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Posted by Mad Jap Poet on November 12, 2004, at 2:08:42
Hi,
For clarification on my screen name..."Jap" I'm not a Jewish American Princess. I'm Japanese-American and decided I needed to redefine a racist term :) Same kind of thing applies to the "Mad" part of my screen name. I'm new here, so I thought it was important to mention that.Here's some more about me. I took many different medications for 12 years and a little over two years ago decided that I needed to follow a different path. I've had many different dianosis, but I consider myself as someone healing from abuses.
My healing involves various alternatives like homeopathy, herbs, poetry and other arts, meditation, yoga and other things that I call "cosmic healing". I feel that the one's spirit/ soul or whatever you call it is connected to the body and also the universe.
I've read about different options in alternative medicine, but I'm really interested in talking with others who have tried things out. I'm also here because I am close to many people who take meds and am interested in learning more about various ways of combining meds and supplements (many of my friends are interested in this), especially something that is less expensive.
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...
Mad Jap Poet
Posted by linkadge on November 12, 2004, at 15:54:43
In reply to Please don't fear my screen name..., posted by Mad Jap Poet on November 12, 2004, at 2:08:42
Posted by TeeJay on November 12, 2004, at 18:01:05
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.
I'm Teejay, and I'm a BRIT......i'm sure nobody will be offended by me calling myself a BRIT as your beloved president Bush often refers to us British as BRITS, and quite how someone from Japan caling themself a JAP is any different I really don't know (other than its ok to do something if your american but not from anywhere else but I wont even dream of venturing down that road!!!).
As you may know us pommes (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.
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!Teejay (non intergalactic alien and resident of planet earth)
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:)
Posted by JLx on November 13, 2004, at 9:33:44
In reply to Re: Please don't fear my screen name... TJ.... » Mad Jap Poet, posted by tealady on November 13, 2004, at 4:56:37
I suspect the sensitivity comes from WWII when "Japs" was definitely pejorative. I know that other countries fought them too, but we imprisoned our Japanese-American citizens in internment camps then, and of course, we also dropped two atom bombs on Japan.
Incidentally, my eyes just about bugged out of my head when I heard Pres Bush say "Pakis" a few yeras back because when I was working for CNN.com on their Community Staff, one of our most viciously contentious boards was "Pakistan and India" where "Paki" was a definite "fighting word" that we had strict orders not to allow.
>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
That that term is....? :)
JL
Posted by Toph on November 14, 2004, at 8:21:05
In reply to Please don't fear my screen name..., posted by Mad Jap Poet on November 12, 2004, at 2:08:42
Correct me if I'm wrong, mjp, but didn't Bob merely request that you consider changing your name and not demand that you do so? I think your explanation is sufficient. You may have to repeat yourself in the future if others inquire or object. Diversity is important, sensitivity equally important. One assumes that your name is a statement of ethinic pride or it is a racist slur. We know it is the former, if it were the latter I think the community would deal with it.
-Toph
Posted by Dr. Bob on November 14, 2004, at 14:26:46
In reply to Re: Please don't fear my screen name..., posted by Toph on November 14, 2004, at 8:21:05
> Correct me if I'm wrong, mjp, but didn't Bob merely request that you consider changing your name and not demand that you do so?
Well, I've blocked that name. And I'd like to redirect any further discussion to either Psycho-Babble Social or Psycho-Babble Administration, thanks.
Bob
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