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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@May 24 2005, 12:05 AM
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@May 23 2005, 03:50 PM
She didn't like Jap though, I know that.
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So she doesn't understand why Nip is offensive but doesn't like "Jap".
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Yes.
Would you be offended if someone called you a "Can"? Like I said, that's how she saw it. She'd never even heard the term growing up in Japan so I guess it was hard for her to be offended by something so obviously dumb.
"Jap", though, she knew that and she knew it was meant as a racist insult and therefore would have had a problem with it.
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Sorry I don't get this at all.
But using your Can-Canada analogy, that seriously sounds exactly like a Jap-Japan argument. I just don't understand how Nip is more like Can than Jap is. [/b][/quote]
They call it Nippon.
I'm not an expert in what Japanese people do and do not think is racist, I was just passing on what one Japanese person told me, and what she told me is that the word "Nip" doesn't offend her because she had never heard of it.
"Jap" is a racist insult no matter where it comes from or what my ex-girlfriend thinks of the word "Nip".