| Jacob Oost 2005-03-30, 8:13 pm |
| Thoth wrote:
quote:
> Generally speaking, citizens of the U.S. don't mind being called yanks.
Ask a Southerner if they like it. I, for one, hate it. It's
disrespectful. I wouldn't call a British person a Brit or Limey, and I
wouldn't call a French person a Frog.
quote:
> The
> other groups, however, will frequently break your face when you refer to
> them those terms.
Which is silly, because there is no such thing as a Japanese or
Vietnamese or Italian "race," assuming you believed in racialism.
However, it is discriminating along national boundaries, so it's still
disrespectful. Since Japan is really called Nippon by the Japanese,
maybe they don't know what "Jap" means? Maybe they prefer to be called
"Nips"?
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