I smiled when visiting Britain, my group and I would get teased about being "colonials" also smiled when a lady in a sh
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gribfritz2 — 12 years ago(June 02, 2013 10:52 PM)
And the dreaded "n-word" comes from a word that means "black." It's all in how you use it, as evidenced by the magical n-word that blacks can freely call each other in triumph but no one else may use it. You'll see similar magic in the homosexual community where there are many words they don't want to be called by others, but freely refer to each other by the very same words.
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pery-1 — 12 years ago(September 06, 2013 12:18 PM)
It was very much a slur in WW!!. Younger people don't have that association. When flip-flops came to Calfornia in the 1950s they were first called "zorries". In the 1960s I heard them called "Jap Flaps" which was heard as a racist slur by older Americans.
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neverthereever — 11 years ago(April 26, 2014 10:12 AM)
In a historical context it wouldn't be surprising if the characters in the movie expressed racial hatred towards the Japanese.
But in days gone by you could actually talk about people from other countries and cultures without it being considered offensive.
It's a Jap sub! Not racist or offensive.
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CanadianBill — 11 years ago(June 29, 2014 02:16 AM)
We want realism in our historical movies but we complain when real actual dialogue of the times like this are in the movie? So which is it folks, you can't have it both ways. Okay, so it's a racial slur, great. Now what? Some of you say it like you'd prefer these movies get censored to your standard of political correctness or something. Sorry, I can't get on board with that.
The fact is, people said "Japs" a lot back in the early 40's. Deal with it. At least we as a society have hopefully learned from it, as you don't see people walking around referring to asians "japs" much anymore, do we? There you go, that's something positive, right?
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Snownoise — 9 years ago(August 30, 2016 08:48 AM)
Who made people believe "Jap" is a racial slur? Was it a random Japanese person in a western society asking not to use "Jap" because it's offensive? I highly doubt about that. One thing is sure that it's one of those "white guilt" thing. It's somehow really wrong to kill Japanese people with atomic bombs while millions of American soldiers killed by Japanese soldiers.
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Dwright1212 — 9 years ago(September 04, 2016 12:03 AM)
Would calling someone a Swede be racist to the Swedish? Would calling someone a Rus be racist towards Russians? Would calling someone a Can be racist to Canadians? Even if you were so thin-skinned to say yes to all of those, you'd still be wrong because nationalism =/= racism.
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