Books and outdated language.

When it comes to - for want of a better word - social justice issues it seems like Germany always lags a couple of years behind the US and the UK. In the past couple of years I've seen German bloggers complain about children's books with language that is now considered derogatory but was widely accepted when the books were first published, like Neger, i.e. negro, but the discussion has only now become mainstream with a publisher going through several beloved classics and - with the approval of the writer's descendants - changing some of those words to more acceptable terms.

( Rambling )