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** Considering the etymology of "nigger", the original version is actually kind of [[Fridge Logic]]-y...

* Sometimes changing cultural standards can leapfrog over attempted Bowdlerization. Many early English translators of ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' tried to disguise the lesbian subtext of one of the sub-plots; however modern readers should have little difficulty [[Ho Yay|putting two and two together]] with the information left in the story (tomboyish woman abandons her fiancee at the altar, flees Paris with her close female friend, they're discovered sharing a room and a bed at a country inn). Translators also removed the part where a character takes hashish and has some rather vivid lusty hallucinations.

* The Oompa-Loompas in ''[[Charlie and The Chocolate Factory]]'' were originally [http://www.roalddahlfans.com/books/charoompa.php a tribe of pygmies from "the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before."] And they get recruited by a rich [[Where the Hell Is Springfield|American/British]] guy to [[Unfortunate Implications|work for food in his overseas private factory]]. Since the seventies, the book ''and'' movie versions that most people know have changed them into being native to the fictional Loompaland, and having "rosy-white" (or orange, in the movie) skin. The book illustrations followed suit. The 2006 movie still set Loompa-Land in [[Darkest Africa]], but had the Oompa-Loompas played by [[Deep Roy]], an Indian.

* The Oompa-Loompas in ''[[Charlie and The Chocolate Factory]]'' were originally [http://www.roalddahlfans.com/books/charoompa.php a tribe of pygmies from "the very deepest and darkest part of the African jungle where no white man had been before."] And they get recruited by a rich [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?|American/British]] guy to [[Unfortunate Implications|work for food in his overseas private factory]]. Since the seventies, the book ''and'' movie versions that most people know have changed them into being native to the fictional Loompaland, and having "rosy-white" (or orange, in the movie) skin. The book illustrations followed suit. The 2006 movie still set Loompa-Land in [[Darkest Africa]], but had the Oompa-Loompas played by [[Deep Roy]], an Indian.

** A matter of opinion. Loompaland seems to be somewhere in the Amazon rain forest, which makes the choice of Deep Roy a lot more reasonable.

* Parodied in [[JK Rowling|J.K. Rowling]]'s ''[[The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Literature)|The Tales of Beedle the Bard]],'' where in his commentaries on the tales, Albus Dumbledore reveals that a witch some centuries ago tried to bowdlerise the eponymous tales to rid them of realistic dread and pro-muggle messages. The result is, for Dumbledore and many child readers, [[Tastes Like Diabetes|nausea-inducing]].