It largely has to do with WW2 and the propaganda that was used. When the term "Jap" was used it was usually in conjunction with with pictures showing apelike caricatures and words like dirty, yellow and treacherous. Like "******", it's usually a term of derision and disrespect.
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It largely has to do with WW2 and the propaganda that was used. When the term "Jap" was used it was usually in conjunction with with pictures showing apelike caricatures and words like dirty, yellow and treacherous. Like "******", it's usually a term of derision and disrespect.
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Intill now id never realised "japs" was offencive I can understand "nips" thing is terms like "jerry" have been used in ww2 for popaganda against the germans with images of killing babies and such like but im yet to find a german who finds the term jerrys offensive. Maybe we sound look at this another way what nicknames did out enemies have for us in WW2? Bet they would ahve been offensive to. IrwinQuote:
Could someone explain why jap is derogative to the Japanese? I just thought it was slang for the people like Brits is for the British and yanks is for the Americans. Irwin
It largely has to do with WW2 and the propaganda that was used. When the term "Jap" was used it was usually in conjunction with with pictures showing apelike caricatures and words like dirty, yellow and treacherous. Like "******", it's usually a term of derision and disrespect.
I'd have to brush up on my obsolete Japanese a bit. There was "kichiku beihei" which means something like dirty American devil and I'm sure there were loads more. Americans were commonly depicted as devils or trolls in Japanese propaganda of the time.
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Elmer: They had (and have...and right wingers in Japan still use) lots of racist terms for all foreigners. Some of the worst are reserved for Koreans and Chinese, but westerners have a number assigned to them. Some are pretty subtle. Most aren't. And amusingly enough, some of the younger generation use them without any idea of just how insulting they can be...
Irwin: Most commonwealth types I've met have expressed similar feelings and ideas about the term when it came up in conversation. I'm pretty sure it's a matter of context. Most commonwealth countries didn't have Japanese internment camps during the war. The West coast of the US had a lot of Japanese immigrants and their kids (US citizens), and they were pretty successful in the fishing and farming industries. There are a lot of complicated nuances, but there was a lot of anti-Japanese resentment in some communities long before the war. A lot of farmers & fishermen benefited economically (to a great degree) when the camps started up and people had to sell pennies on the dollar, or made handshake deals that were never honored. People tended to use the terms interchangeably between enemy soldiers and Americans of the same ancestry. That's why the Japanese communities on the West coast, for the most part, feel the same way about those words that people of African or Hispanic descent feel about the more common racial slurs heard today. If your grandmother, or someone in your circle of friends and acquaintances had been held in a concentration camp, you might feel similarly. The UK never had those camps, so the term carries less punch there.
Elmer: They had (and have...and right wingers in Japan still use) lots of racist terms for all foreigners. Some of the worst are reserved for Koreans and Chinese, but westerners have a number assigned to them. Some are pretty subtle. Most aren't. And amusingly enough, some of the younger generation use them without any idea of just how insulting they can be...
Irwin: Most commonwealth types I've met have expressed similar feelings and ideas about the term when it came up in conversation. I'm pretty sure it's a matter of context. Most commonwealth countries didn't have Japanese internment camps during the war. The West coast of the US had a lot of Japanese immigrants and their kids (US citizens), and they were pretty successful in the fishing and farming industries. There are a lot of complicated nuances, but there was a lot of anti-Japanese resentment in some communities long before the war. A lot of farmers & fishermen benefited economically (to a great degree) when the camps started up and people had to sell pennies on the dollar, or made handshake deals that were never honored. People tended to use the terms interchangeably between enemy soldiers and Americans of the same ancestry. That's why the Japanese communities on the West coast, for the most part, feel the same way about those words that people of African or Hispanic descent feel about the more common racial slurs heard today. If your grandmother, or someone in your circle of friends and acquaintances had been held in a concentration camp, you might feel similarly. The UK never had those camps, so the term carries less punch there.
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Irwin, Slang to a degree is an "inside joke" for everyone with the same language.
Racial slurs are integrated with a language's slang so you would have to "be there" to understand it.
Therefore, when you call someone in germany a "Jerry", they would have no clue as to what's going on. Call someone of german descent here in the states a "Jerry" and he just might be offended.
My case however, I've been called worse things than "Jap" so I'm not so touchie about it, but I do want to let people know there are others that may be very sensitive about that.
Racial slurs are integrated with a language's slang so you would have to "be there" to understand it.
Therefore, when you call someone in germany a "Jerry", they would have no clue as to what's going on. Call someone of german descent here in the states a "Jerry" and he just might be offended.
My case however, I've been called worse things than "Jap" so I'm not so touchie about it, but I do want to let people know there are others that may be very sensitive about that.
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