Posted by tealady on November 13, 2004, at 4:56:37
In reply to Please don't fear my screen name..., posted by Mad Jap Poet on November 12, 2004, at 2:08:42
Please excuse the political correctness gone mad and welcome to the board from me as well
...Gee I didn't know "Jap" was a racist term either! First of all I thought Dr Bob didn't like the use of "mad" maybe?
I'm an Aussie from Oz..or is that Ozzie..spelling is not one of my great accomplishments now that I have almost zilch memory and usually hit the wrong keys anyhow, but then I don't care as its not that important :)>
>I may appear and disappear from time to time. I have a habit of doing this lately...just trying to go with the flow of my life...
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yeah I think we all do this to varying degrees..something in common ..hey maybe its normalCan I repeat what TJ said as he put it so well...
"Let me put it to you thus......a name is but a name provided it is merely a description, and only becomes an offense when it is designed to deliberately slur, marginalise or isolate in one form or another.
Anyway, from one PERSON to another, welcome "
To TJ
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>As you may know us Pommies (english that is for anyone not from Oz) are pretty keen on cricket and one of our long term rivals are pakistan who were known as pakis for years until someone decided it was a racist remark.http://www.blink.org.uk/print.asp?key=2189
The district judge also stated that "Paki" was no more "racialist" than "Pom, Brit, Yank, Aussie or Kiwi". It was not in the more obviously insulting category of such national stereotypes as "Frog" or "Kraut". But Edward Coke, counsel for the DPP, told the high court that even if the chanting merely suggested "our town is better than your town", the implied inferiority was based on its having a Pakistani community and was "racially insulting"WOW ..that implies to me that the your high court is saying Pakistanis are inferior to say Poms???
Maybe being a Jap is supposedly implying inferior somehow too??..Of course it probably has some hidden other meaning which only those living in the US can understand....what is the term again if not Yanks? I've noticed that the meanings are sometimes different or even opposite in the US speak....like one term that is apparently complimentary in the US is an insult here..takes some getting used to :) even after years
I guess maybe some words have a different slant that we cannot hope to comprehend if we don't live in the US? Maybe the "mad Jap" combo has connotations?>As you may know us Pommies (English that is for anyone not from Oz)
Well the ONLY time I'd heard the word Englishman before recently, like this year, was in the nursery rhyme
"Fee Fi Fo Fum I smell the blood of an Englishman" ..so it does conjure up those kinda the "very irritable giant" images..??.
hmmmm that is way more apt anyway when you are on selenium?
But Pommie sounds kinda affectionate and "Englishman" does sound kinda pompous......Oo-oops is that where that word came from?
(I'm not even going to think about where the US one comes from:)Tealady(also a resident of planet earth ... for a while longer... luckily TJ hates flying:)
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