cheese in Philadelphia, in the United States, in 1926, inegaba the relationship with the term peyor for persons of the dark skin.

Pero Hagan recalculated in an article published in The First Nations Telegraph af 2014 in die William Coon-era en ‘n immigrante ruso sin educación que trabajó como obrero y que the patent of the queso fue launched with its number of dies before that this hubiera commenced to commercialize.

Some conquistas

The commercials of the Australian Indians have been logged since the 1st of this year. cambie part of the national anthem to honor his presence in the territory from 60,000 years ago.

Asia, the phrase “Because we are young and free” of the actual Australian national anthem “Advance Australia Fair” (“Avanza Australia Justa”), exchange inPorque somos uno y libres ”to eliminate the reference to the recent creation of the national state of Australia and thus reconstruct the history before colonialism, which aborted the gate for the tierras of the aborigines and a systematic discrimination.

Sondeverbod, the presence of Australian Indians, representing a 3.3% of the population of 25 million residents del país, aún has not been reconciled to the Constitution dating from 1901, it does not mention aborigines or the islands of the Torres Strait as the first inhabitants of the country.

With EFE information

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