Lee Love on thu 27 mar 03
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> Rather, I had refered to the 'market' by the term it was
> usually called by the people in it.
FYI: I assure you that economic references using the term "Jap" are equally
offensive. I'm on a Japanese-American list that has been petitioning Ebay to
stop allowing the use of the term "Jap" in reference to Japanese items for sale
(being 'marketed'.) Ebay has recently (within the last couple weeks) agreed
to stop using offensive terms and/or allowing the sale of offensive items,
related to African-Americans.
Let me give you an example: "Nigger" used in reference to a market is
equally as offensive as if it is used related to a people or a place. Since
W.W.II, Japanese-Americans have seen the usage of the term "Jap" in a similar
way as others see "Nigger", "Chink" or "Gook."
Related to these situations, it isn't so important what _you_ understand
the term to mean, as it is how it is perceived by the majority of people the
term is related to.
We especially need to be careful in these times when a whole
category of people (Arabs and Islamic) are not being treated equally.
--
Lee In Mashiko Ikiru@kami.com
"It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. " -Wendell
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