![]() There are also still references to the “sweet tang of rape,” “blithering women” not being able to do a man’s job, and homosexuality being a “stubborn disability.” ![]() ![]() Outdated allusions to certain racial groups still exist, however, such as Bond’s terms for East Asians and the spy’s unfavorable opinions of Oddjob, Goldfinger’s Korean henchman. The most common replacement used is “Black person” or “Black man,” but the texts entirely abandon racial characterizations in some cases. The revised texts have almost entirely done away with the N-word, which Fleming used to refer to Black people when he wrote in the 1950s and 1960s. “Following Ian’s approach,” the publisher said in a statement, The Telegraph reported, “we looked at the instances of several racial terms across the books and removed a number of individual words or else swapped them for terms that are more accepted today but in keeping with the period in which the books were written.”
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