> >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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