Promoting Political Correctness

One eminent English writer George Bernard Shaw wrote a play entitled Pygmalion, which says Professor Higgins taught a flower-selling girl named Elizabeth Doolittle to speak English just like a duchess. This was a marvelous achievement of the professor who could change a street girl into a decent lady who earlier spoke cockney dialect, and now she would have a chance to be a duchess if only elegant language could significantly change one’s life. Whereas Prof. Higgins boasted of being a successful professor in teaching a cockney speaker to become an eloquent speaker of standard British English, the student, on the other hand, vehemently opposed what the professor did to her. What she objected to was that he changed her linguistically, which did not mean she became a duchess who could marry a duke of high socio-economic position.