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oldfatfarang
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I remember when I first arrived in Korea - walking down broken pavements in the wrong side of Pohang city - and thinking: "Heck, I've landed in China."
Everywhere I looked, Oriental-looking people were scuttling along on bikes, wearing long trench-like padded coats, bowing and looking blank faced. And get this: they were all dressed the same, had the same haircuts, and were eating noodles with chopsticks, studying till midnight, and beating students who failed memory tests.
I was disappointed. I thought I'd come to Korea. |
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mc_jc
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I
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| (kind of like how "Paki" isn't offensive in America) |
Around where I'm from in the US, a 'paki' refers to a 'package store', not a pakistani. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:35 am Post subject: |
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| (kind of like how "Paki" isn't offensive in America) |
Around where I'm from in the US, a 'paki' refers to a 'package store', not a pakistani. |
where would that be? and what is a package store? never heard of it. i'm from southern california. is that a northern US/canadian thing? |
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schlotzy
Joined: 10 Mar 2010
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| nukeday wrote: |
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| (kind of like how "Paki" isn't offensive in America) |
Around where I'm from in the US, a 'paki' refers to a 'package store', not a pakistani. |
where would that be? and what is a package store? never heard of it. i'm from southern california. is that a northern US/canadian thing? |
Definitely not Canadian. I'm from Toronto and I'd never say Paki. I think it's still considered pretty offensive by a lot of people. |
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discostu333
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Paki is really offensive where I'm from. |
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YLWRocketMan
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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Definitely not Canadian. I'm from Toronto and I'd never say Paki. I think it's still considered pretty offensive by a lot of people. |
The only time i've heard it used was in Canada. I was in Kelowna, BC and some friends started using that term and i though it was a little offensive. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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ok, says here it's offensive in canada and the UK. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Paki
I don't think it is in America, though. But then again, Pakistanis aren't quite the largish minority as they are in the UK - where "Oriental" isn't considered offensive probably for the same reason. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| The only time i've heard it used was in Canada. I was in Kelowna, BC and some friends started using that term and i though it was a little offensive. |
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| Paki is really offensive where I'm from. |
When I was in high school I was talking to a girl from Pakistan and I used the word Paki. I thought that was proper given Bengali, rather than Bengladeshi is the proper term. It wasn't until 6 months later that I heard the term was racist. 
But she seemed not to even notice. I mean we lived in such a liberal multicultural city that people were used to getting called various things on accident simply because with 190 country's worth of children its pretty hard to keep things straight. Plus we were all talking about where we were from and stuff so its not like anyone was even thinking about being offensive. |
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mc_jc
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I
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It is a type of urban slang that is used a lot in the northeastern US and the mid-Atantic states.
Most of you Americans on this board, being middle-class suburban people, I am not surprised you guys haven't heard of it. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| schlotzy wrote: |
Definitely not Canadian. I'm from Toronto and I'd never say Paki. I think it's still considered pretty offensive by a lot of people. |
The only time i've heard it used was in Canada. I was in Kelowna, BC and some friends started using that term and i though it was a little offensive. |
It's pretty offensive in Western Canada. In rural Alberta it's used quite a bit in the offensive kind of way. However, if some white guy called some big South Asian guy 'paki', he'd better have muscle to back up the insult. |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| mc_jc wrote: |
It is a type of urban slang that is used a lot in the northeastern US and the mid-Atantic states.
Most of you Americans on this board, being middle-class suburban people, I am not surprised you guys haven't heard of it. |
Since we're throwing out assumptions... Sorry no one's heard of your very region specific 1980s young urban lower-class white male slang.  |
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mc_jc
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
Location: C4B- Cp Red Cloud, Area-I
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:18 am Post subject: |
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| I love how people assume I'm white... |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I love how people assume I'm white... |
You're not the guy in the picture?  |
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hondaicivic
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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| I love how people assume I'm white... |
You're not the guy in the picture? |
would you mind if I ask you what's your ethnic heritage? |
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