Taliban Attack Pakistan School

[Taylor]

I'm so glad a thread about children being massacred has "evolved" into a thread about semantics.

[InsideThePark]

Aren't British people Brits?

 

Saudi Arabians Saudis?

Japanese people Japs.

Hispanic people Spics.

I don't think for a second that you use Paki with any malice but it differs from the other examples you used because of the historical negative association with the term.

[arch stanton]

As someone who lives among many nationalities and ethnicities, I have to admit that "Paki" would rank among the least offensive terms we use. We just don't do it in public forums.

[InsideThePark]

From Wikipedia re: "spic":

"Some in the United States believe that the word is a play on their pronunciation of the English "speak." The Oxford English Dictionary takes spic to be a contraction of the earlier form spiggoty. The oldest known use of "spiggoty" is in 1910 by Wilbur Lawton in Boy Aviators in Nicaragua, or, In League with the Insurgents. Stuart Berg Flexner, in I hear America Talking (1976), favored the explanation that it derives from "no spik Ingles" (or "no spika de Ingles"). These theories follow standard naming practices, which include attacking people according to the foods they eat (see Kraut and Frog) and for their failure to speak a language (see Barbarian and Gringo)."

Sorry.

It's used as a slur to Hispanics but you're right, it's not short for.

I don't believe your apology was sincere.

[DowningRules]

As someone who lives among many nationalities and ethnicities, I have to admit that "Paki" would rank among the least offensive terms we use. We just don't do it in public forums.

 

So, you live in southern California?

[DowningRules]

I'm super duper sorry.

 

I can't believe Calscuf has dodged the 'racist' label in this forum.  It's handed out here like so much candy at Halloween.  (A day which is not observed by JWs, btw).

[LBHalos17]

Other than the typical "Islam is peace, but kill everybody" logic, I thought it was interesting that Pakistan seemed to come-out and DEFEND the Paki-taliban, saying jot was "out-of-towner" talibananas...

 

Also, it is curiously following the current plot of "Homeland" (tho loosely).  Maybe the Pakis will finally grow a backbone against terror.

[tdawg87]

I have a friend from Pakistan and he says they prefer to be called Pakistanisians

Edited December 22, 2014 by tdawg87

[Blarg]

Pakistan is gearing up to hang 500 convicted terrorist that have been through and no longer have any more appeals.

[Schildog]

Wopphil playing the game of his life in this thread. I doff my cap.

Edited December 23, 2014 by Schildog

[Jason]

I think shellback was just too lazy to type out the whole word.

Yep but at least it made for an entertaining thread. I also learned that Paki is a bad word. I went 41 years not knowing this until Tobias pointed it out. 

[halobob]

Random question, is Jew offensive to Jewish people?  I had no idea Paki was a bad word.

[Schildog]

I can't fathom how other cultures regard us as ignorant.

[wopphil]

I can't fathom how other cultures regard us as ignorant.

Every culture/nation/group/people has their own prejudices. Just look at the Asians....the Koreans hate the Chinese, the Vietnamese hate the Koreans, and they ALL hate the Japanese. The middle east is the same way. And I am guessing the French and Polish don't love Germans just yet.

Americans are probably less "ignorant" and more tolerant than most other peoples of the world.

[DowningRules]

Every culture/nation/group/people has their own prejudices. Just look at the Asians....the Koreans hate the Chinese, the Vietnamese hate the Koreans, and they ALL hate the Japanese. The middle east is the same way. And I am guessing the French and Polish don't love Germans just yet.

Americans are probably less "ignorant" and more tolerant than most other peoples of the world.

 

This is more correct than not.  Americans are certainly more cautious about what they say (or at least, who they say what to).  And you will find Americans calling each other out on perceived racial slights more often and more guardedly (and regrettably, more self-righteously, at times) than any other country on the earths.  

 

This forum is proof of that.

[mtangelsfan]

I have experienced no greater racism than when I've been in Europe.  Damn them peeps hate folks who aren't like them.