Racist grandparentsIt Came From Planet Aylia says: "My husband's mad Auntie Joan accused the man seven doors down of stealing her milk as he was the first black neighbour she had. She doesn't even get her milk delivered." Tell us about casual racism from oldies.
Thanks to Brayn Dedd who suggested this too
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 11:54)
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Pretty muchSome Hong Kong friends of mine translate gwailo literally as "ghost man". It's not really an insult any more, but you wouldn't be using it at a job interview...
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 8:06, 1 reply)
More Singlishtick for Gwai-lo from me, but many Singaporeans I know use the words Ang Mo (literally, Hokkien for red-haired) to describe us whities, whatever our hair colour. They even have a district called Ang Mo Kio, variously described as red tomato or old bridges because the Chinese characters for these sound so similar, and many foreign firms are based there.
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