Why?Why is the image not Banting and Best. Who was the moron that decided to build a PC fantasy around insulin. There were four men involved in discovering insulin. That is the reality. Ottawa PC bureaucrats quit trying to re-write history with phoney crap.
Confusing image not explained well in articleI think the reason so many commenters say "she doesn't look Asian to me" is because the image attached to the article is the revised one. "Harrison declined to provide a copy of the original image ... which was a test design only and never made it into circulation."
Look into it yourself.I was offended when I read this article. I then did a google search for the old bill, and superimposed the new one with the old and the proportions and features of the woman are EXACTLY the same in both. The only difference is the background, and ink colour. The Star won't allow me to post links to illustrate this so take a second to prove it for yourself. I do think racism is a real issue.
Look Into The Hype!I looked up the "old" bill from Nov 2011 & the features and proportions of the woman are the same. Don't take my word for it: Old bill: New bill: w=618&h=408&crop=1 This is hype but I do wish that Canada would represent its "cultural mosaic" philosophy
回复 扳大轮：quote from toronto star:
“Some have concerns that the researcher appears to be Asian,” says a 2009 report commissioned by the bank from The Strategic Counsel, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.
“Some believe that it presents a stereotype of Asians excelling in technology and/or the sciences. Others feel that an Asian should not be the only ethnicity represented on the banknotes. Other ethnicities should also be shown.”
A few even said the yellow-brown colour of the $100 banknote reinforced the perception the woman was Asian, and “racialized” the note.
The bank immediately ordered the image redrawn, imposing what a spokesman called a “neutral ethnicity” for the woman scientist who, now stripped of her “Asian” features, appears on the circulating note. Her light features appear to be Caucasian.
“The original image was not designed or intended to be a person of a particular ethnic origin,” bank spokesman Jeremy Harrison said in an interview, citing policy that eschews depictions of ethnic groups on banknotes.
“But obviously when we got into focus groups, there was some thought the image appeared to represent a particular ethnic group, so modifications were made.”
Harrison declined to provide a copy of the original image, produced by a design team led by Jorge Peral of the Canadian Bank Note Co., which was a test design only and never made it into circulation.
Nor would he indicate what specific changes were made to the woman researcher’s image to give her a so-called “neutral ethnicity.” He said the images were “composites” rather than depicting any specific individual.
A spokesperson for the Chinese Canadian National Council slammed the bank on Friday for bending to racism.
“The Bank of Canada apparently took seriously ... racist comments and feedback from the focus groups and withdrew the image,” said May Lui, interim executive director of the group’s Toronto chapter.
“That was upsetting simply because of the history and longevity of Chinese-Canadians in this country.”
Lui demanded the bank “acknowledge their error in caving to the racist feedback.”
Victor Wong, the group’s national executive director, called on the bank to amend its policy of not depicting visible minorities.
“You’re erasing all of us,” he said from Toronto. “Your default then is an image with Caucasian features.”
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1243067--image-of-asian-looking-woman-banned-from-new-100-bills-after-complaintshttp://www.thestar.com/business/article/1243067--image-of-asian-looking-woman-banned-from-new-100-bills-after-complaints
平全会的XX， 别人说的是亚洲人（至少包括日本人，韩国人，东南亚人），它跳出来，现在变成全体华人同其他族裔的对立。再说这些被询问的focus groups，其中包括平全会在内的各种少数族裔的团体，黑人，印巴，等等。
央行弃用印有亚洲妇女头像的百元新钞