In the exhibit signs I've written in the I've tried to pay some attention to Political Correctness. But it was on a fairly gross level. And it was in a zoo so there were some extenuating circumstances. For example, I suggested that it was probably not appropriate to write about an animal in the collection we'd named Oreo--since that was such a loaded term to many of our visitors. The animal was black and white, but I was uncomfortable with the name. And I wrote some copy about aardvarks without mentioning South Africa. This was during the heyday of the economic boycotts against South Africa and I thought the politics would interfere with the message of the exhibit. As I recall, I decided that when geopolitical orgin of a part of your collection isn't important to your interpretation, you can exclude those labels on the grounds that inclusion might increase risk of vandalism to your exhibit. Like Robbin, the PC police make me nervous. I want to be sensitive, but the spectre of censorship looms frighteningly. Yet I'm very aware that word choice impacts visitor receptivity to our interpretation--and ultimately to our mission. Martha (who's gone back to graduate school to explore the things you're too busy to think about when you're working) [log in to unmask]