>From: Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
>Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 00:48:44 +1100
>
>Please snip the name and get you're attributes right: you didn't say
>`(Rant) Note to all Yanks: `Yank' is a non-American term to mean'.
>
Whatever tht paragraph means.
>
> > Just like there's really nothing we can do about the other rude things
> > people from other countries call us like gringo, dabizi, gaijin (though
> > those last two would include Aussies, too.)
>
>Yes, but `other rude'? You aren't telling me you're offended by it?
Yes. I'm telling you I am offended by it. I'm not a Yankee. I don't like
the term even whenit is applied to people from the New England area to which
it most properly applies. If you'd grown up hearing the kind of preducial
statement that word was usually included in that I grew up hearing,you
wouldn't care for the word either. To me, it belongs in the same emotional
category as nigger and spick.
>`Gringo', `dabizi' and `gaijin' are intended to be offensive, aren't they?
Yes. And in my personal experience (other's milage will vary greatly) so is
Yankee.
>Whereas `Yank' is meant in much the same way as [Q:stre:li@n] and
>[O:streili@n] etc. and especially [Q:zi] and [O:zi] etc. I wouldn't mean
>to be rude or offend you or anyone. But if it *really* does, and you can't
>see it for what it is, then I guess if you insist...
>
Sorry, but my father had nasty labels for just about everyone when I was
gorwing up. He's changed alot in recent years, but it had the effect of
making me rather sensative about name calling.
Adam
>Tristan
>
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