UK raises ‘Mary Poppins’ film age rating over ‘discriminatory language’

Lester Kiewit catches up on the latest world news with Adam Gilchrist.

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Gilchrist reports that the age rating for the 1964 classic ‘Mary Poppins’ has been reclassified.

The film was lifted from a U, which stands for universal, to PG, for parental guidance, due to “discriminatory language”.

British film censors identified that a derogatory term originally used by white Europeans about nomadic people in southern Africa was used to refer to black-faced chimney sweepers.

“[This] exceeds our guidelines,” censors reported.