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Originally posted by TheyCallMeBruce@Aug 24 2005, 05:44 PM
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@Aug 25 2005, 12:40 AM
Maybe not your area since it applies to japan, but why is it racist to call a japanese person a nib, I remember my japanese friend used to go on and on about it, but I never understood what it means?
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My white friends used to think it would be funny to call me nib. I had to correct inform them that I'm not japanese, and that they're dumbasses lol. I believe Nib was like a short form of Nippon...which is Japan in japanese (I think, someone correct me). So...I don't know why it's offensive to japanese people (any japanese know this?). I would think being called "jap" would spark that sort of emotion far more than "nib."
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If you had been buying "Sgt. Fury And His Howling Commandos" comic books in the 1960's you'd know that its "nip" and not "nib," a shortening of Nippon obviously.
It was a derogatory slang term used by Americans to describe Japanese during WWII.
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Sorry cow, I'm not quite that old
