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Originally Posted by chachava
Can you explain WHY it isn't factually correct? They are both Japanese and a bastard if that situation is true...
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Because Jap is a derogatory term. There is no time that is isn't derogatory.
Bastard is also a derogatory term. There is no time nice way to use it in a sentence and not offend the target.
Gaijin is not a derogatory term. It can be used in a derogatory way, of course, just as words like "bald", "short", "black" and any other adjectives can be. The fact that it also has neutral connotations means that it is in a different catagory from "Jap".
From wiki:
The official three-letter and two-letter international country codes (ISO 3166) for Japan are JPN and JP, while the international language codes (ISO 639) for Japanese are jpn and ja (not jp).
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Originally Posted by chachava
Anyway, 'jap' is a shortened form of 'Japanese'... surely it's double standards to say that is racist and 'gaijin', the shortened form of 'gaikokujin', is ok?
Unless the word 'Japanese' is racist of course...
Like I said previously, I don't like the use of the word 'Jap' but it does make me wonder how one can be fine and the other be a bad word
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It's not a double standard, that's just the way language is. Of course different countries and different people treat different words differently, but I am just to my American ears, Jap is a term soaked in so much anti-Japanese sentiment, it cannot be anything other than derogatory. "gaijin" doesn't have that problem.