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RE: Capt Duffy!
Posted by: Steve Cooper ()
Date: May 07, 2001 04:58PM

<HTML>Boy, we\\\'re getting sensitive. Jap is a shortened version of Japanese and is about as offensive as people calling me \\\"Steve\\\" instead of my proper name of \\\"Stephen\\\" This is as opposed to the word \\\"Gaigen\\\" which the Japanese use for all foreigners, which translates as barbarian.
Krauts was a name based on the German love of sourkraut. Judging from some of the posts on this board, a better name might have been \\\"Becks\\\" ;-). Compare this to the standard American nickname of Yankee. Ignoring for the moment the insult that any Son of the South would take at being called Yankee, the name comes from a Dutch insult to the English settlers, who called them \\\"John Cheese\\\" . Kind of a silly insult and frankly, calling an enemy \\\"shreaded, pickeled cabbage\\\" is kind of weak.
I worry a lot more about people forgetting just what the NAZI\\\'s and the Imperial Japanese were than someone being upset about mild names for them. Political Correctness is too often used to hide the truth.</HTML>

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Jap subs off Red Sea and Mozambique Nonny 05/03/2001 03:32PM
RE: Jap subs off Red Sea and Mozambique Antonio Veiga 05/03/2001 06:20PM
RE: Jap subs off Red Sea and Mozambique Yuri IL\'IN 05/03/2001 09:27PM
RE: Jap subs off Red Sea and Mozambique Yuri IL\'IN 05/03/2001 09:40PM
please don\'t call them jap Dave McQueen 05/04/2001 01:23PM
Is \&quot;Nipponese\&quot; acceptable to you? Nip- . 05/04/2001 03:03PM
RE: please don\\\'t call them jap Capt. George W. Duffy 05/07/2001 02:10PM
RE: Capt Duffy! kurt 05/07/2001 04:15PM
RE: Capt Duffy! Steve Cooper 05/07/2001 04:58PM
RE: Capt Duffy! kurt 05/07/2001 05:58PM
RE: Capt Duffy! Takeo 05/08/2001 02:09PM
RE: Capt Duffy! Werner Frank 05/09/2001 03:05AM
RE: Capt Duffy! Yuri IL\'IN 05/08/2001 01:26PM
Thats a shame Capt Duffy Dave McQueen 05/08/2001 08:34AM
RE: please don\\\\\\\'t call them jap Takeo 05/08/2001 02:04PM
RE: please don\\\\\\\'t call them jap Pat 05/08/2001 02:53PM
RE: Avast! John Griffiths 05/08/2001 03:34PM
RE: Avast! pat 05/08/2001 09:16PM
RE: Avast! Raimer Bruns 05/09/2001 12:28AM
RE: Avast! Pat John Griffiths 05/09/2001 04:10PM
RE: Avast! Pat pat 05/11/2001 03:08PM
RE: please don\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t call them jap Rainer Bruns 05/08/2001 05:28PM
RE: please dont pik on the Capt Andreas 05/09/2001 04:30PM
RE: please dont pik on the Capt CHOPPER 05/09/2001 09:19PM
RE: please dont pik on the Capt Takeo 05/09/2001 10:05PM
slang terms Craig McLean 05/10/2001 04:36PM


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