Not sure, but I'm certain if we started calling her a 'Jap'
rather than Japanese it wouldn't be long before the word Racist was being banded about.
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maiden is filmed before a live studio audience,
Tue 7 Feb 2012, 20:26,
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We don't get riled by being called Brits.
It's just odd how some become seen as insults.
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Mu Dinofiddler,
Tue 7 Feb 2012, 20:28,
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Speak for yourself, it makes me apoplexic
Though "Eng" doesn't sound like much of an insult, thought. "Scot" is just the normal description, "Wel" just sounds daft (which is quite fitting, really), and "Ir" or, even worse, "North" are just rubbish.
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boris the spider,
Tue 7 Feb 2012, 20:32,
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So were English housewives
but are *they* racist? (Well, if you read the comments on the Daily Mail website, yes, very. But that's beside the point.)
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boris the spider,
Tue 7 Feb 2012, 20:30,
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Not just US troops.
The propaganda push of its use was from the nursery to the daily papers.
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Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs,
Tue 7 Feb 2012, 20:40,
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