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[bestillmyheart]

Um, you guys, don't get me wrong but...is the word 'chinks', 'japs' or 'viets' offensive?!?!?! drowsyphoenix just showed me this really old thread about Michelle Branch, and they're all like, it's a racist slur and shit like that.

I mean honestly. All the Asians here calls themselves a chink or viet or whatever. I'm Chinese, and i call myself a chink. I actually don't know anyone here that finds that offensive, so is it seen as offensive in America?

Just curious :D

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[mustbebunnies.livejournal.com]

Though I must confess to having used "Japs" in my notes for my class on WWII this past semester. But that was pretty much purely for the purposes of taking notes on the fly...gotta write fast, lol!

LOL! I say, 'Japs', 'Chinks', 'Viets' all the time, thinking it was like an abbreviation for 'Japanese', 'Chinese' and 'Vietnamese' ya know? ]

This is interesting ;)