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by r_singh 2893 days ago
It might be interesting to know that the Sanskrit word "desi" itself just means country
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Many words starting with n and with gs in them are just color descriptions. Shortened versions of Japanese and Pakistani are offensive in some countries but not others. The Thai word for Indian is “visitor” as in “not from here, will go home soon”. Plenty of words with innocuous meanings pick up offensive meanings.