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Why don't you just try Google?

or www.wikipedia.com

I am but I was just wunderin if you guys could help?


Sorry geeezz



Love Jess xoxo

You would get more help if you did not include racial slurs in your post.

Thanx guys I know you didnt get much time to actually help but I have answered all da questions anyway so dont waste your time!!!


Thanx Love Jess xoxox

1. There are no approximates in Japan. They are banned from entering the country. (The Japanese are very precise you know.)

2. Refer to answer 1.

3. 1000 standard 26/6 staples each day plus 1 bread roll. No butter!

4. Vicodin.

5. Ikebana is the art of arranging small huts.

6. I would name mine Hiro and Yoshi.

7. Hmmm, I think I would go with.... Heaposhitta.

Any more homework you need done?

I heard many Ausies were racist. This Jess must be one of them.

CI, I'm confused. Are you and Craven talking about Jess' use of "Jap"?

Here it is not really considered to be a racist term. It is on a par with us calling the English "Pom's" or you guys "Yank's"

Aussies like to shorten things.

Many people use the word Jap without it being intended as a racial slur. I wouldn't go so far as to say the use here was racist but that does not change the fact that Jap is a well known racial slur that is defined as such by most dictionaries.

Yank and yankee are words with a dissimilar history in that the disparaging use was in the past, and then the term of abuse became adopted with pride. These days it is not as value-laden at all.

Jap, however, is infrequently used except in a slur and is usually understood to be such.

But yes, many people just use it naively as an abbreviation and yes its use as a racial slur is primarily American and then British.

Fair'nuff.

Hope nobody gets offended by my answers.

"I swear occifer, it was a joke!"

No worries mate. << now that is an insult cause Hogan's daft and has become, deservedly or not, an American image of Aussies.

Yes, and just when we all thought we might be getting past it....




Steve, bloody, Irwin turns up.

Hey! I understand if Jess was calling them a jap to their face then that would be a problem but it is just a shortened version of Japanese. Do other people get angry if Americans call us Aussies??? I dont think so we are PROUd to be called Aussies!!!!!!

Adrian, Your answers aren't offensive at all.

LOL

But hey, it has its downsides but you guys are a truley loved people.

I've lived in 10 countries and on average Aussies have seemed to be the most popular.

The funny thing is, the reasons most people have are reasons that mildly irritate you all.

Things like "cute accent" and such, the affection is sincere but I think it comes across to Aussies as patronizing.

You guys can't get a break. To forever be defined by exotic fauna, accent that is only "funny" in the same way that the American accent is "funny" to the unaccustomed ear (doesn't really exist) and a couple of oddly personalitied cross-over celebrities.

Feekin' hillarious.

The croc theme is funny too. God pop culture is lame.

Bri, Aussie (as far as I know) was never predominantly a racial slur.

I wasn't faulting Jess for anything, just a heads up on the way it would most likely be received.

But ultimately this is similar to saying it to someone's face. c.i. is a Japanese American who was put in a concentration camp for "Japs" during the period in which the racial slur was coined.

My comment was a heads up that to some people, the word is not a mere abbreviation and not an indictment of motives.

When WWII started, many white business people put up signs that said, "No Japs." Close to end of the war, some Japanese American soldiers that just returned from service in Italy and France walked into a bar, and the bartender said, "no Japs are served here." It just so happened that there were some Texans, the Lost battalion, in the bar who were just rescued by the Japanese American battalion. They bought the drinks for the Japanese American soldiers. Nobody said anything.

Craven, not all Aussies are irritated by it.

I have a mate who went to England for a 3 month holiday. He's a city boy from Sydney but before he went he bought an Akubra hat, a Dryzabone jacket and a pair of Blundstone boots. (Typical stockman outfit.)
He wore the stuff the WHOLE time he was over there. Reckons the chicks loved it. Told everybody he came from Bourke about 8 hours west of here. Did the whole "howzitgo'n mate" thing. Funny guy.

LOL

ahh, I need to go back to Oz someday.