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| Topic | Do europeans really understand the n word? |
| AsucaHayashi 12/07/18 3:00:29 PM #44: | it's kinda funny because here we have our own version of the word(albeit without the long winded history) to describe people of middle-eastern origin and just like black people, middle eastern people throw it around freely from time to time while others that don't belong in the same group are immediately perceived with racist intentions behind the usage. dunno if swedes have their own version of what i'm talking about but as i'm sure they would agree, the racial hot seat in this corner of the world are middle-easterners instead of blacks. so my theory is that the n-word is much easier to say here because there are next to no people or black culture to be afraid of while "that word to describe middle-easterners" is treated as the n-word over there but again without the long history behind it. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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