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Mixed Message
pop star JAMELIA, on the Loose Women panel today, said "You're not supposed to say Mixed Race anymore -the correct term is Dual Heritage". We're you aware of this?
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my mother is malaysian & dad is british. i was called *** in mainly in school, not heard it so much in my adult life - a couple of times throwing people out the pub i'd get called a p*ki *** or other such charming terms that wouldn't pass the ab censor
one of the things i really hate is my colour being associated with being dirty - being called a dirty little p*ki is something i vividly remember, there was a park on the way home from school & i'd stop to play on the swings & some older kids would shout that at me & shake the swings till i fell off, i was and am a stubborn git & would hold on for dear life, my knees still have the scars.
i heard that again recently - an asian man had come into work to deliver something & asked to use the loo & the receptionist said to me, i hate those dirt p*ki's using the loos. i told her exactly what i thought of that.
my mother had it the worst, living in an suburban very white community in the late 70's - there were houses on the street where the occupants wouldn't speak to us, equally though i remember our direct neighbours being lovely. my dads mother, if my mother took her shopping, if she saw any off her friends she would pretend not to know my mother
would you deem any of that offensive, i do?
one of the things i really hate is my colour being associated with being dirty - being called a dirty little p*ki is something i vividly remember, there was a park on the way home from school & i'd stop to play on the swings & some older kids would shout that at me & shake the swings till i fell off, i was and am a stubborn git & would hold on for dear life, my knees still have the scars.
i heard that again recently - an asian man had come into work to deliver something & asked to use the loo & the receptionist said to me, i hate those dirt p*ki's using the loos. i told her exactly what i thought of that.
my mother had it the worst, living in an suburban very white community in the late 70's - there were houses on the street where the occupants wouldn't speak to us, equally though i remember our direct neighbours being lovely. my dads mother, if my mother took her shopping, if she saw any off her friends she would pretend not to know my mother
would you deem any of that offensive, i do?
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///Would it be abusive to state "I am going to the P*ki shop on the corner" knowing full well that the owner was from Pakistan, but you didn't know their name? ///
Why not just say, "I am going to the corner shop"?
Or if the ethnicity of the shop-keeper is of vital importance, "I am going to the corner shop, the one run by the Pakistani family"?
Why not just say, "I am going to the corner shop"?
Or if the ethnicity of the shop-keeper is of vital importance, "I am going to the corner shop, the one run by the Pakistani family"?
Hypognosis
/// It's the smug sense of superiority which gets people down. That's how racial labels began and that is why they should be brought to an end. ///
Oh and this superiority get out clause is used far too often, meaning that we are all equal and no one is superior to any others.
Well I as an Englishman considers myself superior to some who are still living in the dark ages and fee no distaste at chopping a few heads off from time to time.
I hope that you find yourself superior to them also.
/// It's the smug sense of superiority which gets people down. That's how racial labels began and that is why they should be brought to an end. ///
Oh and this superiority get out clause is used far too often, meaning that we are all equal and no one is superior to any others.
Well I as an Englishman considers myself superior to some who are still living in the dark ages and fee no distaste at chopping a few heads off from time to time.
I hope that you find yourself superior to them also.
It's all getting beyond a joke! I think we're all aware of what is and what's not offensive. Personally, I don't find the word coloured offensive. I think mixed race AND dual heritage sounds much worse, whether it is or not. Is black a colour? Yes. Is brown a colour? Yes. Is white a colour? Yes. So they're coloured but so am I!!!! (and please don't correct me on white NOT being a spectrum colour - I am aware of that). I can't keep up with what's "PC" and what isn't. I think most of the time, it's people being outraged on behalf of people who aren't! Rant over.
DTCwordfan
/// Since when has P*ki been the adjective from someone from Pakistan, it is Pakistani, though some would say 'terrorist'. ///
Er Pa*i first 4 letters of Pakistani, ie. shortened version.
/// A Pole is an accepted term from someone from Poland, ///
Only because has been allowed to be accepted by the people from Poland, who haven't gone winging to the PC office calling it to be remove from usage.
/// Since when has P*ki been the adjective from someone from Pakistan, it is Pakistani, though some would say 'terrorist'. ///
Er Pa*i first 4 letters of Pakistani, ie. shortened version.
/// A Pole is an accepted term from someone from Poland, ///
Only because has been allowed to be accepted by the people from Poland, who haven't gone winging to the PC office calling it to be remove from usage.
@AOG
Well, you had to resort to the most extreme example to make your point. For what it's worth the person rinning your corner emporium is similarly superior to terrorists but you conspicuously dodge my point of his being equal to you.
The whole point of Holocaust memorial day was to remind us that hitherto 'civilised' folk who started off by feeling themselves superior to people from neighbouring nations, let alone on basis of skin pigmentation, ended up descending to barbarity on a scale which trumps the medievalists of the present day.
We are all barbaric, given half a chance. What's the current popularity of the death penalty, for example?
Well, you had to resort to the most extreme example to make your point. For what it's worth the person rinning your corner emporium is similarly superior to terrorists but you conspicuously dodge my point of his being equal to you.
The whole point of Holocaust memorial day was to remind us that hitherto 'civilised' folk who started off by feeling themselves superior to people from neighbouring nations, let alone on basis of skin pigmentation, ended up descending to barbarity on a scale which trumps the medievalists of the present day.
We are all barbaric, given half a chance. What's the current popularity of the death penalty, for example?
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