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Originally Posted by SSJup81
To be honest, I don't see much wrong with the word "negro". I always thought that the term just meant "black" in general. I know if I heard someone use it, I wouldn't view it as its being degrading, just very dated and just shows what time period that person grew up in. My grandmother still uses the term "colored".
Either way, I see where you're coming from.
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Yeah, I've found that the older generations still use derogatory terms - not to be racist, but because it's what they grew up using. I know an older person that still calls people from Asian backgrounds "the Orient." x_x
These days, though, it just carries too many implications and is pretty offensive to the younger generations.
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Originally Posted by JackIsLost
i agree, people do think nigger is the most terrible slur out there. yet it's in music and everyday "gangsta" greeting everybody uses. it's evolved into the unknown to who can and can't use it  |
To me, it's not the unknown. It shouldn't be used.
There's a huge double standard where black people feel that it can be used in the black community, though. I think I'm going to start reading some articles to figure out why, because I can't really say why black people don't find it just as degrading as if a white person were to use it.
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Originally Posted by forgotenmemory
The word negro is used in Spanish...alot, so yeah, I say it often. :P
I kinda feel the difference between the way it is used in the spanish language and the way it's used other times is that The E is enphasized more. :P
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lol yeeeeeah.
I thought "e" was only used with "negroes"? Like plural?
Ugh. I don't know. I don't want to discuss the correct grammar for it. x_x