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by chongli 4623 days ago
Too bad you can't do the same trick with Japanese; it's become politically incorrect (even racist) to use the word "Jap".
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What's amusing is that in Japan many Japanese are totally unaware of the political incorrectness of it. In Japan I sometimes hear people use 'Jap' as slang, in store or product names, or just in normal language by extension of how other countries are abbreviated in english. In a country that is mostly japanese, it just loses its racist power.