In this paper I will discuss the concept and the historical origin of political correctness in America and how it managed its way to Great Britain. The discussion will be followed by a section, describing my own research. The main purpose of this investigation is to determine if "political correctness" exists in Great Britain and if there are differences between newspapers and magazines.
In 1990 and 1991 the political correctness debates started in the USA. These debates received great attention in the media as a series of articles in Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, the New York Times, Time, the Village Voice, and Atlantic Monthly was written. It was also featured in numerous magazine covers and nationwide talk shows on TV. (c.f. Calhoun 2001: 1337). Due to this great popularity it has been a "'household word' in Anglophone North America since the early 1990" (Auer 2004: 3). Nonetheless it is very hard to define.
The terms "politically correct" and "political correctness" came from the Left movement, where it was used ironically to describe people who were too orthodox. Now it is often used by the Right to describe the Left. Its meaning has also been blurred by the mass media. The stems of the concept are most likely situated in the social movement culture of the late sixties. Important movements are "The American Civil Rights movement", "The Women's Liberation" and "The Gay and Lesbian Liberation". Political correctness came to Great Britain shortly after it boomed in the US. Its development was similar, but on a much lower scale.
My own research showed that there were more occurrences of words with a –man suffix in newspapers than in magazines. The most surprising fact was, that there was not even one word with the suffix –person. I had to restrict research area to the suffixes of –man, –woman and –person, otherwise it would have gone beyond the scope of my paper.
Keywords: political correctness, politische Korrektheit, Diskriminierung, Vorurteile,
Nietzsches Denkweg
Theologie - Darwinismus - Nihilismus
Rezension zum Buch von Edith Düsing
Frau Prof. Edith Düsing, die im deutschsprachigen Raum zu den besten Nietzsche-Kennern gehört, hat ein umfangreiches Buch veröffentlicht, welches in das Denken jenes Philosophen einführt, dessen Prophezeiungen über den Werteverfall mittlerweile Realität geworden sind .
Von Matthias Schäppi
Nietzsche – ein Posthumphilosoph
Abbildung in dieser Leseprobe nicht enthalten
Nietzsche ist weit über die Philosophie hinaus eine der faszinierendsten und zugleich problematischsten Figuren der deutschen Geistesgeschichte: ganz grundsätzlich, weil er wesentliche Konventionen und Denkweisen der europäischen Kultur in Frage stellt; und speziell für die Literaturwissenschaft wegen seiner Grenzgängerei (als Autor) zwischen Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Dichtung.
„Erst das Übermorgen gehört mir. Einige werden posthum geboren.“, schrieb der Philosoph in der Schrift Ecce Homo. Sein Genie bestand im Wesentlichen im Aufsuchen von Trostgründen nachdem er Gott für tot erklärt hatte. Nietzsche hat allerdings keine neuen Weltanschauungs ideen hervorgebracht. Man erkennt immer mehr, dass sein Genie nicht in der Produktion neuer Gedanken lag, sondern dass er an den Gedanken seiner Umwelt tief gelitten hat. Er hat für diese Leiden die hinreißenden Töne seines „ Zarathustra “ gefunden. Er wurde zum Dichter der neuen (nihilistischen) Weltanschauung; die Hymnen auf den „Übermenschen“ sind die persönliche, die dichterische Antwort auf die Fragen und Erkenntnisse der neueren Naturwissenschaft.
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