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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 15, 2009 20:44:18 GMT -5
I think the chick's teeth were more disturbing than her mannerisms/lack of speech.
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Post by Groink on Oct 16, 2009 0:45:09 GMT -5
you're not in trouble .i know you're new to the boards,a lot of our current members weren't around when all the fuss went down.i was just letting everybody know. lol I wonder if some of the offense taken to such terms don't get carried over in the United Kingdom? I guess "Jap" is something only Americans know about because of WWII. I also heard British people use the word "Oriental" to describe East Asians, which is often considered tasteless and borderline offensive here in the States. But apparently it has no offensive connotation whatsoever in Britain. I always just saw it as a shortening of Japanese or Nipponese. Similar to Brit for British or Aussie for Australian or even Yank -- for Yankee/American.
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Post by songbird1 on Oct 17, 2009 16:57:04 GMT -5
She freaks me out.
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Post by milkman's baby on Oct 17, 2009 19:17:40 GMT -5
lol I wonder if some of the offense taken to such terms don't get carried over in the United Kingdom? I guess "Jap" is something only Americans know about because of WWII. I also heard British people use the word "Oriental" to describe East Asians, which is often considered tasteless and borderline offensive here in the States. But apparently it has no offensive connotation whatsoever in Britain. I always just saw it as a shortening of Japanese or Nipponese. Similar to Brit for British or Aussie for Australian or even Yank -- for Yankee/American. Eh, yeah. That's how it should be I guess. But history and social conditions justifiably make certain words that would typically be on the same level, on different levels. Call a white kid a honky and everyone laughs (including the white kid). Call a black you-know-what and see what happens. White people, like Aussies and Brits, don't care what you call them or if you short-form their name because they weren't followed around and harassed with those names during WWII.
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