The word 'Jap'
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foster1234 — 19 years ago(November 12, 2006 08:11 PM)
To the OP, and pretty much everyone
SO WHAT
I know The posters on these boards don't think THEY use racial slurs, but they do, they think them,
This is a movie that takes place 2 wks after Pearl Harbor, in 1941. Nowadays its popular to take Japans side in WWII. Back then Americans called the Japanese, Japs, Nips, and Slants. Thats the way it was. History nor movies are politically correct(nor should they be rewritten to be so). A term to Americas dishonor brought about since the 1990s
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rickamortis — 16 years ago(January 25, 2010 06:58 PM)
Even more disturbing than the Bataan Death March, were Unit 731, and the Hell Ships that the Imperial Japanese Navy used to transport prisoners. That is some truly fu
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forchatting — 15 years ago(August 26, 2010 02:22 PM)
Yes, I agree. Wartime propaganda used it to create a common enemy, and undermine them with ridicule or derision.
And since it was so ingrained, it is only those from that generation that still use the term (with an accepting wince from their younger friends/family) - people since understand it has become derogatory. -
trickymutha — 18 years ago(April 08, 2007 09:45 PM)
It's a racial/bigoted slur for sure, my Dad (American) was in WWII and he told me this term was used by U.S. sailors in a deragatory fashion. I do think, however, that racism is institutional and bigotry is personal- i.e.- Ty Cobb was a bigot, baseball (before 1947) as an institution was racist.
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photoseller — 19 years ago(December 19, 2006 01:30 PM)
Jap can be an insult depending how it is used and by whom, same with Jew, both are just shorter versions of the complete word, but in the right (or wrong) hands they can both be used as hateful slang., there were of course worse terms and words used to describe the Japanese after Dec. 7th 1941 and for many years after the war, now America Japan, Germany, England, Italy, are all Allies, at one time or another they were all enemies of the U.S., time tends to heal old wounds (well, in most cases anyway)
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superfly-38 — 19 years ago(January 03, 2007 09:57 PM)
I totally agree, its all in the context. In Australia there is a football stadium called beep BROWN STADIUM" it was named after a guy whose nickname was beep and his last name was Brown. One person in the town wanted to have the name changed, etc cos he found it offensive, it was too bad cos the guy who had been nicknamed beep didnt mind at all and he was a dark skinned guy. Mind you the same guy who wanted the stadium changed also wanted to have the name "Coon Cheese" changed too. lololol. Im not a racist person, i have friends and have had partners from all kinds of different races, it is all in the context of how something is said.
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safeinsanity — 19 years ago(January 10, 2007 08:13 AM)
Everytime I hear the word "Jap" I start laughing because I automatically think of this movie and John Belushi.
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junk-799 — 19 years ago(February 09, 2007 04:48 AM)
Everytime I hear JAP, I think of a series of joke books called "Truly Tasteless Jokes part IX" JAP to me stands for Jewish American Princess. Seriously, though WWII was a horrible war and as most of tend to do, we slip to the level of name calling to try to make sense of what is going on in the world. It is not that I don't like Iraqi's, but Sand n-er's, camel jockey's, rag heads, towel heads, etc. make me feel a little bit better about George sending 3000+ troops to an early grave.
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ex250 — 14 years ago(June 15, 2011 05:45 PM)
Should I hate to Brits in all endearments for calling Americans "Yanks".
I have a few friends who become outright livid if they hear someone from a foreign country refer to the US as "The States." It's like, "Don't they know it's the
United
States?"
It's all I can do to not laugh in their face.
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