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This is despite Yorkshire County Cricket Club's admission that Azeem was the victim of racial harassment and bullying.
 
I don't think I have any idea what the slur in question is. If anyone wants to DM it to me? I admit my curiosity is getting the better of me and I'd hate for it to be a word like the one you guys use for cigarettes (I.E., I don't want to accidentally use a slur I don't know is a slur in the UK).
 
It's Paki.

The wilfully disingenuous will say it's no different to "Brit" or "Aussie" but it obviously is. In the 80s and early/mid 90s it was shorthand for anyone of subcontinental descent, and not in a nice way.

Anyone saying that now is a cunt, it's very simple.
 
Probably because of my age and where I grew up, I'm not sure there's a word that makes me angrier to hear than that word. In no reality is it 'banter' for a white person to say that to a south Asian person.
 
Cheers, Dan (and the three who DM'd me).

Imagine the closest analogue over here is the response you'd get by calling anyone who looks Latino/Latina "Mexican". Anywho, glad it's not a word I'd likely stumble into without meaning to.
 
I've worked on teams largely made up of people of Asian descent for most of my life, there's been a lot of banter in that time but if ever that word had been used I'd expect the person using it to be sacked immediately. It crosses a line and is totally unacceptable.
 
Alan said:
Cheers, Dan (and the three who DM'd me).

Imagine the closest analogue over here is the response you'd get by calling anyone who looks Latino/Latina "Mexican". Anywho, glad it's not a word I'd likely stumble into without meaning to.
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Your example seems to be one of ignorance/lack of education. Using the term Dan is describing isn't that, it's to be downright insulting. The connotation being that the person is inferior.

Was very casually used when I was a kid, only really done so these days by the like minded to each other
 
Alan said:
Cheers, Dan (and the three who DM'd me).

Imagine the closest analogue over here is the response you'd get by calling anyone who looks Latino/Latina "Mexican". Anywho, glad it's not a word I'd likely stumble into without meaning to.
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Not really. "Mexican" isn't insulting to actual Mexicans.

The P-word is universally insulting and used exclusively by racists.
 
Tony Towner said:
Your example seems to be one of ignorance/lack of education. Using the term Dan is describing isn't that, it's to be downright insulting. The connotation being that the person is inferior.

Was very casually used when I was a kid, only really done so these days by the like minded to each other
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Bizarre as it is, I'd very much liken "Mexican" as a slur over here given what it means to the average American. It is used as a term to illustrate illegality, laziness, etc, all the stereotypes associated. People are generally smart enough to avoid the S word ("Spick", if you're curious), so unfortunately the legitimate nationality has become a stand-in.

In a very real sense, to call someone "Mexican" in the United States is to say that they "don't belong here".

Sad state of affairs, and, like I said, not really a one-to-one comparison.
 
Be curious to hear DWF's thoughts as he lives much closer to the border than I do. He probably has good perspective on it.
 
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