TIL The Canadian $100 banknote featured an Asian woman on the back using a microscope. People complained that it was stereotyping Asians as being good at technology. She was replaced with a Caucasian woman, and then more people complained that Caucasians were being favored.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_hundred-dollar_note



Submitted February 11, 2015 at 03:12PM by ch3mistry http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2visdx/til_the_canadian_100_banknote_featured_an_asian/