It's not just folk. A friend of mine wrote a play about his locality in the 50's and applied for a grant to help its staging in that locality. He was turned down, not on the grounds of quality, but because the production was not representative of multiculturalism. When he pointed out it was set in the 50's and the locality was not multicultural at the time his point was dismissed. Basically he could have got a grant if he had re-written history!