Multicultural Crayons

[APugsLife]

Stupid or sensible?

http://www.teachersparadise.com/c/crayola-multicultural-crayons-large-8pk-p-18391.html

[jomifl]

Glad to see the ol' redskins aint bin fergotten.

[aelmpvw]

hang on i'll go and ask a three year old

[joggerjayne]

How many people's skin is actually white ???

Either it's an insulting stereotype of Caucasians to portray us as bright white.

Or it only covers albinos, and most Caucasians are excluded altogether.

Either way, insulting and discriminatory to people like me.

[lozzer50]

nothing wrong with them

[EcclesCake]

Makes perfect sense to me.

[mccfluff]

is there essex girl fake tan?

[B00]

Not quite sure who these are marketed at?

Serious artists who need authentic (?) colours for skin tones, mind you, which serious artists use crayons?

Kids won't give a stuff, they'll still be snapped into pieces and hoovered up along with other less dubiously named crayons.

[2sp_]

Crayola make hundreds of colours, this is just another way of putting a small batch together and selling them.

My 2 year old is only interested in how they taste. The 4 year old colours people green, blue, yellow, red, brown, pink, purple (and the list goes on).

[joggerjayne]

"Essex Girl Tan" and "Answerbank Orange" are the same crayon.

[Peaspeculiars]

I never knew children had to be so exact in their doodles as to match skin tone perfectly to their subject.
My 'people' drawings used to be in bright blue or green, no wonder I never became an artist.
A bit daft if you ask me, but if there's a market for them, why not?

[ludwig]

It's a stupid name. They should just be called flesh tone crayons or similar (even though there's a pure white and pure black and I don't think anyone is either of those colours).

[Baldric]

More PC marketing claptrap!

[Svejk]

they should have a 'shiny' one for the pm.

[wolf63]

Puggy ~ what were you looking for when you found the crayons?

[ludwig]

Thinking about it, multicultural ones would be good. They could have a Sikh one with a little turban on it.

[Peaspeculiars]

Multicultural Crayons....

http://oi58.tinypic.com/2iqh72q.jpg

[emmie]

load of poppycock

[APugsLife]

I was looking for whiteboard paint, stumbled across these. Agree with 2sp - whats wrong with colouring people in blue, purple, pink/whatever crayon is left in the pot?